2B - The Michigan Daily - SportsMonday - February 14, 2005 CLUBSPORTSWEEKLY Taekwondo gives Colt Rosensweig For the Daily To a practitioner of Taekwondo, the sound of sharp kicks thwacking onto paddles is as distinctive and enticing as the crack of a bat is to a baseball fan. Every week on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, these sounds emanate from the martial arts room in the CCRB, where the Michigan Taekwondo (UMTKD) club meets. Taekwondo is an ancient Korean martial art, developed thousands of years ago as a method of self defense. The modern sport evolved more recently, with Tae- kwondo being designated as the national sport of South Korea in 1963. It became an Olympic medal sport at the Sydney Olympics in 2000. "Taekwondo literally means 'the way of kicking and punching,' " LSA senior Jae Lee, the president of UMTKD, explains. "Taekwondo distinguishes itself from other martial arts, such as karate and kung-fu, with its emphasis on agility and kicking." Lee, whose father is a martial arts master, has been personally involved with Taekwondo since he was a child. He has been involved with the on-campus club since enrolling at Michigan. "At first, I kind of hated practicing because I had to," Lee said. "But as I grew older, I developed a deeper appreciation for it." The Taekwondo club at Michigan was founded in 1963 by Grand Master Hwa Chong, the former president of the United States Taekwondo Union, Taekwondo's governing body in the United States. Grand Master Chong continues to teach the class segment of Michigan Taekwondo. UMTKD is made up of two parts. The class, taught by Grand Master Chong through U-Move, is geared more toward beginners and has a more formal atmosphere. Class attendance is recommended for those with no experience but is not mandatory in order to join the club. The class costs $120 per semester, but UMTKD is a real bargain - at a typical studio, one month costs about as much as a semester of class here. The club Athlete of the Week punch to all ages practice sessions are led by peer instructors and are more informal. While club sessions focus on Olympic-style sparring, class sessions put more emphasis on forms. Serious students attend class or club sessions two to three days a week. In order to be a well-rounded Taekwondo athlete, a student must be good at both sparring and forms, called Poomse. A form is a specific series of movements, incorporating various kicks, punches and blocks. "To be promoted, forms are mandatory as well as a certain degree of sparring knowledge," Lee said. The club does not participate as a team in competitions, since Taekwondo is an individual sport. They do attend various tournaments throughout the region, though not on any specific circuit. In March, the club will hold its annual scrim- mage against Michigan State. The UMTKD club includes a 50-year-old man, a professor and many women in its fluctuating 40- to 50-person membership. "(Taekwondo is for) anybody, - all ages, any physical build, male or female," Lee said. "The first thing people usually ask me when they ask about the club is, 'Is any experience necessary?' And I always say 'No,' because Taekwondo is unique, in that any person can utilize his or her strengths to their best advantage." UMTKD, unlike many Taekwondo schools, is not for a profit. "The most important thing in learning Taekwondo, or any other martial art, is finding the right teacher," Lee said. "I've seen a lot of schools that put profits first and quality of instruction second. True masters are hard to find these days. A true master is someone who not only possesses the physical skills for martial arts, but also doesn't neglect the mental aspects when teaching his students." Taekwondo is first and foremost an art - with sport as an aspect of that art. "The sport of Taekwondo is more like other sports - there are rules to ensure participants aren't hurt," Lee said. "The martial art of Taekwondo is for life and real-life situations." Name: Jenny Deiley Team: Women's Gymnastics Hometown: Dayton, Minn. Class: Junior Why: Deiley won the individual all-around for the second time this season in the For Run Invitational on Saturday. She also placed first in both vault and floor exercise with a season high 9.900 on floor. Deiley has now placed in the top-three in the all- around six out of seven meets this season. I 'M' SCHEDULE Date Event