2 - The Michigan Daily - SPORTSMonday - Monday, December 6, 1993 Here is how the top 25 teams in college football fared this week- end. First-place votes are in parentheses. Team Record Result 1. Florida State (42) 11-1-0 idle 2. Nebraska (15) 11-0-0 idle 3. West Virginia (3) 11-0-0 idle 4. Notre Dame (1) 10-1-0 idle 5. Auburn 11-0-0 idle 6. Tennessee 9-1-1 idle 7. Texas A&M 10-1-0 idle 8. Florida 10-2-0 beat Alabama, 28-13 9. Wisconsin 9-1-1 beat Michigan State, 41-20 10. Miami 9-2-0 idle 11. Ohio State 9-1-1 idle 12. North Carolina 10-2-0 idle 13. Penn State 9-2-0 idle 14. UCLA 8-3-0 idle 15. Boston College 8-3-0 idle 16. Arizona 9-2-0 idle 17. Colorado 7-3-1 idle 18. Alabama 8-3-1 lost to Florida, 28-13 19. Oklahoma 8-3-0 idle 20. Kansas State 8-2-1 idle 21. Indiana 8-3-0 idle 22. Virginia Tech 8-3-0 idle 23. Michigan 7-4-0 idle 24. Clemson 8-3-0 idle 25. Fresno State 8-3-0 idle tie. Louisville 8-3-0 idle Others receiving votes: Southern Cal, Cincinnati, N.C. State, Michigan State, Virginia, California, Washington, Arizona State, Wyoming, Ball State. lily sports desk on the ns Building at 420 Maynard gnosticator will receive a ery & Pub. Contestants are ota'I Name: Phone: 'S .f. Athle 7., e~ o.. s A e~". WHO: Mike Knuble TEAM: Hockey HOMETOWN: Caledonia, Mich. YEAR: Junior ELIGIBILITY: Junior WHY: Knuble scored four goals and had one assist in leading the Wolverines to two victories over West- ern Michigan this weekend. The junior now has 12 goals on the season and has become a force on the power play. BACKGROUND: Knuble scored 26 goals and added 16 assists for 42 points last season; the seventh best on the team. Eleven of his goals came on the power play , ranking him 11th nationally. Here are the top 10 teams in the WMEB of Orono, Maine college hockey poll. First-place votes are in parentheses. Team 1. Michigan (15) 2. Lake Superior 3. Boston Univ.(1) Record 12-1-1 10-4-0 7-3-0 8-3-0 9-2-2 Pts. 158 135 134 96 86 Team Record 6. Wisconsin 8-5-1 7. RPI 6-4-0 8. Harvard 6-2-1 9. Michigan St. 9-3-3 10. New Hampshire10-2-0 Pts, 77 56 44 40 24 ,:" " 4. 5. Maine Colorado Coll. MARSHALL Continued from page 13 still just having fun at nine." Wendy's mother actually discouraged her from doing gymnastics and pleaded with her to choose another sport like ballet, soccer or anything other than her sister. Still, though, her parents supported her in every endeavor, even when she thought of going all the way to California to escape her sister's shadow. High school for Wendy in Hicksville, N.Y. was full of medals, awards and, a different club each year. She sought the perfect combination of coaches and trainers that could mold her into a consistent and competitive athlete. "It didn't matter where I went, as long as I did gymnastics. There wasn't a coach who was going to stop me from doing it. (Switching around) was always my decision," Marshall said. A member of a varsity squad since seventh grade, Marshall led a No. 1 division one team of whose success she accredits to the domination of she and her sister. However, she did not even consider going to the University of Massachusetts-Amherst where Tami starred because, "I lived in her shadow my whole life, and college was where I was going to be myself. "It's OK (to be placed in Tami's shadow). I look up to my sister," Marshall said. "That's the best part of my whole life is that she went to UMass, and I went to Michigan." During the early signing period, Marshall looked at Georgia, Ohio State, North Carolina State, and Eastern Michigan. Georgia even asked her to wait until the later signing period, but it was the phone call from Michigan three weeks before the last signing that sealed her fate. Her trip to Michigan lasted longer than her actual visit. She was bound by train for 17 hours each way, only to stay in Ann Arbor for eight. But she knew instantly that this was where she belonged. Marshall described her visit as a true recruiting trip by which she chose the school based on its academics, the coaching staff and her would-be teammates. "When I was here, I knew I belonged here. I loved it," Marshall said. "Everything was perfect about this school. The gymnastics program was on the rise." Apparently, the team welcomed her in such a manner that she decided to join the Wolverines. And now, Michigan coach Bev Plocki credits Marshall with being very committed and dedicated to the team, enough so that she is active in recruiting. Coming to Michigan knowing very few people, Marshall has since managed to socialize and have fun even with a rigorous year-round practice schedule. Unfortunately, there is little time for her to pursue interests other than academics or gymnastics, but she does find time to study and maintain her grades. "The first couple of months of school were really hard, not knowing what to expect," Marshall said. "You learn how to organize your time. You know the (athlete) routine when you come here, but now there are the 'extracurricular activities'. "We do the same things; we just years. "When she came, we looked at her as not the 'all- around superstar' that we're looking for," Plocki said. "However, what we saw in her was a diamond in the rough. We felt