Thursday, September 9, 1976 rHE MICHIGAN DAILY Pae t ine' Thursday, September 9, 1976 ~HE MiCHIGAN DAILY + Vwfi '. i'l ig-P P chigan's intramurals: A veritable cornucopia ENTERS 30TH YEAR: £ oken tutors ace tumblers By RICH LERNER Although Michigan has one of the nation's top inter-collegiate athletic programs, if you are the participatory type rather than spec- tatorial, there is no need to feel left out. The University also offers its students one of the county's most comprehensive recrea- tive sports programs. The Department of Recreational Sports is broken into three com- ponents, club sports, intra-mural sports and informal recreation. The club sports program offers the stu- dents the opportunity to participate in an activity in which they have a special inter- est, wih other students of similar interests. There are 19 different sports clubs, ranging from boxing to folk dancing. Intra-murals are broken down into three categories, men's, women's and co- recreational. Besides traditional sports like touch football, basketball and volley- ball, organized competition is available in sports such as golf, cross-country and water polo. Over the summer, the Department of Re- creational Sports opened two brand new buildings, the Central Campus Building, ad- jacent to Stockwell Hall and the North Campus Building, next doors to Bursley Hall. "With the two new buildings, our facili- ties are the finest in the country," said As- sistant director Ken Nemerovski. With the addition of the two new struc- tures, there are four gyms open to students. The Intra-mural Building on Hoover Street houses two swimming pools, a hardwood gymnasium capable of handling four full- court basketball games, an outdoor Tartan track, handball and squash facilities and rooms for gymnastics, wrestling and the martial arts. The Coliseum, at the corner of Bill and Fift Street, looks like an ordinary warehouse to an unsuspecting passer-by. However, inside are four more basketball courts replete with rubberized Tartan floor and glass backboards. The spanking new central campus build- ing, the pride and joy of the department, is home to two multi-purpose rooms, either four basketball courts, four tennis courts, six volleyball courts or nine badminton courts, depending on time of day, and 11 handball courts, six squash courts, an 1/8 mile jog- ging track, and is connected to the Margaret Bell Pool. The North Campus Building is smaller, with a pool, 2 basketball courts, a track and a weight training room. The Athletic Department, a completely separate entity from the Recreational Sports Department, operates Yost Ice Arena, the Track - Tennis Building and the University Golf Course, Each facility has open hours, however there is a user's fee. Students must pay a $10 membership fee in order to use the Track-Tennis Building. If the great outdoors is more your style than indoor recreation, Ferry Field, Palmer Field, Wines Field are all open to your en- joyment. Just bring a bat and ball, a fris- bee, or nothing at all, just to see who's there, and then join in. By MICHAEL WILSON and Blue gymnasts managed! The Michigan men's gymnas- to qualify for individual honors' tics teams, winners of 11 Big! in the conference meet, an oc- Ten titles in the last 15 years, currence which Loken called, faces what may be a tough job "a rarity in Big Ten competi- of rebuilding this year due to tion." the loss of seven seniors to But it's all in the record graduation, books now, and the WolverinesE Gone from last year's sec- must look toward the future in ond - place Big Ten finishers terms of gymnastic competi-' are such performers as for- tion. The biggest gap fill for mer high bar champion and co- next year is the all-around. The c a p t a i n Carey Culbertson, loss of former conference all- three-time high bar champion around champion Haraley Dan- Bob Daraden, co - captain and ner, to a painful knee injury pommel horse specialist Jer- last year seriously dashed the ome Poynton, co - captain and point total of the Michigan Canadian Olympic candidate team, and losing Leclerc to Pierre Leclerc, floor exercise graduation leaves another slot specialist Randy Sakamoto, to fill. The pressure to find capable to none in the conference. Na- The Big Ten championship people to perform the all- tional AAU second place finish- meet will be held in Minnesota around routines is greater this er Chuck Stillerman returns on March 11 and 12, giving the year due to a rule change. for his final year in floor exer- Gophers an obvious advantage. Starting with the 1976-77 sea- cise. Stillerman never failed to "We'll be hustling to try and son, four all-around men and delight a crowd wherever he take it away from Minnesota," two specialists may enter each performed with his double back Loken said. event, enabling each