Location 2/16 M Basketball at Wisconsin 2/16-19 M Swimming/Diving Big Ten Championships 2/17 2/18 2/18 2/18 2/18-20 2/19 2/19 2/19 2/19 2/19 2/20 2/20 2/20 W Basketball vs Purdue Wrestling at Michigan State W Gymnastics vs West Virginia Hockey vs. Notre Dame Softball at Florida Atlantic Tournament W Track/Field-Harold Silverston Invitational M Tennis vs. Alabama W Basketball vs. Iowa M Gymnastics at Penn State Hockey at Notre Dame M Tennis vs. Cornell Wrestling vs. Purdue M Basketball vs. Indiana Madison Bloomington Ann Arbor East Lansing Ann Arbor Fort Wayne, Ind. Boca Raton, Fla. Ann Arbor Ann Arbor Ann Arbor State College Ann Arbor Ann Arbor Ann Arbor Ann Arbor Time 9 p.m. TBA 7 p.m. 7 p.m. 7 p.m. 8:05 p.m. TBA TBA 7 p.m. 7 p.m. 7 p.m. 7:35 p.m. 12 p.m. 1 p.m. 3:30 p.m. Netters fall behind early at Vanderbilt By Scott Bell Daily Sports Writer Over the span of a tennis match, there are about 120 points contested on average. Within those points, about 600 shots will be hit in an average match. But as No. 18 Vanderbilt showed Michigan yesterday at the Currey Center in Vanderbilt, it only takes one or two points to decide an entire match. The Commodores outlasted the No. 49 Wolverines by a 5-2 margin, due mostly to their ability to win points when they counted the most. "Competitively, our guys were right there to win the big points," Michigan coach Bruce Berque said. "We were just outplayed physically in the big points." Vanderbilt (7-0 overall) set the tone early, sweeping the Wolverines (3-2) in doubles to win the opening team point of the match. After battling back and forth for the majority of the eight game pro-set, the Commodores' first doubles team of Scott Brown and Jason Pinsky took control of the match late, defeating Michigan's sopho- more duo Brian Hung and Ryan Heller by an 8-6 mar- gin. Vanderbilt clinched the doubles point when Ryan Preston and Andy Mack won the second doubles match. They dismissed Michigan's freshman Matko Maravic and senior Michael Rubin 8-4. The most hotly contested match of the doubles session came against a familiar face. Former Wolverine Matt Lockin teamed with Jordan Magarik to defeat Michi- gan's only remaining undefeated team - sophomore Steve Peretz and senior Vinny Gossain at third doubles. The Wolverines' duo fought to defend their 3-0 doubles record but ultimately fell short in a tiebreaker, 9-8 (6). "Our doubles came out very tentatively," Berque said. "We went down an early break in all of our doubles matches. Third doubles did a good job fighting back, but we dug ourselves into a hole too early." Lockin then set the pace for the Commodores in sin- gles, preventing a possible Michigan comeback attempt. He gave Vanderbilt a 2-0 lead after beating Hung 6- 4, 6-3 in the second singles spot. Lockin - who left Michigan after the 2001 season for Vanderbilt after picking up 27 dual wins over the course of one of the most successful freshmen seasons a Wolverine had ever had - improved to 7-0 on the year in singles. All hope was not lost. While Hung's match was still going on, three other singles matches went into I MN'S$ TRACK ANDFIELD A M' outleans six for third-place finish By Ian Robinson Daily Sports Writer MIKE HULSEBUS/Daily Senior Vinny Gossain and doubles partner sophomore Steve Peretz lost their first match of the season to Jordan Magarik and former Wolverine Matt Lockin. Coming down the final stretch of the 600-meter race, sophomore John D'Arcy was in second place. But he outleaned Steven Wezner of Central Michigan at the finish line to beat him by .03 seconds. D'Arcy posted a season-best time of 1:18.12 in race to earn his second victory of the season. "The most impressive moment in the meet was D'Arcy's effort at the end of the 600," coach Ron War- hurst said. Friday and Saturday at the Sykes- Sabok Challenge Cup at State Col- lege, the men's track team continued its preparation for the Big Ten Cham- pionships. The Wolverines showed that they are in fine form with a third-place finish out of 10 teams over the weekend with 114 points, just one point behind runner-up Cen- tral Michigan and 11 points behind host Penn State. D'Arcy competed in two other events over the weekend. On Friday, he ran the 400-meter leg of the dis- tance medley relay team that cap- tured its second NCAA provisional qualifying time of the season. He also ran the third leg of the 4x400- relay that finished in