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Check out the Michigan rowing team this weekend.
The women formerly known as "The crew team" host
national power Virginia at Belleville Lake at 11 a.m.
on Saturday.
Thursday
March 26, 1998
11A
raylor calls
ess conference
Mark Snyder
ly Sports Editor
st spring, the Detroit media swarmed Murray-Wright
h School, anticipating a "big announcement" But the only
thing at the Detroit high school on that day was a void, as
pected guest of honor - Robert Traylor - cancelled the
ring just hours before it was to begin.
e anticipation from that day will be realized tomorrow as
Robert Traylor -- probably Michigan's
best player and definitely its biggest -
:_. will speak to the media at a 2 p.m. press
conference, possibly to announce his eligi-
bility for the NBA Draft.
While school officials refused to discuss
the motivation for the conference, they
were eager to speak about their most
famous alum.
"We're hoping one of our graduates will
be here," said Murray-Wright principal
aylor Sally Polk, who later identified Traylor as
graduate in question. "He wants to come home."
ile the impending press conference hints at Traylor's
arture, Michigan coach Brian Ellerbe said last Friday at a
ss conference that Traylor was "50/50" with regard to his
ision. If the junior center does depart, his 6-foot-9, 300-
nd presence in the middle will be sorely missed. Traylor, the
4I'en Tournament's most valuable player, has served as
igan's co-captain for two seasons.
err, Halpern
0 meet agamn
ranay Reddy
ily Sports Writer
en Matt Herr gets to Yost Ice Arena tomorrow afternoon
e his game against Princeton, the senior will be reminded
iy he chose to come to Michigan.
When the puck drops at 8:30 p.m., and Herr hears the crowd
rs the Tigers, the Alpine, N.J.,-native will know why he
is the maize and blue with such pride. And when Herr gets
ine and talks to his friend back home studying at Princeton,
'I1 know exactly why he decided against the Ivy League.
"A buddy of mine is a Rhodes Scholar from Princeton," Herr
d "He was my real good friend from (prep school) and he's
t' student hockey manager.
e called me the other day and was like, 'The Tigers are
g to Ann Arbor, and if I didn't have a 90-page thesis due
be there.' So that's his life, and I'm playing in the NCAA's
ht now."
Considering his past three years at Michigan, it's obvious to
ir that he made the right decision. Pressured to attend an Ivy
agne school upon graduation from the Hotchkiss School,
blazed his own trail to Michigan, while the majority of his
nds stayed out East.
4'Coming out of prep school, you're pushed to go Ivy
gue Herr said. "But I came out on my visit and it was
thing special. I needed something different, and I was tired
e.Ivy, prep school-type scene. This program's something
cial. I'm so glad I came here."
No*, Herr's life has come full circle, as he prepares to square
against some familiar faces tomorrow night.
"There's a friend of mind on Princeton I grew up playing pee
" hockey with," Herr said. "I played squirts, bantams, all the
tup through with Jeff Halpern"
Herr also shared the ice with Princeton defenseman Steven
oieffs while at Hotchkiss.
"I have mutual respect for them, and they have respect for
," Herr added. "It's nice to play against those guys'
lpern, like Herr, is a star on his team, yet the two have trav-
J completely different roads in order to get to tomorrow's
me. While Herr has feasted on success, being a part of victo-
ass Michigan teams over the past three years, Halpern is final-
atrig what it's like to be a winner.
i has had the opportunity to be an integral part of the
s successful hockey program in the 90s, while Halpern has
away in anonymity at Princeton.
.ttill that changed for Halpern a week ago when the Tigers
6arkson in the ECAC championship. The junior center
but against the Golden Knights, scoring two breakaway
end helping Princeton to a 5-4 double-overtime victory.
7hvictory guaranteed Princeton a spot in the NCAA tour-
, yet did in little for college hockey in New Jersey.
ll9 dad looked in the paper and said, 'Yeah, there's nothing
ie paper,"' Herr said. "There's a little blurb saying they're
yng Michigan.
*,'s kind of funny how hockey differs out East, or at least in
gJersey. Unless it's the Devils, Rangers or the Islanders, no
Iegily cares. There isn't really a college hockey following."
Pctiily for Herr, there hasn't been a shortage of the latter in
lArbor.
Women netters run out of luck
By Drew Beaver
Daily Sports Writer
The record will show that the
Michigan women's tennis team lost to
Notre Dame last night. It will list the
score as 5-4 in favor of the Irish. The
score will lead one to believe that the
match was close.
How close, however, cannot be reflect-
ed by the record.
Michigan hosted the Fighting Irish at
the Varsity Tennis Center last night. And
if you weren't there, and judging by the
attendance you weren't, you missed an
incredible match.
Things didn't start out so well, though.
Michigan dropped two matches right
away, with Michigan senior Sora Moon
and junior Tumeka Harris falling at No. 5
and No. 3 singles, respectively.
At No. 1 singles, Brooke Hart put
Michigan on the board with a straight- set
win over Notre Dame's Jennifer Hall,
who is ranked 18th nationally.
"I was pleased for Brooke, that's a huge
win," Michigan coach Bitsy Ritt said.
The Wolverines then dropped two
more matches. Danielle Lund and Erryn
Weggenman fell in straight sets at No. 2
and No. 4 singles.
These two wins gave Notre Dame a 4-
1 lead, and they needed just one more
victory to take the match.
