SPORTS The Michigan Daily Thursday, October 6, 1983 Page 9 Spikers make he grades By BARB McQUADE tice time every day," said Vong. That's not my belief. They Most students believe in the old stereotype that a college need time to study." athlete has an IQ lower than his shoe size. However, the Most players utilize the time Vong gives them. In fact, it "dumb jock" tag cannot be applied to the Michigan women's has even become a tradition for the team to bring flashlights volleyball team. along on the road to study in the dark. Indeed, last winter the team's average grade point was "Studying on the road is difficult, but it can be done," said .25, highest of any varsity team on campus. The spikers senior Barb Bensing. "You do see a lot of girls with have held this position consistently since 1977. flashlights, but you really need them to study at night." ANOTHER impressive statistic is the number of volleyball VONG NOTES that hitting the books can be a hard thing to players that regularly appear on the Academic Honor Roll do, particularly after losing a big match, but also stresses the with grade point averages at, or above 3.5. Last winter, four concept of the student-athlete. of the team's 12 members appeared on the list. "They've got to keep things in perspective," said Vong. According to Women's Athletic Director Phyllis Ocker, "They're students first, athletes second." volleyball has been the most highly represented sport on the "WE TELL all the freshmen that if they have any Honor Roll for many years now. problems they can come to us," said Bensing. "Since we've "That team has done a super job in maintaining had a lot of the same classes they're taking right now, we academic status" said Ocker. can usually help them out." TO WHAT DOES the volleyball team attribute its success One interesting fact is that the team's average GPA is ac- n.the classroom? Perhaps the influence of head coach Sandy tually higher during the fall than it is in the off-season. Vong can be credited for some of his players' academic ac- The accomplishments of Michigan's volleyball players complishments. have not gone unnoticed by the Athletic Department. Last "I believe players are mirror images of their coaches," year Jeanni Weckler was named the first "Marie Hartwig said Vong. "If I stress the importance of good study habits, Scholar," an award named after the first women's athletic they're going to pick up on it." director and based on academic performance, athletic Vong also pointed out that since there is no opportunity for achievement, and university community service. Vong a professional volleyball career, his players must get more So, the next time you see a van pass by, illuminated by students first, athletes second odt of college than just four years on the court. twelve tiny lights, you'll know it's only the volleyball team I'M NOT going to ask them to give me six hours of prac- hard at work. -M'-MSU telecast short-circuited By RON POLLACK Michigan State's loss to Illinos two weeks ago, as well as a rash of injuries, has done more thar upset the Spartans' coaches and players. It has also upset the plans to have the game telecast live via closed-circuit television at Crisler Arena. GRIDDE PICKS Why did President Shapiro move his pen house to the Union this year? ecause his home was too small for such a gathering? Wrong again honey. Reliable sources say that Shapiro didn't want anyone snooping around in his house for fear they might find his Grid- de picks. "When there's food on the line there is no such thing as being too cautious," Shapiro commented. "I'll be damned if some beady-eyed football fanatic is oing to cheat me out of a pizza. 'I'm not being greedy, I'm just doing what any other business man in my position would do. Besides, if you think ex- plaining moving the party to the Union was hard, how would I explain picking Indiana to beat Michigan." You can turn your picks in at Pizza Bob's on State St. or Church St. or at the Daily offices at 420 Maynard. Deadline for all picks is midnight Friday. 1. MICHiGAN at Michigan State (pick score) 2. Purdue at Ohio State 3. Minnesota at Indiana 4. Illinois at Wisconsin 5. Northwestern at Iowa 6. Nebraska at Oklahoma St. 7. Alabama at Penn St. 8. Florida State at Pittsburgh 9. Oklahoma at Texas 10. Auburn at Kentucky i I- UCLA at Stanford 12. LSU at Tennessee 13. Notre Dame at South Carolina 14. Washington State at USC 15. Virginia at Clemson 16. Baylor at SMU 17 Missouri at Colorado 18. Boston College at Yale 19. Prairie View at Bishop 20. DAILY LIBELS at MSU Spatoons Because of these setbacks to the Michigan State football team, Michigan promotions director Don Triveline said ticket sales for such a broadcast were very sparse. "YOU USUALLY anticipate having 25 percent of your sales the week before the game," Triveline said. "At that point we weren't near what we'd hoped to sell. It was cancelled because of a lack of interest. Ticket sales were very minimal." Triveline said that it was hoped 4,000- 5,000 tickets would be sold. When the event was cancelled, the Michigan ticket office had sold 250 tickets accor- ding to an athletic department spokesperson. Tickets were also sold by CTC ticket outlets, but officials of this firm refused to say how many tickets they had sold. This promotion for the Michigan- Michigan S'tate game is very similar to those done for the West Virginia- Oklahoma and Washington-Arizona State contests last season, Triveline said. The only difference is that the promotions for the latter two games were successful. "IN WEST VIRGINIA I'm not sure there's much to do and football is big there," Triveline said. "Plus, Oklahoma was a big game. In the Washington-Arizona State game, it decided if Arizona State would win the conference title. The game was at Arizona State and they probably didn't have a hell of a lot to do in Seattle. What I'm trying to say is that Michigan and Michigan State are close. It's close enough where you can consider going to the game. Also, if Michigan State had beaten Illinois the game might have been on (network) TV. If we played Oklahoma or someone far away where people didn't have access it might have worked." As for the future of this closed-circuit concept, Triveline could give no definite answer. "I don't know if we'll try it again," he said. "Personally, I think it's something to consider." 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