Page 6D - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, September 6, 1984 4 Tracksters run for the top A After four straight tidles, men drop to third By MIKE REDSTONE Men's track coach Jack Harvey was, faced with hefty doses of both good and bad news following last year's track season. The good news: Almost all of his top runners would be returning for the 1985 campaign. THE BAD NEWS: Gone to graduation were his top shot putter, his top discus thrower, his top pole vaulter, his top high jumper, and his top long jumper. Losses such as these could put a real damper on the "field" portion of a track and field team. This may be true, but Harvey has chosen not to dwell on his field athlete losses and instead is optimistic about the experienced group of runners that will be returning in 1985. "ALL OF OUR runners are back ex- cept one or two of last year's seniors," said Harvey, whose teams had won four straight Big Ten outdoor champion- ships before last season's third-place finish. "So I think we can realistically shoot for another top-three finish in this year's Big Ten." Despite the abundance of quality field athletes on last year's team, Harvey still refers to that season as a rebuilding year. With the loss of those top seniors, however, it looks as though 1985 will be a repeat of 1984 for the track team. Harvey builds his hopes for a top three conference finish on the return of several key runners. SENIORS BILL Brady, Dave Meyer, and Dennis Keane and junior Chris Brewster will make up a very strong long distance unit for Harvey. Other top returners include sprinters Steve Johnson, middle distance runners Bob Boynton and Ron Simpson, and hurdlers Derick Stinson and Thomas Wilcher. Harvey has also had an outstanding recruiting year in bringing a well- balanced class of freshman to Michigan. The 11th-year coach has landed two top runners from Trinidad, John Mc- Carthy and Earl Parris, as well as Omar Davidson, who won the Michigan high school class 'A' 440-yard dash. Other top recruits include miler Rollie Hudson and triple jumper Declan Lugin. Women lose coach after two sixth= place finishes By MIKE REDSTONE Consistency was the key word to describe the 1984 women's track team. Unfortunately, consistency meant sixth-place finishes in both the outdoor and indoor Big Ten Championships. IN THE INDOOR meet, several strokes of bad luck hampered the Wolverines. In the outdoor event, no such hardships occurred but the result was the same. After the Big Ten meet, Joyce Wilson in the 400 meters, distan- ce runner Sue Schroeder, and high jumper Angie Hafner, had all emerged as qualifiers for the outdoor NCAA Championships. Wilson took 13th in her event and went on to the Olympic trials later in the summer. The highlight for Michigan at_ the outdoor meet was the petformances of high jumpers Dawn Rich and Hafner. The duo finished one-two for the Wolverines to help keep Michigan in contention for the sixth spot. At the indoor NCAA meet in Syracuse the 3200-meter relay team of Jennifer Rioux, Martha Gray, Wilson and Schroeder earned All-America honors and broke a school record as they finished fifth with a time of 8.44.42. WITH ONLY four seniors graduated off of the 1984 squad, this year's team should be improved by a solid core of experienced performers in both track and field events. One major blow to the team will be the loss of coach Francie Goodridge af- ter three seasons. Goodridge announ- ced that she would be leaving to become women's track coach at Wake Forest shortly after the indoor Big Ten Cham- pionships in March. Her husband, John will be coaching the Deacons' men's team. As of June 8, no replacement had been named but reaction from Goodridge's runners was strong. "I THINK it was a shock to everyone, said Wilson. "She had just gotten the job a few years ago. It came all of a sudden. "She had a good relationship with everyone. I've learned as much under her as I would have under anyone else." With the solid nucleus Goodridge has built over the past three years, the new coach should be able to enter the 1985 track season withan optimistic outlook. I 4 4 Daily Photo by CAROL L. FRANCAVILLA Derek Harper takes off on his school-record long jump at last season's Big Ten Indoor track meet held in the Track and Tennis Building. 4 Strong diving propels tankers in '83 Men's team powerful' Returnees aid women 4 By MIKE REDSTONE Just when you thought you've heard about all of the top-ranked teams at the University of Michigan.. . Well, you better add one more to your list -=the men's swim team. AFTER A 1983-84 season in which the team finished third in the Big Ten and 11th in the NCAA, the Wolverines are hoping to break into the top ten in the nation this year. "We finished a stronger third than we thought we would in the Big Ten last year," said Wolverine assistant coach Bruce Gemmel. "We were very pleased with our results." On the strength of its performance in last year's Big Ten meet, Michigan sent nine swimmers and divers to the NCAA Championships, including freshmen Dave Kerska, Jeff Godon, and Joe Parker. OTHER Wolverines to make the NCAA cut include Alex Wallingford, Kirstan Vandersluis, Mark Noetzel, Benoit Clement, and divers Bruce Kimball and Kent Ferguson, who went on to win the NCAA three-meter com- petition. With the return this year of all of these swimmers and divers except Noetzel and Vandersluis, Gemmel believes the Michigan team will have the necessary experience to improve on last year's NCAA finish. "We should definitely be improved with the added experience even though there are no seniors on the team this year," said the former Michigan cap- tain. "A top ten NCAA finish is a challenging, but realistic goal for the team this year." THE RETURNEES, combined with several recruits, could give the Wolverines the strength they need to improve in the Big Ten also. Michigan, which was "two or three swimmers short of winning the Big Ten" last year according to head coach Jon Urbanchek, may have found what it was looking for in Europe. Urbanchek has been working on recruiting several top prospects from his native Hungary which would greatly improve the team's overall strength. Two others swimmers who are likely to give the team a big boost this year are Lance Schroeder and Pete Hovard. Schroeder took last season off to swim on the Canadian National team after winning the 200-meter butterfuly as a freshman at the 1983 Big Ten Cham'- pionships. Hovard is a transfer who should be a top scorer in the 200- backstroke. By MIKE REDSTONE Boycott or no, women's swimming coach Peter Lindsay must be very glad that the Olympics have come and gone. What could give a college-level swim coach such an attitude? HE'S GOTTEN sick of all the boycott talk? Nope. But he probably did feel a bit weak in the stomach when two of his All-American swimmers missed most of the 1983-84 season to try out for the Canadian Olympic team. These two Canadians, who will rejoin the Wolverines this year are Naomi Marubashi and Melinda Copp. AS A FRESHMAN, two years ago, Marubashi was the Big Ten champion in the 50-, 100-, and 200-yard freestyle events and went onto earn All-America- honors in the 100-yard event. Copp, who will be the only senior on the Michigan squad this year, also decided to take a shot at the Canadian team after earning All-America laurels in the 200-yard backstroke. After a fourth-place finish in the Big Ten and a ninth in the NCAA last year, Lindsay is hopeful for an improved, 1984-85 squad. "The strength and experience of those two swimmers (Marubashi and Copp) should help our dual meet totals tremendously," said the second year coach. "We really had no sprinters last, season so we should be much more balanced this year." Lindsay also foresees a 1984-85 team with better dep- th than last year's with the return of several "big scorers." THESE TOP returnees include freestylers Kay Lundy, Jeanne Perk)is and Caroline Lindemulder, backstrokers Jane Esselstyn and Cecilia Sheehan, butterflyer Lisa Lun- sford, and divers Mary Fischbach, Leigh Anne Grabovez and Diane Dudeck. Lindsay has also put special em- phasis on recruiting a top breast- stroker, something the team sorely.-- needs. In doing this, the Wolverine4 coach landed a top prospect in Christi Vedeja from Madison. Other top recruits according to Lindsay are but- terflyers Christi McMaster of Rye, New York, and Ann Rood of Walnut Creek, Cal., and Mollie Blieden, a sprin- ter/butterflyer from Bloomfield Hills. First-division finish Ulrich's rhakes showing your true blue.. . alot easier. M3M"I .,, .4.. World class diver Bruce Kimball heads for the water at a dual meet against Michigan State last January at Matt Mann Pool. still golfers By MIKE MCGRAW After a disappointing eighth-place finish in the Big Ten, Michigan golf coach Jim Carras is once again left hoping for a first-division finish in the Big Ten, something the golf team hasn't acheived in six years. "There are five very good teams in the Big Ten. It's very competitive, more so than I ever remember," said Carras. "So an upper-division finish is my goal.". MOST OF THE top golfers will be returning in the spring of 1985, but for the Wolverines to do any moving up they'll have to make some big im- provements during the off-season. 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