$B-- The Michigan Daily -- SPORTSMonday - February 24, 1997 SWIMMING Big Ten meet final standings Team Pt Michigan 70 fMinnesota 60 8.0 8O.5 Wisconsin Northwestern Ohio State Illinois Michigan State. Indiana Purdue Iowa Penn State 412.0 403.5 394.0 268.0: 211.0 189.5 157.5 152.0 145.0 Road to 11th title bumpy at times 4..-.......... ... PARADISE. Continued from Page 3B Wolverines accomplished far more than they could have had they focused on the Big Ten. Urbanchek did what was best for Michigan as a team, a program and a school. The Wolverines' 10-year league reign ended, but Urbanchek has his team on track to begin another streak this season at the Big Ten champi- onships, which are next weekend in Bloomington. Minnesota will proba- bly be Michigan's only serious com- petition. "This year, the team is concentrat- ing on trying to get the Big Ten championship back to Ann Arbor," Urbanchek said. "That is our goal." But when the Olympics roll around in 2000, Urbanchek will downplay that goal again, as he should. The Olympics will become top priority. "If you screw around with the Olympics, there won't be another chance," he said. "These guys only have one chance. You have to think about what's best for the athlete." That's best for Michigan, even if it means putting the individual first. Sometimes, there is an "I" in "team." It - Barry Sollenberger can be reached over e-mail at jsol@umich.edu. Senior Anne Kampfe led the women's swim team on the deck and in the pool. Her 55 points were second-best on the team. Kampfe spar.ks tankers t title By Josh Kleinbaum Daily Sports Writer INDIANAPOLIS - It takes more than fast swimming to win a Big Ten championship. The Michigan women's swim- ming team needed some leadership. When the Wolverines needed someone to step it up, they looked to Anne Kampfe. Friday morning, a tired Michigan team swam slowly, allowing Minnesota back into the meet. But Kampfe was there. "I felt that I needed to get my teammates ready to swim and to get them excited," Kampfe said. "I think it's part of my job to get them ready to go and get them psyched up and excited about the night." Kampfe resorted to some odd deck-side antics to pump up her teammates. "It started last year at NCAAs, when we had one really bad morning," Kampfe said. "I just started doing dumb things. I did that again. I just dressed dumb and acted dumb. I wanted to get them laughing and get their minds off the swimming and more on the fun of the meet." Kampfe came out on Friday afternoon wearing a funky maize and blue cat-in-the-hat style hat, with an 'M' patch sewn on. She started dancing on the deck, getting her teammates excited. Then she went out and set the example in the pool. In the first individual event of the evening, Kampfe won the 400- yard individual medley, setting a Big Ten championship record with a time of 4:14.00, breaking the previous record set by former Wolverine Mindy Gehrs in 1993. It was the third time in four years Kampfe won the event. "I've known what the record was since my freshman year and breaking it has been a goal," Kampfe said. "But never coming in here tapered, I didn't know if I could do it. After the swim I did that morning, I thought it was a possibility." And Kampfe wasn't done for the day. She came back to swim a leg of the 800 freestyle relay, something that she had never done before in a Big Ten or NCAA meet. "I looked at it as an exciting point of the meet, because I don't normally swim on relays," Kampfe said. "I just tried to swim my race that I normally swim in the 200 free." Kampfe started asking Michigan coach Jim Richardson to put her on the relay last summer at the U.S. Nationals. Then she swam the lights out at the Big Ten meet. She left Richardson with no choice. "She is having such a great meet, you just couldn't deny her," Richardson said. "She is having the meet of her life here, unshaved. It just shows you the type of swimmer that she is." The relay team finished first and just missed breaking the Big Ten record by five hundredths of a second. Kampfe's 55 points on the meet in individual events was second only to teammate Shannon Shakespeare. But more valuable than what Kampfe did in the pool was what she did out of it. She got her team pumped up when they needed it and helped turn what could have been a disastrous second day into a positive. By Josh Kleinbaum Daily Sports Writer INDIANAPOLIS - It was a roller coaster ride for the Michigan women's swimming team. The result: its I11th consecutive Big Ten title. But the meet could have ended differently. On Friday afternoon, an upbeat atmosphere turned sour for the Wolverines, as they finished the worst of their six sessions of the meet. Their roller coaster entered its big dive, and they let Minnesota back into the meet. "I don't think we had a terrible morning (Friday), we just had some swims that were a little bit flat," Michigan coach Jim Richardson said. "It's obvious we're on a roller coast- er with this meet. About the time you get high, you drop off the end of the drop, and then you've got to pick your- self back up again." With