8 - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, February 17, 1994 Crew gets ready for outdoor season with some Florida spring training By WILL McCAHILL FOR THE DAILY The Spanish Armada it's not, but the Michigan men's and women's crew team will certainly be nearly as impres- sive next week when they take to the waters of Tampa, Fla., for a week of spring training. For the 93 men and women who make up the teams, the trip to Tampa is a chance to finally get into real boats and row on real water after spending most of the last few months training on machines indoors. The teams have been building strength by working out several hours each day on ergometers (rowing ma- chines) in the Sports Coliseum. "In the winter we spend less time training, but it's more efficient than in the spring," women's coach Mark Rothstein said. Men's coach Gregg Hartsuff con- curred, adding that the rowing ma- chines are good because they give row- ers "instant feedback as far as their performance." In the spring, practice takes more time because everyone needs to travel to the boathouse on the Huron River. Additionally, it takes time to prepare the boats prior to each practice. The crew team currently owns 10 boats, although a few of the older, wooden ones are rarely used, as the teams tend to prefer the newer, carbon- fiber compound boats are much faster and lighter than the others. Although the women's team does not elect captains, Rothstein says he expects the seniors in the varsity eight boat to step up and lead the team. "At this point, it's hard to say who will make the first boat," Rothstein said. "Carrie Hogg is coming off a good winter, and so are Wendy Wilcox, Ingrid Hogle and Missy Giddings." However, Rothstein stressed that there is little opportunity for individu- als to make a big splash competing for the team. "Everyone's basically a part of a machine," Rothstein said. "They want to feel themselves go fast," Hartsuff said of the men's squad. He feels there is more room for note- worthy individual performances in the sport, although it is within a team set- ting. Hartsuff expects his top performer to bejunior MattBeelen, who the coach believes may have a shot at making the 1996 U.S. Olympic team. Beelen will anchor the first boat, accompanied by a core of younger rowers. Both teams will have younger row- ers in key spots this season. "We have more talent this year than last, but significantly less experience," Rothstein said. Both coaches are optimistic about their teams' respective chances this season, and Hartsuff has already coached his team to victory in a race last weekend, an individual competi- tion using the ergometers. The men's team crushed Big Ten foes Purdue and Michigan State as well as Grand Valley State and Notre Dame, winning the meet outright by placing first in every varsity event, and also claiming a free rowing machine. The women's team is coming offits best season ever, highlighted by a sil- ver medal at the Southern Intercolle- giate Rowing Association champion- ship regatta. The teams' main competition this season will be against other Big Ten teams, most of which are also club teams. The main power in the confer- ence, however, is the varsity-level Wisconsin squad. Rothstein and Hartsuff agreed that the high point of this season should be the inaugural Big Ten Championship regatta April 19, which would crown a conference winner for the first time. The women's team will have the chance to compete in unofticial races against teams from Western Ontario and Rollins College while in Florida next week, although the main focus of the week off is training. Both teams' will compete at home for the first time this season against Purdue on the Huron River March 26. SWIMMING Continued from page 5 This weekend's event marks the last Big Ten meet for seniors Nicole Williamson and Kathy Deibler, half of Michigan's freestyle relay team. Also competing in their last meet are Karen Barnes, Judy Barto, Vallery Hyduk and captains Higgins and Stephanie Munson. The tournament gets underway to- day, with preliminary contests in the morning. The top eight swimmers from the morning races compete for their event's championship in the finals at night. The competition ends with the last of the finals Saturday evening. I U SMidwinter SELECTED PIECES OF CLOTHING - Orvis -Browning - Patagonia 25% - 40% Off As well as certain gift items up to 30% Off MacGregor's Outdoors, Inc. 803 N. Main " Ann Arbor 761-9200 . Mon. - Sat. 10-6 Special pricing on selected flyrods. JUDITH PERKINS/Daily After splitting its matches last weekend against Indiana and Ohio State, the Michigan women's tennis team defeated Western Michigan yesterday. Women netters smiash Western in 8-1 triumph By RYAN CUSKADEN FOR THE DAILY The odds were against the Michigan women's tennis team yesterday when it squared off with Western Michigan in Kalamazoo. It was the Wolverines' first dual road meet of the season. They were facing Bronco Holly Taylor, the No. 4 singles player in the Midwest, and Michigan coach Bitsy Ritt expressed concern over her players' intensity levels after last weekend's matches against Indiana and Ohio State. "(Compared to Western) we really have a more solid lineup," Coach Ritt said. "Our primary focus will be to avoid letdown." None of this seemed to matter to the Wolverines, as they pummeled Western Michigan, 8-1. Michigan co-captain Jaimie Fielding bounced back from a disappointing 0- 2 singles start, trouncing Audrey Smith 6-1,6-2. She later teamed with Tara Graff to defeat Andrea England and Shannon Dean in straight sets. "After last weekend it felt really