11061, Must M!i'Yi lv Mr. Basketball Robert Traylor of Detroit Murray-Wright won the 15th annual Hal Schram Mr. Basketball award yesterday. He averaged 23 points and 15 rebounds for the 1994-95 season. An announcement of his college choice is planned for April 9. Page 9 Tuesday March 21, 1995 March 1. 19, 0 Men Tankers part of a new age Michigan leads shake-up among traditional powers ' v1mnlers anticipate Cardinal *y Michelle Lee Thompson Daily Sports Writer "Therivalry'snotreally arivalry," Michigan swimming coach Jon Urbanchek said of the intensity de- veloping between the No. 1-ranked Wolverines and the three-time NCAA champion Stanford Cardinal. While Urbanchek admits some ri- valry exists between the nation's two est teams in recruiting and dual- meet competition, he refuses to over- state the suspense mounting just two days before the start of the 1995 NCAA Championships. The 12th-year Wolverine coach has not seen a national championship at Michigan since he swam himself in 1961. And it's that time of the year again for Urbanchek, who says neither he *or his swimmers are nervous. "There's no reason for us to be nervous," Urbanchek said. "Everybody's been to these meets before." Everybody includes many of Stanford's big-name swimmers, like backstroker/freestylerBrian Redderer and sprint freestyler Joe Hudepohl, an Olympian like several Michigan wimmers. Urbanchek said he hasonly signed three of the 20 swimmers he has re- cruited heavily in the past three years, leaving 17 blue-chips like Redderer and Hudepohl to go to Stanford. "If they don't go to Stanford, they come to Michigan," Urbanchek said. That was the case with Wolverine freshman Derya Buyukuncu, who took a recruiting trip to Stanford last ear. Buyukuncu, who went to high school in Irvine, Calif., considered the options and chose Michigan. "It's nothing personal," Buyukuncu said before the Michi- gan-Stanford dual meet. In this dual-meet season, Stanford's relays were too much for the Wolverines, who lost, 134-109. This weekend, the Cardinal are *redictedto win four of the five relays - Which carry twice as much scoring as each of the 13 individual events. "It'll basically be Stanford's re- lays versus Michigan's individual events," Urbanchek said. And there has to be some rivalry between the coaches too -Urbanchek and Stanford coach Skip Kenney have consistently been labeled the top two coaches in the country. Urbanchek *as helped coach three Olympic teams, most recently as Kenney's as- sistant in 1992. At the 1994 World Championships in Rome, Kenney was Urbanchek's assistant coach. Now,just two days before the start of this year's championship meet, Kenney is sick with pneumonia and did not travel with his team yesterday to Indianapolis. "His doctor doesn't want him to o at all," said a Stanford official. However, Kenney - aiming for his fourth consecutive NCAA title- will leave tomorrow and arrive well in time for the starting gun. And Urbanchek will be near him on deck, not thinking of a rivalry but rather of winning the school's first NCAA Championship in more than ree decades. By Rebecca Moatz Daily Sports Writer AUSTIN, Texas -For the first time ever, a team other than swimming's perennial powerhouses infiltrated the top three in the final standings. In fact, for the past 13 years, no team has knocked Stan ford. Texas or Florida out of the top three rankings - until now. With Michigan's second place finish at this weekend's NCAA Championship meet, a new era of swimming was born. However, the Wolverines can not claim to be the sole reason for the birth of this new age. Individual titles won by Michigan swimmers as well as members of the Geor- gia, Arizona and Arizona State teams helped knock the "Big Three" out of the top spots. Stanford won the championship with 497.5 overall points. Michigan finished second with 478.5, and Texas came in third with 355. Florida did not finish in the top five. Michigan's successful breakthrough did not go unno- ticed. As the first team to crack the elite grouping, the Wolverines garnered a lot of praise from the swimming community. Stanford coach Richard Quick - who has led nine teams to NCAA crowns, including the past four Cardinal squads - attributes Michigan's feat to "great athletes, great attitude and wonderful coaching." Michigan coach Jim Richardson was awarded the prestigious Coach of the Year award for his team's suc- cess at the meet. Richardson believes that the team made the break- through this year because of a combination of physical and mental ability. "It was the talent, attitude, wonderful decision-mak- ing, toughness, control and adversity that made this team do great things," Richardson said. Unlike years past, individual national titles, as well as national records, were claimed by teams that have never made it past a top five ranking. Interestingly enough, on the first night of competition, each event winner hailed from a different team. Georgia won the first event of the meet, the 200-yard freestyle relay. It was the first time Georgia had ever won an NCAA relay title and only the second time the Bulldogs had ever won a championship event. Perhaps most interesting is the fact that an Arizona State swimmer stole the spotlight at the meet when the Sun Devils' Beata Kaszuba was named Swimmer of the Year: Kaszuba set the NCAA record in the 100 and 200-yard breaststrokes, and her time in the 200 was the third-fastest ever in that event. Although Kaszuba beat her out to claim the title, Michigan sophomore Rachel Gustin swam the 200 breast under the previous NCAA record time as well. The success of these