SPORTS The Michigan Daily Wednesday, February 16, 1983 Page 7 Tracksters have a leader Kazinec has women's team in the fast lane By JOE EWING As opposed to a football player who performs before 100,000 screaming fans, a track athlete leads a lonely life. While everyone knows how motivated a player must get to compete on the gridiron for three months a year, not everyone knows about the special type of student-athlete it takes to remain team-oriented and competitive during a nine-month track season. Women's track captain Brenda Kazinec is just such a team motivator and competitor. "WE ARE A team," says Kazinec, who can usually be seen cheering for teammates, when she is not running herself. "I know if I'm cheering for someone maybe I can help that person. "I know what it feels like to have someone cheering for me, it makes it easier for me," she added. "So if I'm there for them, maybe I'll help them and maybe they'll be there for me." The senior sprinter, affectionately known to her teammates as "C.T." (Captain Tiny), is one of the major reasons for the revitalization of women's track at Michigan in recent years; a resurgence based on effort and team spirit. "SHE'S THE heart of the effort," said women's head track coach Francie Goodridge. "It's a new effort for Michigan, because we just really star- ted to get competitive last year. She's a big part of the raised team motivation." Last year, Kazinec and teammates rode that new wave of competitiveness to a fourth-place conference finish in- doors and a second-place Big Ten and seventh-place AIAW finish outdoors. Individually, Kazinec had a great year in 1982, placing fourth in the 100- meter, and fifth in the 2-00 meter out- doors at the Big Ten finals. She also gained All-American status by running the anchor leg of the 4x100-meter, relay team that took the Big Ten title in a con- ference record time of 45.99 and finished fourth at the AIAW champion- ships. THE SOUTH Euclid, Ohio native also holds the Wolverine records in the 100- meters (11.8), 300-yard dash (36.13) and 300-meter dash (39.80), and has been a part of eight record-holding in- door and outdoor relay teams. This year Kazinec, a finance major in the business school, has had a fine season, winning the 300-yard dash in a trianglar meet with Saginaw Valley and Western Ontario, and the 60-yard dash and mile-relay at the Michigan Relays. "Brenda improved all the way through her season last year and has been improving this year," reflected Goodridge. "There's no question sprin- ters are tough and that Brenda should place in the Big Tens." SOME OF KAZINEC'S toughest competition has come from teammate Lorrie Thornton who has beaten her three times this year in the 60. Still, though, Kazinec is able to let the team concept take precedence over her own personal glory. "(Lorrie and I) always run well," said Kazinec. "Sure I don't want her to beat me, just like she doesn't want me to beat her, but if someone's going to beat me and it's going to be Lorrie, it's okay." As well as facing competition from her own and other teams, Kazinec has faced an international field and brought home gold medals for the United States in the 100- and 200-meters in the 1981 Maccabiah games in Isreal. "I remember when I was getting the gold," Kazinec recalled. "They played the national anthem and all (the people from) the United States were cheering. I felt so proud to be an American at that time." Daily Photo by JEFF SCHRIER Sure she's small, but teammates look up to "Captain Tiny." Senior sprinter Brenda Kazinec has given the women's track team much-needed leadership this year. AIM HIGH We're assembling the team now to carry the Air Force into the frontier of space with leading edge technology and the officer leaders to keep us on course. Consider your future as an officer on our team! 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Kevin described an incident in high school when a teacher, even at the end of a school year, couldn't tell the two apart. Kevin took Mike's place in class while his brother returned a tuxedo after the senior prom. Although the class knew what was happening, and started laughing, the teacher didn't catch on. Kevin started power tumbling at age six, a year earlier than Mike. The childhood sport involves long tumbling runs on a 92-footmat. THAT BACKGROUND served them well in floor exercise competition when they switched to gym- nastics in tenth grade. Kevin currently ranks first and Mike fifth in the NCAA Mideast region in that event. In their younger days, too, Kevin always seemed to finish just ahead of his brother. "When he finished first," said Mike, "I came in second. When he was second, I was always third:" That led to intense competition. "There's always been rivalry between me and him," said Mike. "We're both pretty much equal except Kevin always comes out on top." THE REASONS for Kevin's superiority were his one year head start and his exclusive devotion to gymnastics. Mike spent a lot of time playing little league football while Kevin attended summer tum- bling clinics. Thus, Mike has always had to play catch-up. When both decided to attend the University of Michigan, Kevin stepped in and competed right away while Mike sat out his freshman year. Now, both are important contributors to the Wolverine team, competing in floor exercise and vaulting, while Kevin also competes on high bar. "THEY'VE GOT skills coming out of their ears," said gymnastics coach Newt Loken. Kevin won the Big Ten championship last year and qualified for the NCAA championships the last two years in floor exercise. Mike finished tenth in floor exercise and 17th in vaulting in the Big Ten last season. The rivalry, although it still exists, has faded a lit- tle. "We know who's better," said Mike. "We just joke about gymnastics." "Every time he goes out there," said Kevin, "I hope he hits his routine. We joke around, but it's all joking." This will be the last season of competition for the McKees, and Loken expressed sadness at their coming departure. "I have known them for prac- tically all their lives," said Loken. "When they were but seven-years-old they used to come up from Toledo and practice with us. And now all of a sudden they're graduating." Compilete. Stop by this week and ask why. Theta Xi FRATERNITY S. 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