team to flip stunt. enter six men per event if pos- Other specialists returning /thinclads sible. includes seniors Kurt Golder MIYd However the team limit re- on rings and parallel bar spe- mains at 12, meaning that the vialist Doug Shokes. Juniorsc ect all-arounders must turn in include Bob Creek, and Jon high quality performances in Udell on high bar, and Paul (Continued from Page 8) order for the rule change to McBride and Carl Badger on in the 110 meter high hurdles in benefit their squad's score. pommel horse. the Big Ten outdoors. He also "The purpose (of the rule Sophomores Brian Carey and ran on the 440-yard relay and change) was to te the Godo m an Crn y ar- displayed his awesome speed. all-around," Loken said, with- allel bars and John Corritore Michigan's field events are out losing sight of the special- and Dorian Deaver on pommel weak when compared with the ist program." horse. rest of the team. Only J i m Stokes, who won the pole vault Other all-around prospects Loken expects incoming in the Big Ten indoors, is a con- for Michigan include Ken Mc- freshmen Dave Hirschenson, sistent performer, Neve and Scott Weller, both Tom Nadeau, Ron Tickman and Randy Foss is the Wolver- from Illinois; Al Golden fromI Jim Varilek to provide added ines only shot putter, and has DeWitt, New York; John Hee- talent and depth. Nadeau was been unable to toss the shot nan from Virginia; Mark Bau- taenthanetaeampwas far enough to be effective in tista of Ionia, Michigan, and the Michigan state champion the major meets. Rob Goldy and Len DePue on pommel horse and Loken In the high jump, senior Doug from Elking Park, Pennsyl- labeled floor exercise special- Gibbs and sophomore Pete Run- vania. ists Tickman and Varilek as ning will try to improve on last t i " ' NCAA ring finalist Joe Neuens- At this writing, the future wander and Big Ten vaulting of Danner is still question- champion Richard Bigras. able. The junior's knee re- "It's going to be tough re- portedly hasn't responded to placing the quality gymnasts treatment and Loken express- we've had," said Newt Lo- ed some reservations about ken, ready to plunge into his counting on Danner for this 30th season as head coach. year. "These seven making up But at the same time, the more than half the team's Wolverine mentor has two ex- roster consistently performed cellent prospects in freshmen high caliber routines to to- Fred Rasmusses of Elmhurst, tal more than half the team's Illinois and Doug Zahour, from points." Arlington Heights, Illinois. Lo- Their efforts resulted in a ken has rated both performers 9 and 1 dual meet record and a as "very good" and hopes they second place finish to Minne- can fill some of the all-around sota in the Big Ten champion- holes. Sophomore Nigel Roth- ships by a mere two points. well is expected to lead this Nevertheless, all twelve Maize season's all-around crew. According to Loken, "a great gang of specialists, on each event" should add to the Michi- gan point totals for next sea- son. good prospects for next year. The coach anticipates that Minnesota and Illinois will pro- vide the main competition in the conference. "The Big Ten champion Gophers have all their all - around men back and Illinois with many high caliber performers returning will be very good. year's shaky season. Gibbs lead the team at 6'11", but along with Running, couldn't seem to put good performances back to back. With almost the entire team returning from the Big Ten in- door and outdoor championship team, it looks as if Michigan will once again dominate the conference track season i 1977. TWO STARS GRADUATE Michigan swim team sinks a little I. I' i ti c Led by co captains Scott Ponto on rings and Chuck Ven- tura on pommel horse, the crew of specialists are second [ . I By BILL STIEG Those years of finishing num- ber two are probably all over for the Michigan swim team for a while. No, the Wolverines aren't go- ing to finally topple the power- ful Indiana Hoosiers. What's more likely is that they'll sinkj to somewhere in the middle of the pack. Last season, after his team finished third in the Big Ten. for the second straight year (after 13 seconds in 14 years) Michigan coach Gus Stager said goodbye to two of the finest performers on the team, Don Craine and Tom Szuba. Craine, considered one of the top divers in the country, fin-' ished third in the country last' year at both one and three meters. Szuba, a versatile star, slump- ed somewhat last year but still managed seconds in the Big, Ten's 200-yard backstroke and! 400 individual medley, and a fourth in the 200 IM. He won t l l women's sports keep on improving (Continued from Page 5) The women's gymnasticst tion and express my philosophy team, launched last season be- l to them," he stated. The ex- gan to show some of the pro- perienced