good to come out and win," Fielding said. Holly Taylor provided the Broncos with their only victory by defeating Bojana Jankovic 6-3, 6-3. It was the only blemish for what was an otherwise solid day for the Wolverines. So much for the odds. ....... American grabs silver in Olympic mogul event Blue laxers * get back to basics over break By WILL McCAHILL FOR THE DAILY Cradling. Poke-checks. Man-down defense. That's what's on the agenda for the Michigan men's club lacrosse team next week. Practicing the fundamen- tals of their game, perhaps a little rusty - or frozen - after a long winter. Fortunately for them, they get to do " it in sunny Tampa, Fla., a far cry from dreary Ann Arbor. Club vice-president, team captain and starting midfielder John Kolakowski said that anyone can play club lacrosse, regardless of experience, but cuts are made before spring starts to separate the men from the boys. The team trimmed its roster down to 34 from approximately 50 in the fall. "Fall is really a maintenance time forus," Kolakowski said. "In the spring we like to bring the team up to a more competitive level. The real season is now." In fact, the real season has already begun for the Wolverines. The team clubbed West Virginia, 20-6, in its season opener last weekend. The Wolverines seem to be picking up were they left off last season, when they tallied 16 wins against a mere three losses, and garnered their fourth consecutive Big Ten club champion- ship and fifth in seven years. "We've only lost two or three guys from last year's team," Kolakowski said. "We have a major nucleus of the returning guys and some good younger players also." Coach Robert DiGiovanni is also " enthusiastic about this year's club. "Believe it or not, this might be one of the best Michigan teams ever," DiGiovanni said. Sten Carlson and co-captains Steve Simich and Tony DiGiovanni spear- headed the team's attack. The starting line of midfielders is composed of Kolakowski and return- ingplayersIvan FrankandPaul Dreyer, with senior Ben Hohmuth teamed with Gannon Dudlar on defense. Dudlar played linebacker for the Michigan football team this past season. The Wolverines won'tjust be prac- ticing in Tampa next week, however. Also on the schedule are three matches against southern club teams. Thesquad squares off against the Tampa Bay Lacrosse Club, a private team, before taking on Florida State and Georgia Tech. The Wolverines also plan to stop off in Columbus to face Ohio State, one of the few varsity lacrosse programs in the Midwest. "We're excited about that one," Kolakowski said. "It's not often we get to compete against a serious varsity program.", All this travel toexotic locales takes * a bit of cash, almost none of which comes from the athletic department coffers. "We're more or less self-funded," Kolakowski said. "We do some team fund-raising events and we get some corporate donations through our con- nections, but we have minimal support from the University." BASKETBALL* Continued from page 5 Less than a minute into the second stanza, aputbackby Iowa'sJim Bartels sparked a 12-0 run. It produced the Hawkeyes' biggest lead of the game, at 49-44, with 16:47 left to play. But behind Rose's two three-point- ers, the Wolverines responded soon after with their own burst of scoring, an 18-4 binge, to make it 64-55, Michi- gan, with 10:01 to go. The Wolverines retained at least a nine-point cushion for the remainder of the game. Their biggest lead of the night came at the 3:47 mark when Jimmy King nailed a three-pointer to put Michigan up, 80-66. King invited noise once again with his uncontested reverse jam with just 14 seconds left. Despite the game's outcome, Michi- gan coach Steve Fisher said he had concerns about his team's consistency. "I thought at times tonight, we took a deep breath and coasted," Fisher said. "The final score was good. How we got NEWSDAY ( and arC .11 LILLEHAMMER, Norway -- Today's debate: Is moguls a worthy Olympic event or a snowy beer com- mercial masquerading as one? Or as American Liz McIntyre was all but asked yesterday in the aftermath of finishing second in the women's com- petition: "Do you really deserve a sil- ver medal for that?" Nobody asks these questions of the souls in Bud Greenspan's Olympic movies. But consider that yesterday's moguls final - half of the freestyle skiing competition - on a hillside overlooking the Olympic flame and the town of Lillehammer included: A live band, the "Texas Twisters," who played shriekingly loud metal while grinding away barehanded on electric guitars in five-degree weather. Recorded music while skiers made their runs, blasted through seven behe- moth speakers. The distinct atmosphere of a winterbowl to view the final bounced and rocked with the music, did the wave and waved flags, and resorted to straight, no-nonsense cheering only when Norwegian gold medalist Stine Lise Hattestad made her winning run. (And booing when McIntyre followed, which is outrageous in this country). Daffy twisters, cossacks, double twisters and twister spreads. Also, "Twisting by the Pool" and "The Twist." The former are aerial maneuvers, part of the event. The latter are tunes played during the races. So is it sport enough? Ask Hattestad, a 27-year-old who won Norway's third gold medal of the Games yesterday (speedskater Johann Olav Koss made it four an hour later in the 1,500 meters), and then promptly confirmed her retirement at the end of the season. "I think this is a good last one," she said. "I don't know if I even quite understand what I've done." a special 711 N. 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