the exception of the 400-yard individual medley and the 200 freestyle, Minnesota qualified as many or more swimmers as Michigan for the finals in every event that night. If everyone finished in the same place in the evening as they had in the morning preliminaries, Michigan's 29.5-point lead would have been diminished to nearly 15. The Wolverines would have been easily within Minnesota's strik- ing distance, especially considering that on paper, Minnesota had the advantage in three of the final five events. The Wolverines were about to enter the most important session of the meet. "We had a team meeting with all of the swimmers, and we just decided that we weren't going to give it up," Michigan freshman Shannon Shakespeare said. "We came together as a team and were really supportive of everyone's swims." The difference was immediately noticeable in the 400 IM, the first indi- vidual event of the evening. Anne Kampfe finished first, winning the event for the third time in her career and setting a Big Ten championship " record. Jodi Navta finished second, and Kerri Hale and Cathy O'Neill finishe fifth and sixth, respectively. The onl Minnesota swimmer to finish in the top eight was seventh-place Olga Splichalova. The event gave Michigan a 69.5-point lead, and the roller coaster started to climb again, Minnesota chipped away at the lead the entire night, but not to the extent that they could have. Nearly every Wolverine who qualified for the finals improved on their finish from the pre- liminaries. Tanya Schuh finished first in the 100 butterfly for the Gophers, but Terri Jashinsky, who had finished second in the preliminaries, dropped to fourth. Talor Bendel climbed from eighth to fifth for Michigan. In the 200 free, Shakespeare and Bendel both responded to the chal- lenge, each climbing one spot from their preliminary finish to first an6 third, respectively. Ellen Frauman climbed from fifth to third for the Wolverines in the 100 breaststroke. Linda Riker climbed from fourth to third in the 100 backstroke. "Minnesota really came after us and put us in a position where we had to respond," Richardson said. "I think we did that (Friday) night." The Wolverines finished the evening strong, as Shakespeare, Kampfe, Bendel and Jen Arndt combined to wi* the 800 free relay. And when they looked at the scoreboard, they had a 39.5-point lead. While the 10-point gain wasn't great, compared to the potential 15-point loss, it was huge. This left the Wolverines in a position to put the game out of reach on Saturday morning. And after the strong showing on Friday night, the Wolverines were able to win it. - I The Warner-Lambert/Parke-Davis Community Research Clinic is seeking healthy males, ages 18-55, for participation in medication research studies. Length of study time is approximately two - four weeks. Research subjects will be paid approximately $500.00 - $1000.00 for participation. For more information, please call Bob at (313) 996-7051, Mon. - Fri., 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. 2800 Plymouth Rd., Ann Arbor, MI 48105 CHAMP'S Continued from Page 1B fourth, and Melissa Sullivan (16th). But the Wolverines stepped it up in the next event. Senior Anne Kampfe responded in the 200 backstroke, claiming her second Big Ten title of the meet. In the 100 free, the Wolverines put the Gophers away. Shakespeare, Bendel, Jen Eberwein and Kim Johnson finished first, third, fifth and ninth for the Wolverines. Michigan picked up 59 points, while Minnesota gained only 15. "They're big-time swimmers," Michigan coach Jim Richardson said. "They had to dig deep and get that extra bit out. It's a real testimony to their character and to their competi- tiveness." In addition to her three individual championships, Shakespeare was part of the winning 800 and 400 free relays, as well as the second-place 200 medley relay and third-place 400 medley relay. Shakespeare, Kampfe and Jodi Navta were the top three point-scor- ers of the meet in the individual events. Shakespeare's three titles earned the Wolverines 60 points. Kampfe finished with 55 points from her 400 IM and 200 back titles and a fourth- place finish in the 500 free. Navta netted 50 points from second-place finishes in the 200 and 400 IM and a third-place finish in the 200 breast- stroke. Minnesota was led by junior Gretchen Hegener, who finished with 49 points. Hegener set new Big Ten champi- onship records in the 100 and 200 breast events. She also finished ninth in the 20, IM. Hegener was named co-Big Te Swimmer of the Year along with Shakespeare. Michigan's 99.5-point victory was the fourth-closest Big Ten champi- onship in the meet's 16-year history and the closest since 1993, when the Wolverines beat Northwestern by 48. MIDTRM PECALSAT RUEGGER'S BAGELS! even (gasp)rw New ff-, ' Yo"' tprkers admiarea uthentic., .s r 4 4 ht i eha hs ipcyNwYokr liigta regrsbgl 4 r uhniYp edd owne. hyr l ahoektl-old 4 hat?, iwe'rehea. ry th oe itpickyou oe aki New Yorker camignhturug er' .agl , r uhetc ep edd No wne .hyrolfainekte-ied " r s, bF ,y .. ;h r N ;. ;. r. j.P.. ,z, ; :<,r:_: