Cycling club starts
season with 40-km
The Michigan Daily - Thursday, March 29, 1990 - Page 9
UM Dearborn may join NCAA
by Andrew Brown
Daily Sports Writer
Many students ride their bikes
around campus everyday. But how
many of them are up to the level of
a 40-kilometer race? That is the test
put in front of the Michigan
Cycling Club as they host the
Michigan Criterion Bike Race
Sunday.
The race will take place at
Runway Plaza just south of I-94.
In its second year, the Michigan
club has grown from eleven to
forty members. The team is one of
seventeen members of the Midwest
Collegiate Cycling Conference,
which is comprised entirely of
clubs. Other schools in the confer-
ence include Purdue, Indiana, Ohio
State, Ball State, Northwestern, and
Notre Dame.
Cycling is both an individual
and a team sport which is broken
down into three categories, men's
A, men's B, and a women's
division. The top 15 riders for each
category accumulate points for their
team, as well as for themselves.
But the team is the number one
priority among its bikers.
"A single rider will not beat a
good team. We focus on team goals
first," said Brian Block, former
president of the club and this
weekend's race director.
Last year the Cycling Club
placed 6th in the conference. This
year the club is looking for
improvement starting with the race
this weekend, the first event of the
rather short 5 race season which
extends to the end of April.
"Our goal is to win the con-
ference and to go on to nationals."
Block said. "We also hope to
expand the size of the club along
the way."
Scott Robinson, the current club
President, also has a positive out-
look on the season.
"We have a good shot at the
con-ference," he said. "Our person-
nel has improved immensely and is
be-coming more serious and directed
toward racing everyday. We have a
strong core that could really make
some noise."
The race this weekend will host
teams such as Kentucky, Indiana,
and Purdue. It contains $600 worth
of prizes with $100 going to the
winner. Washtenaw Cycle and Fit-
ness sponsors the club and has
provided $300 for the upcoming
race.
Block looks for an exciting day
of racing. "We have at least ten
riders who could easily win men's
A. It should be interesting," he
said.
by Jared Entin
Daily Sports Writer
April, the month of admissions, is on the
frontier, and with it the hopes and dreams of
seniors across the nation are on hold.
But this year, something different is happen-
ing. An institution, the University of Michigan-
Dearborn Athletic Department, awaits approval
to join the NCAA. It needs to clear two potential
snags.
The first obstacle the athletic department must
hurdle is the University Affairs Department,
which can allow the school to apply to the
NCAA for admission into national athletic divis-
ions. This decision will be announced next Wed-
nesday, when the University Affairs Department
holds an open forum.
If Dearborn gains this approval, it would then
begin biting its fingernails waiting for the
NCAA to say yes or no. The earliest the school
would here from the NCAA would be mid-April,
and if accepted, their actual admittance wouldn't
begin until next January. However, acceptance is
not as easy as it sounds.
The Dearborn administration must allow the
athletic department to apply to the NCAA before
the school can even think about stringent NCAA
requirements. Although Sidney Fox, a member
of the Dearborn athletic department, said "We
have a great deal of student support," he later
stressed certain "cost factors" would be weighed
heavily before the University would take any
action.
Though some people in the administration are
doubtful the university will even apply to the
NCAA, some Dearborn students are hopeful.
Members of the ice hockey team and the men's
and women's fencing team are among the most
hopeful because as Fox said, "they are the two
most thriving teams."
But the impact would also be felt elsewhere in
the Athletic Department. In order to attain the
NCAA Division II standards, the school would
have to start up a women's tennis team for the
spring season. However, Fox explained "I don't
foresee any problems given the strength of our
athletics."
Although there is no NCAA scrutinizing
board to come in with a fine-tooth comb to pick
over the athletic department, Dearborn must
prove the school has followed special academic
and athletic standards for the past two years. Such
standards include the number of scholarships
given out and certain scheduling requirements of
competing against NCAA schools.
The ripples of change would stretch further
than just the Dearborn campus. If Dearborn joins
the NCAA, the Central Collegiate Hockey Asso-
ciation might one day receive an application from
Dearborn.
"It (the CCHA) would be the next logical
step, after a few years of being an independent,"
Fox said.
However, if the NCAA denied Dearborn ad-
mission, hockey coach Tom Anastos believes
that program, "would dissolve to a smaller level.
"A number of them (the players) would trans-
fer, although they would have no special alleg-
iance to the Ann Arbor campus," he said.
For now, though, the Dearborn athletic de-
partment will just have to await the decision on
its future like high school seniors all over the-
country.
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