8- The Michigan Daily - Thursday, March 10, 1994 Wolverines look to shoot down weak Eagle squad Qualifying meet will show 'best of Midwest' 'M' women hope to place divers in NCAAs By JENNIFER DUBERSTEIN FOR THE DAILY On Friday afternoon, when most Michigan students are getting ready for a relaxing weekend, the Wolver- ine men's tennis team will be gearing up to face Eastern Michigan at Lib- erty Sports Complex. Eastern (0-5) will not be the Wolverine's biggest challenge. Their No. 1 player, Eric Gessner, is 10-10. Phil Campbell has the next best record for the Eagles at 7-8. With good rea- son, the Wolverines are confident going into the match. "It's not going to be too difficult of a match," Adam Wager said. "It will be a good thing for our confidence." Beside securing another notch in the win column, Michigan has many goals to accomplish. The focus in this meet is not on winning but overall improvement and the mental game. Michigan Coach Brian Eisner wants the Wolverines to "focus on themselves" against Eastern Michi- gan. He believes Michigan has to improve on its mental game to win their future matches. "I want to get the players to come out relaxed so they can focus," Eisner said. The Michigan team plays six singles matches each worth one point. The three doubles matches count for 'It's not going to be too difficult of a match.' - Adam Wager Michigan tennis player the last tie-breaking point. In the fu- ture, the doubles point-will be impor- tant to the Michigan team. "We have been working on our doubles," said Eisner. "The doubles point becomes the deciding factor, so our concentration is on improving our doubles." Eisner is hoping to give every team member experience in the upcoming match. "I would really like to get the entire team involved," Eisner said. "We are trying to use everyone." To win in the future, the Wolver- ines need to bond more as a team, according to Wager. "As a team, we need to become closer together so we can all perform well," he said. The Eagles are Michigan's last opponent before the Big Ten season. "It's a fact that we're oneof the most talented teams in the Big Ten," sopho- more John Costanzo said. "We're still young. We have to play complete matches in the Big Ten season." By RAVI GOPAL DAILY SPORTS WRITER It's nearing showtime for the Michigan women's diving squad. With the NCAA championship meet looming only one week away, the team will attempt to place as many members as it can in the big show at the NCAA Diving Zone meet in Co- lumbus this weekend. The zone acts as a qualifying meet for NCAAs, and will showcase the top divers in the Midwest. Coach Dick Kimball will be tak- ing seniors Martha Wenzel and Cin- namon Woods, sophomore Carrie Zarse and freshman Sharon Wong to the meet. Woods and Zarse both qualified to compete in the NCAA championship meet last year. Woods, a senior tri-captain, gar- nered All-American recognition last year by placing second in 10-meter platform at NCAAs. She also com- peted at NCAAs in the 1-meter and 3- meter springboard events. Zarse is a two-time honorable mention All-American. In her fresh- man season, she placed 14th in the l- meter springboard and 12th in the platform at NCAAs. Despite the pressure to repeat and better her past performances, Zarse said she isn't fretting over this weekend's qualifying meet. "I don't really feel any pressure. Most of the people we're competin against were at Big Tens," sai Zarse. Wenzel placed fourth in platform at Big Tens last year, and was also named an Academic All-Big Ten per- former. Wong said she doesn't expect any additional anxiety because she is a first-year diver. "I'm not too nervous, (being a freshman)," she said. "Compared Big Tens, it's a lot less pressure. don't think it'll be too bad." Coach Kimball sees the meet as a "necessary evil" meet, since it is the qualifying meet for NCAAs. He added that the meet is more of an arena for individuals than a team event. "It's not a meet like the Big Tens where you have a lot of teams," saij Kimball, the 35th-year mentor the men's and women's diving squads. The main competition for Michi- gan includes Indiana's Kristen Kane, who was named Big Ten Diver of the Year, and Minnesota's Laurie Nelson, who finished second in the 3-meter springboards at Big Tens. FRANCE AUSTRALIA RUSSIA ENGLAND d Global InternshipQ and Language U) Programs INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS For program details complete the coupon below and mail it to: Boston University International ProgramsC 232 Bay State Road, Box Q, Boston, MA 02215 " 617/353-9888 W An equal opponity, afrmative action instiution FRANCE AUSTRALIA RUSSIA ENGLAND Please rank as 1,2, and 3 the programs in which you are most interested. You will receive information on all of our international programs The women's diving team-faces predominately Big Ten competitors at zones. Divers need consistency at NCAA Zone C meet By CHARLIE BREITROSE DAILY SPORTS WRITER If Dick Vitale were in Cleveland, Ohio, this weekend he might say, "The Wolverines need the three 'Cs,' baby: consistency, concentration and confidence." The men's diving team is sending three members, senior Eric Lesser, junior Abel Sanchez and sophomore Alex Bogaerts, to the NCAA Zone C Meet to attempt to qualify for the NCAA Championships in two weeks. Of the three "Cs" one stands out in exercise Room Study Lounge "TLounge Computer Room * LaundlyFacdities 24 hour AttendefLc6gy *qame Room Heat and'Water Included Univesity Towers Apartffen 536 S. Forest Ave. Ann Arbor, MI 48104 761-2680 the mind of the Wolverine divers. "Consistency, that's the name of the game," Sanchez said. "If you can put together a good list and land on your head, you don't have to hit your dives for tens. Just stay consistent." The Zone meet is set up in order to ensure that the most consistent divers will advance to the next level. Com- petitors must dive two out of the three events (one-meter springboard, three- meter springboard and 10-meter plat- form). At the meet's conclusion, the divers are ranked in each event, and the top 10 finishers go to Minneapolis for NCAAs. Dick Kimball, Michigan's diving coach, said it will take two good performances for a diver to make nationals. "They have to be consistent in two events," he said. "They can'tjust have one good event, that won't do it." Lesser and Bogaerts are hoping to achieve this. In the past both have failed to attain the consistency neces- sary to win big meets. Bogaerts had a disappointing finish in lastyear's Zone meet, and Lesser experienced prob- lems at last month's conference cham- pionships. "I hope to do as well as I did on the one-meter, but I need to have more consistency on the 10-meter," Bogaerts said. "Last year on 10-meter I didn't dive as well as I'd liked to. That's why I didn't go to NCAAs." Lesser had a second place finish on the platform at Big Tens but failed to make the finals of the three-meter event The second "C", concentration, was key in Lesser's performance in the platform event at Big Tens, after a disappointing three-meter event. "(I didn't) make it to finals in the three-meter," he said, "but I didn't lose my concentration and came back and did real well on the platform." The last "C," confidence, can be acquired from any number of differ- ent sources. Sanchez and Lesser have competed and scored at the NCAAs - - -- . 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"Focusing on running through t1* dive in my head before I get up on the board really helps me." Lesser has confidence in his and the other Wolverines abilities. "(Kimball) has done his work to prepare us, and we've done our work so I think we're all going to do really well at this meet," he said. If the trifecta of "C's" are accom- plished by these Michigan divers, th all three may be headed to the NCARP championships. " All three are in a position where they're good enough on a given day to make it," Kimball said. But there will be several outstand- ing divers standing in the way. Minnesota's P.J. Bogart finished in the top two of all three events at the NCAAs last season. Ohio Stale's Yoshi Sakata and Indiana's A)dc Boersmahave also finished well in previous nationals. Michigan saw all these divers and most of the other top competition at Big Tens. 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