Boylan lost the first set at No.6 singles
in a tiebreak. She fought back, however,
and took the second set 6-3. She then
dominated the third set, winning six
games to love.
"I've played her before and I knew I
could win,' Boylan said.
The Irish had a 4-2 advantage after the
singles matches, and needed to win one
doubles match to seal the victory.
That match was a little more elusive
than the Irish expected it to be. Michigan
came out on fire in doubles play. At No.
3, Harris and Weggenman rolled over
their opponents 8-1. Hart and Lund
cruised as well, winning 8-2.
The Wolverines had tied the team
score at four points apiece. And things
looked even better as the No. 2 doubles
team of Moon and Boylan took a 3-0 lead
in their match.
But the luck of the Irish could not be-
denied. Notre Dame's Michelle Dasso
and Marisa Velasco came back to tie the
score at 4 games apiece, and went on to
take an 8-5 victory over Moon and
Boylan. The win gave the Irish a 5-4 vic-
tory in the match.
Michigan will look to rebound this"
weekend. Big Ten power Indiana comes
to town on Saturday, followed by Ohio
State on Sunday. Both matches are at II
a.m.
"Indiana is always a big rivalry," Lund
said. "They were the powerhouse in the
past."
Ohio State comes to town looking for
its first conference win. The match not
only features the traditional rivalry
between Michigan and Ohio State, but
between two members of the Harris fam-
ily. Michigan junior Tumeka Harris plays
No. 3 singles for the Wolverines, and her
sister plays No. 2 singles for the
Buckeyes.
EMILY NATHAN/Daily
Michigan's top singles player, Brooke Hart, won in straight
sets over Notre Dame's 18th-ranked Jennifer Hall.
On
t~o
uburn
Wolverines ready
for 'cocky' Stanford
By Jacob R. Wheeler
Daily Sports Writer
This time of year, some things aren't as inevitable as they
normally would seem. Spring doesn't always bring warm
weather. Billy Crystal won't always host the Oscars.
But as long as the men's swimming NCAA
Championships are on the horizon, you can bet Stanford is
in the hunt. Stanford won the Championships last year and
appears on the threshold of yet another one. The Cardinal
carries the No. I national ranking into the season's final
meet, which begins today in Auburn, Ala.
"Right now Stanford is the Mecca for good swimming,"
Michigan coach Jon Urbanchek said. "They have a fab-five
every year - usually the top five recruits end up at
Stanford.'
As if that's not enough, agents in the national capital are
probably calling Stanford the "First Team" - as in the
favorite hangout of the "First Lady's" daughter. According
to Michigan junior Tom Malchow, Stanford's most popular
freshman, Chelsea Clinton, is dating Cardinal swimmer
Anthony Robinson.
So it's no wonder other top-notch swimming teams bris-
tle at the mention of Stanford. They're sick and tired of hear-
ing about the Cardinal legacy - especially from the
Cardinal swimmers themselves.
"Stanford's cocky, we can't stand them," Michigan junior
Tom Malchow said. "No one else has a real fondness for
them either?'
Urbanchek isn't a Cardinal fan either, especially since his
seventh-ranked Wolverines will be trying to make waves in
Auburn as well.
But the 15-year coach recently took advantage of his
swimmers' disgust for Stanford's arrogance. A week ago he
printed out a sign from Stanford's swimming home page and
taped it up next to the pool for every Wolverine to see.
The sign read "We won Pac I Os, now on to NCAAs ... see
schedule/result for the results" - as if to say Stanford
already has the title wrapped up.
After finishing his warm-down laps, captain Owen von
Richter walked by the display and shook his head.
"You got to do it in the pool," he said. "Not just on paper.
Anybody can do it on paper."
But in all likelihood, the Wolverines won't keep up with
Stanford this weekend. And they already know it.
"The top three spots are pretty much taken, based on how
they qualified people for the meet,' Urbanchek said, refer-
See NCAAs, Page 14A
Ten Michigan men's swimmers, including junior Tom Maichow, and one diver start competition In Auburn, Ala., today.
Competition starts at 11 this moming and continues through Saturday.
Lime and coconut? Don't ask Michigan
By Rick Freeman
Daily Sports Writer
It's NCAA time.
And yes, Stanford has a good
chance at winning it all. But the
Stanford swimmers at the NCAA
Championships will probably try to
steal a glimpse of their classmates' bas-
ketball game between races.
And even better, Michigan is still in
the hunt for this one, though you
wouldn't know it by watching them
practice. Unlike many teams on the
cusp of their biggest meet of the year,
they're just as loose in practice as they
were the week before they dismantled
Michigan State on Feb. 6.
The swimmers popped out of the
pool after one of their final workouts
and fished around in coolers of ice for
the thick protein shakes they gulp after
workouts.
"Look out" This from Derya
Buyukuncu, who will be swimming in
the 100 and 200 back, and the 100 fly.
His crumpled drink box almost hits
me in the head. He laughs.
"So how do you get the lime in the
coconut?" coach Jon Urbanchek asks,
but no one seems to hear. He singles
out Tom Malchow and asks him.
See LIME, Page :2A
Michigan's
All-Americans
Derya Buyukuncu
100-200 back, 200-400 free
relay, 200-400 medley relay
Tom Malchow
200 fly, 800 free relay
Mike McWha
1,650 free
Andy Potts.
400 individual medley, 1,650 free
Owen von Richter
500-1,650 free, 400 individual
medley, 800 free relay
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