4 SPORTS The Michigan Daily. ..... ...... . ..... - w : Wednesday, February 3, 1982 Page 8 . ..... - - ------------ ----- - - Captain combo leads tumblers By JESSE BARKIN Leaders are crucial to any team. They provide experience,'set examples, and are often responsible for dictating the morale of the squad. A team would consider itself for- tunate to have one person who commands the respect of her peers, but on the Michigan women's gymnastics team, leadership comes in a double dose.. Senior specialists Cindy Shearon and Laurie Miesel combine as co-captains, and are compatible not only in their per- sonalities, but in the way their talents mesh, as well. COACH SHERI Hyatt explained. "They compliment each other on the events. Cindy does the- floor and vault, and Laurie does beam and bars. Together," Hyatt said, "they make one all-arounder. We consider them one person." The pair concurred with Hyatt's obser- vation and calculated that if they were one all-arounder, they, or rather "she," would score in the neighborhood of a 34 or 35, which would make them one of the best. gymnasts in the Big Ten. "We could clone ourselves," Shearon decided. BUT THE TEAM of Shearon and Miesel are perhaps more important as co-captains. The two women provide needed experience, as they are the only seniors on a young 15- member squad. They are the second and third gymnasts ever to compete during all four years at Michigan. "Yeah, we kind of know the ropes," Shearon said as the pair explained that they try to help the younger gymnasts with everything from the adjustment to college life, to handling the disappointment of being left behind from a road trip. "It's really important to keep the team together," Miesel said "We won't do well unless we stay together." She added that she is happy with the team's attitude thus far this season and said, "I think this is the best unit ever at U-M...in Michigan's history." BUT IT WASN'T so easy at the start of the season as many of the younger members went through the unusal freshman-itis. "We helped the younger teammates earlier in the year when they were upset," Miesel said. "Having experience," Shearon elaborated, "we could tell them it would all work out - and it did." ' Hyatt attributed the women's relationship, with their teammates to the respect they are accorded, "and that's why they voted them co-captains," Hyatt said. MIESEL REASONED that their success as co-captains is a direct function of how well they work together. "It's'good with the two of us because if one of us doesn't see something (wrong) the other will. It's really worked out." The seniors agreed that one of the biggest problems the Wolverine women gymnasts have had is a'result of the squad's size. "One of the hardest things for the new girls," Hiesel said, "was trying to make the adjustment of not doing all-around. Most do all-around in high school, but with so many girls here most have to specialize. I tried to explain that its the team that's important." SHEARON IS appreciative of Michigan's depth, but she acknowledges that it creates problems. "It (the team) is huge right now, but the only part I hate is when we have to leave someone on trips." Miesel knows all about being left behind - two weeks ago she was stranded at the Pantree restaurant in Ann Arbor while the gymnastics team was on its way to a meet in Kalamazoo. "I went to the bathroom and they took off," she explained. Miesel said that the team usually travels by bus, but this time there were going in three cars. . "EVERYONE figured she was in another car, so we didn't know she wasn't with us," Shearon continued. "We got to the meet and wondered where she was. I said 'She must be in the bathroom.' Little did we now that she was, only in Ann Azor." Throughout the narration,Ahe co-captains couldn't help laughing. "It was funny," Miesel admitted. "I was laughing as soon as I'd realized (the situation). Both seniors look forward to the rest of their final season at Michigan. "Our short-range goals" Shearon said, "are to win the Big Ten's as a team. Our long range goal is to go to nationals. To go out as a senior in nationals would be great." Personally, Shearon said that she would like to improve on her fifth-place finish in the vault at last year's regionals. MIESEL ECHOED Shearon's team goals and added, "I'd like to place in the beam in Big Tens. I definitely have the potential to; it just matters if I reach it.," Finally, Miesel added, "My long-long- range goal is to do cartwheels when I'm 80." Maybe she will. And if she is, Shearon could well be beside her doing back flips. Blue Lines Yost crowd dead o oBGSU gets rowdy By BARB BARKER THERE'SPLENTY TO watch at a Bowling Green- hockey game, even for those who don't follow hockey. There's a skating bird, for one. The fine-feathered. Falcon mascot hits the ice before each period, arousing school spirit and leading cheers in the student section. There's also the Ealconettes, a group of mini-skirted "precision" figure skaters who offer quality entertain- ment between periods. But the best entertainment in the Bowling Green Ice Arena emanates from none other than the spectators themselves. The spirit and intensity of Falcon hockey fans makes the crowd at Michigan's Yost Ice Arena look like spectators at a chess match. The only between-period entertainment at Yost is the Zaui- boni ice machine. "Take away the band, and that place is dead," was the way Bowling Green Sports Information Director Allan Chamberlin described Yost. No Falcon monopoly Granted, Bowling Green fans have a first-place team to cheer about, but then again the Falcons do not have a monopoly on CCHA crowd spirit and enthusiasm. After a 5-4 loss to Ferris State in the series opener last weekend, Lake Superior State evened the score on Saturday, smashing the Bulldogs, 8-1. When the game was over, Laker fans stoodup and chanted for an encore, refusing to leave the arena until the victorious squad reappeared on the ice. "I've never seen anything like it in college hockey before," said Lake Superior coach Bill Selman. "A demonstration like that ohe is quite a compliment." And it is a compliment which Michigan Wolverine icers never get the pleasure of soaking up. How is it that Michigan, which draws 104,000-plus, frenzied fans every home football Saturday, can be out-spectatored by smaller schools such as Bowling Green and Lake Superior State? Something to do "I've gone to four or five hockey games this year," said one Bowling Green student. "I really didn't care that much about hockey until I came to school. , BG games are really a good time. It's something to do on.a Saturday.night." Indeed, going to a hockey game may' be the only thing to do in SaultSte. Marie or Bowling Green on a Saturday night.. In addition, for both Lake Superior State and Bowling Green, hockey is the big time. For the Falcons, it is the only sport in which they have even a remote shot at the national title. And it is the only opportunity these in stitutions get to take on the big boys '- athletic powers such as Michigan and Notre Dame. But what's the big deal? All three hockey programs draw sizable crowds. In fact, Yos&t Ice Arena with its seating capacity of 8,100, is the largest college ice arena in the nation, let alone the CCHA. The numbers are what bring in money. What difference does the disposition of the fans matter? It makes a big difference to the players and the coaches. "When you work as hard as the boys do," said Selman, "you like to be appreciated. We want our fans to have a good time. For the boys, peer group approval is a very important thing. It also reflects in their play." Michigan coach John Giordano has more than once men- tioned a small or unenthused crowd as a non-factor after a disappointing game. What, then, is the solution-a skating Wolverine, a between-periods leg show? Selman said that it took all- out dedication from the athletes, coaches, and athletic department officials *to build up the Lake Superior State hockey program in the eyes of the spectators. But, of course, the Lakers' hockey team does not have to com- pete with Big Ten football and basketball. 0 1 q 14 Na -,. . q j 4- o S- - 4 FE (add; allo -4 - - 44 - - Drop-off; available at these I1convenient locations 1BRUARY 1-8 1 -Home Appliance Mart $6.60 for print from slide) -Ivory Photo ow 2 weeks for delivery -Purchase Camera -U of M Photo Services -Univer. 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