mentor stresses aca- mise that many people had demics before competition, hoped to see by the year's end._ team work, honor-system play After only one month of prac-l and proper training . tice under the coaching trio oft The squad, scheduled for Newt Loken, Linda Morten and six home, six away games Bruce Keeshin Michigan took- during the short season which seventh place in the Big Ten runs from Septenr throughl meet which featured eight! Imid-November, en, Yes in a teams. conditioning prograi. o keep As the season wore on, the in shape. Wolverines split a pair of Expected to return from last dual meets, captured a third year's team, which just missed place in the Western Ontario qualifying for the finals in the Invitational tournament and State tournament are Carol a victory in the Northwestern Cocuzza, Karel Pennington, Invitational. Bonnie Schwan, Jamie Spohn, A solid nucleus reurns this Elizabeth Sullivan, Eve Wil- year and Loken reports that liams and Ginny Witter. "several excellent incoming "I see possibly tremendous freshmen will augment the improvement, but not neces- line-up." sarily a better record because Lettermen Ginger Robey, Dot volleyball in every school is Summers, Sandra Burak, Linda improving," reflected Vong. "I Laatsch, Sandy Laatsch, Lisa think that the height, experi- Prokurat, Nancy Kurland, Sue ence, and good play of incom- Revnolds, Sue Stanton and Jill ing freshmen will put us in good Slnter hope to season their rou- stead for the coming season." tines this year. ybr hedqatr (r.trr your headquarters for .. r. ,gi the 400 IM in the 1975 Big Ten's? Craine and Szuba could be! counted on last year to consis- tently score points for Michigan in its dual meets-first place points. With them gone, the Wol- verines almost certainly will not' compile an 11-2 won-lost markI as they did in '75-'76. So who is back to keep Michigan respectable? Gordon Downie, the freestyler from Scotland stands out. Downie, who finished third in the 200 and fourth in the 500 in the Big Ten's, swims for GreatI Britain in international com- petition, including the Olym- pics. Countryman Alan McClatchey swam the 200 butterfly and 400 IM and finished sixth and third, respectively. Ann Arbor's Joe Ba'uer wasI Michigan's best performer in the 100 free, clocking a 47.6 as his best. A steady performer who will return next season is butterflyer John Daly, a sophomore. The Puerto Rico resident finished third in the Big Ten's 200 fly. Eric Peper, a freshman U- from California, stepped in to swim breaststroke for Mich- igan and finished sixth and fourth in the 100 and 200, re- spectively. He also contri- buted to Michigan's fourth place m e d 1 e y relay team, which included Fred Yawger, Peper and Downie. and '76 Olympians. He was a national champion at Michigan and has been a coach here since 1958. Stager, now in is 23rd season as head coach, has a career dual meet record of 144-35-1. His teams have never finished below third in the Big Ten and Michigan's two freestyle relay he has three Big Ten and four teams each finished fifth in the NCAA championships to his Big Ten meet. Szuba, 'Norm credit. He was the youngest man Semchyshen, Bauer and Downie to ever coach the Olympic team, swam the 400 free, while Bauer, leading the U.S. swimmers in Szuba, McClatchey and Downie 1960. combined in the 800. Last season, Michigan padded Michigan's backstroker at 100 Stager's career record with an yards was New Jersey junior Rob Helt. 11-2 mark, losing only to Prince- Despite the graduation of ton and Indiana. The Wolverines superstar Craine, the Wolver- had a lot of depth last year, ines stand okay in the diving which made dual meet victories department with the return of quite common. But a scarcity of freshman Matt Chelich. Che- superstars hurt the team in the lich managed a sixth in the one-meter and an eighth in the tournaments. three-meter. Michigan ended up third in Michigan's diving coach is the the Big Ten's with a 450 score,! reknowned Dick Kimball, who 29 points behind Wisconsin and has coached some great divers,! 29 bin bIndina'saming including 0 1 y m p i c medalist far behind Indiana's amazing Micki King. He was named plat- 765 total. In the NCAA's, Mich- formr diving coach for the '64 igan managed 13th. r ITes H TO GETIFREECIE FOR THE 17TH YEAR 1960 - A Football '76 and That Means the Barrel Is Out Again, With FREE CIDER at TICE'S MEN'S SHOP on Home Game Saturday Mornings. It Also Means Levi Cords, Jeans, and Flannel Shirt Season and TiCe's Has the Biggest Selection in Ann A I -e §§ vanBoven§ FINE CLOTHING AND FURNISHINGS §§ SINCE 1921 §t § 41 4 1 ,. r§ of"§; r § f11 itay . § §§ § Y o r F t e s a d G a d a h e s§oO r S o e o t t Stret §' BICYCLES & ACCESSORIES RALEIGH MOTOBECANE PANASONIC ? MOPEDS CIMATTI-Th Street Legal 12 e "Cty Bike" 20 MPG I