athletes has led to the beginning of this new era, Former Olympian and Florida alumna Dara Torres expressed her excitement about the future of college swimming. "We need new faces, new teams out there," Torres said. "It was a pleasant surprise to see Michigan win second place." Talor Bendel was part of a Wolverine squad that ousted florida from one of the top three spots at the NCAAs for the first time in 13 years. SWIMMING NOTEBO IK Wolverine swimmers set 14 Big Ten records at nationals By Rebecca Moatz Daily Sports Writer AUSTIN, Texas - The Wolver- ines broke 14 team records and nine Big Ten records at the NCAA Cham- pionships last weekend. Freshman Talor Bendel led the team with three individual records. She set Big Ten records in the 200 freestyle and 100 butterfly (1:46.82 and 54.18), and in the 200 butterfly, she set a school record (1:58.59). Sophomore Rachel Gustin broke the Big Ten records in the 200 breast- stroke (2:10.37) and 200 individual medley (1:59.19), while seniorAlecia Humphrey broke Big Ten records in the 100 and 200 backstroke events (54.10 and 1:54.68). Sophomore Melissa Stone broke the Michigan record in the 50 free (23.00), and freshman Kerri hale broke the Big Ten record in the 200 free (1:46.82). Every relay team Michigan en- tered also broke records. In the 200 free relay, Stone, Megan Gillam, Dana Van Singel and Bendel broke the Big Ten record (1:3 1.55). Gillam, Kim Johnson, Stone and Bendel broke the team record in the 400 free relay (3:20.89). A school record was also set by Jenni Almeida, Karin Bunting, Stephanie Morey and Bendel in the 800 free relay (7:18.37), while a Big Ten record was set in the title winning 200 medley relay swam by Humphrey, Gustin, Stone and Gillam (1:40.97). Finally, Humphrey, Gustin, Bendel and Gillam set the Big Ten record in the 400 medley relay (3:38.40). QUICK CHANGE: Bendel had a busy second day of competition. She swam three events for the day, two of which were only 15 minutes apart from each other. Bendel first participated in the 100- yard butterfly in which she placed fourth. She then switched gears and finished fourth in the next event, the 200-yard freestyle, and in the pro- cess, broke the Big Ten record for the event. Before the night was over, Bendel also swam the anchor of the 800-yard freestyle relay, which also placed fourth and broke the Michigan team record. "I didn't know what to expect," Bendel said. "I knew I needed two good morning times and the evening would take care of itself." END OF AN ERA: Co-captains Humphrey and Almeida swam in their last meet as Wolverines. Humphrey, who had yet to win an NCAA title, ended her stellar Michigan career with three national titles in the 100 and 200- yard backstrokes and the400-yard med- ley relay. Her win in the 100 backended Stanford's three-year reign in the event, while her time in the 200 back was the ninth fastest ever in NCAA history. Humphrey ended her career with 16 Big Ten titles and 12 All-Ameri- can honors. "I am really happy; happy that I am able to contribute to my team's success," Humphrey said immediately following the 200 back event. CALL, TO THE BULLPEN: Freshman Ellen Frauman was informed last Wednesday night that she had quali- fied for the NCAA meet. She flew into Austin on Thursday morning to join the team. 'I can't tell you how excited the team was about it," Michigan coach Jim Richardson said. "It's a good ex- ample of where their hearts are." INTERNATIONAL SUCCESS: Diver Carrie Zarse, who opted to partici- pate in the Pan-American games in Argentina rather than the NCAAs, earned a bronze medal in the three- meter diving competition. - _ r .. . Volleyball rolling into Big Tens By Alan Goldenbach Daily Sports Writer The Michigan men's volleyball team couldn't have picked a better route to take to the Big Ten Championships. After wins over Purdue and Ferris State this weekend, the Wolverines are riding a season-high four-game winning streak as they head to Madi- son next weekend for three days of intense competition against a collec- tion of its arch-rivals. Friday, Michigan (11-4 overall, 8- 3 Big Ten) defeated the Boilermak- ers, three games to one, in a match that typified the Wolverines' season. "It was a slow start for us as usual," Michigan coach Jennifer Slosar said. "Purdue was a strong defensive team and they picked up a lot of balls and it took us a little while to adjust to that." But she was quick to give her team credit for adjusting as quickly as it did. "The sign of a good team is one that's going to be able to work with (Purdue's defense) and eventually get the job done," Slosar said, "and that's what we did." Saturday against Ferris State, the Wolverines won in three straight games. Complementing the victory was the fact that Slosar gave every player from both the "A" and "B" teams at least a full game's worth of playing time. This increased the depth of the Michigan bench, and it also gave Slosar more confidence about the team's depth head- ing into the late part of the season. Slosar was happy with the play of outside hitters James Reynolds and Judd Larned. Reynolds gave the Wol- verines power from the outside, while Larned showed once again that he was able to come in and pass the ball well and play strong defense. "These big tournaments get long and that's where your bench becomes important," Slosar said, "and we've got a very strong and deep bench." Due to the approaching end of the academic year, The Michigan Daily Classified Department will not be accepting personal checks starting Monday, March 20,1995. 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