that her other events would come along if we dealt with her in a consistent coaching philosophy." Obviously, her limited contributions were recognized as greater efforts than she acknowledged. She won Big Ten athlete of the month in February 1993 for most consistency on the vault, winning every time she competed. At the end of the season, she and two teammates were all named second team All-American. These awards all overshadow the fact that she set a Michigan Name: Wendy Marshall Team: Women's gymnastics Year: Sophomore Height: 4-foot-11 get less sleep. We're just like regular students. Just because our pictures and names are in the paper all the time, doesn't mean we're any different." After having solely dominated her high school and club divisions, one of the biggest transitions Wendy has had to adjust to is the level of her colleagues' talent. "Everybody comes from high school being number one as an athlete, and then you come to Michigan and everyone is number one," Marshall conceded. "You just always won in high school and here, you're competing with everybody that is number one. It's a challenge." At the beginning of her freshman season, Marshall was restricted to competing on vault and 'was disappointed to not perform all- around as she had in the past four "If I only compete in one event. or two, that's fine if it's going to benefit the team," Marshall said. "I learned last year from watching. The people on the sidelines are more important than the people that are just competing in that one event. If there's no team support, then there's no reason for that person to be competing." Last year, the grapevine of gymnastics gossip reported Michigan was lucky to be at the NCAA meet, yet the Wolverines placed ninth. This year, Marshall and her teammates are shooting to be members of the super six, the top six programs in the nation. In order to be part of a team, you must bond with a coach as well as your peers. Initially, Wendy had problems with this concept because she and coach Plocki had a "rocky" relationship. "She laid down the rules from the beginning, and we worked everything out," Marshall said. "As the meets went on, we got closer and closer, not just me and Bev, but me and the team." Not only does Plocki continually watch over her team as athletes, but she often acts as a 'mother-away- from-home' model for the women. "When a coach walks into a room and you want to do it for her, yourself and the team, that is a good coach," Marshall added. "We respect her. She is a tough coach, but if she wasn't, she wouldn't be a (gymnastics) coach." Marshall admires the coaches as well, but misses the sensitivity of former assistant coach and friend Dave Kazarra, the man who recruited her. He left the team this summer for a head coaching position at none other than UMass-Amherst, where her sister went. "He helped me through a lot mentally and physically," Marshall said. "He was Bev's right hand and left. When things were bad, he would change it somehow, someway." This past summer, Marshall did some coaching at Gym XL on Long Island, where she once worked out and where her sister is now employed. Coaching on the college: level is one of her interests, and something she will try to do so someday perhaps while she is working on her masters. A Kinesiology major, Marshall is.- pursuing a teaching degree. School has always been important to the Marshall family. Throughout her childhood, Wendy's parents always insisted that both their children only do gymnastics if it was fun, and that- once it wasn't, to get out. They both stuck with it and managed to excel in academics as well. "They're alike and they're not alike," said Wendy's mom, Arlene.. "They both have their individuality." While Wendy and her sister Tami may be different people, it's.- hard to ignore their uncanny resemblance. "(Wendy) and her sister both. were notorious, when they're performing or when they're notfor. their smiles are unbelievable," Plocki said. "She is an extremely outgoing, energetic, upbeat personality. That helps to bring everybody around her up." Both Wendy's coach and parents feel she has definitely maturedy. since coming to Michigan. It's been a formula of being away from home, balancing an education with athletics and escaping her sister's,. shadow to become an independent, personality in her field that have 41, contributed to her success. "She's learned to love the sport," Tami said. "Her priorities... and goals are straight. Her attitude, will carry her a long way.".. And she's still smiling. Trivia Answer The Bluebonnet, Fiesta, and Hall of Fame. Michigan has won its only appearance in each. individual record on the vault, scoring 9.9 twice during the season, breaking junior Beth Wymer's 9.85 mark. Marshall's least favorite event is the uneven bars, even though she did compete in this event last season. It helped her place sixth all-around at the conference championships. "Physically it is the hardest for me because you need a release move. I can do every single one but I just can't catch them," Marshall said. "I've been working on some and this year I'll have a release move." 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