third place. Another Michigan athlete who excelled in multiple events was senior Rondell Ruff. With D'Arcy he ran the 1200-meter leg of the distance medley relay team that received an NCAA provisional time on Friday. On Saturday, Ruff finished in third in the mile with a time of 4:08.09. One hour after compet- ing in the mile, Ruff set a personal record in the 800-meter run with a time of 1:50.57. "I wanted to gauge how well I would do on consecutive days," Ruff said. "I view this as a tune-up for Big Tens." A duo of field athletes led the Wol- verines over the weekend. In the triple jump, sophomore Mike Whitehead finished second. After struggling to hit the board for much of the season, he set a personal record with a second-place leap of 51-8 1/2. "We needed to get a good triple jump out of Michael to get some con- fidence going into the Big Ten meet," Warhurst said. "Now that he is on the board, we hope he stays there." On the high jump, junior Brad Miller continued to perform well by posting a second-place jump of 6-10 3/4.. "He has a good attempt on 7-feet, which would place very high at Big Tens," Warhurst said. Warhurst is pleased that his team continues to improve. "We are just an inch away in one or two events from becoming really good," Warhurst said. In the Tyson Invitational in Fay- etteville, Ark., senior Nate Brannen finished second in the mile with a time of 3:59.50. He failed to improve upon his time from last week. "I have been feeling pretty bad with a throat infection over the last few days, and it didn't feel any better today," Brannen said. The Wolverines close out their regular season on Saturday at the Harold Silverston Invitational at Indoor Track Building. 6 6 6 first set tiebreakers. With the opportunity to go ahead in three singles matches, and with the sixth singles match yet to start, the Wolverines still had a chance to pull off the upset. But the big points didn't fall in Michigan's favor, and it lost two of the three tiebreak- ers. With one singles match complete, Vanderbilt had the lead, 2-0. Just minutes after the tiebreakers were completed, Van- derbilt's No. 17 Scott Brown defeated Rubin 6-2, 6-0. After a first-set tiebreaker defeat, senior David Anv- ing fell short in his comeback attempt in the second set, losing 6-2. Ryan Preston's 7-6 (2), 6-2 victory over Any- ing clinched the fourth point for Vanderbilt, giving them the win. The Wolverines did anything but give up. Heller - who did not practice much this past week due to illness - claimed the first point of the day for Michigan, winning his No. 4 singles match in straight sets and defeating Andy Mack 7-6 (3), 6-4. Despite dropping the first set of his match at third sin- gles in a tiebreaker, Maravic refused to fold. He fought back against Pinsky to win the second set 6-4, tying the match at a set apiece. Pinsky regained his composure in the final set, as the home crowd willed him to a thrilling 7-6 (1), 4-6, 6-2 win. "Matko played a great match," Berque said. "He and his opponent were very similar in talent and had some amazing baseline points. "(Pinsky) just came up with the big shots when he needed to the most." Peretz and Magarik met in the final match of the afternoon. In what seemed like a replay of the back and forth third doubles match played earlier in the day, the two split the first two sets. The third set was decided by a super tiebreaker, which Peretz claimed 10-7. His 6-1, 2-6, 1-0 (10-7) victory not only gave Michigan its second win of the match, but totaled the number of singles defeats Vanderbilt had seen in its six prior duals. "Ryan (Heller) and Steve (Peretz) both fought very hard (yesterday)," Berque said. "Our guys showed a lot of pride and heart to keep on fighting." WRESTLING Continued from page 11B guaranteed." The Wolverines started the meet off slowly, giving up major deci- sions in the 125- and 133-pound weight classes. But from there the Wolverines middleweights picked up the slack. After Tannenbaum's win, Michigan won six of the seven remaining matches. Senior co-captain Ryan Bertin continued to roll, picking up a minor decision victory over Joe Johnston of Iowa. This win comes just a week after Bertin defeated Illinois's Alex Tirapelle - last year's national run- ner-up in the 141-pound weight class. His win against Iowa extended his unblemished record to 22-0. "(Ryan) has been able to stay healthy so far this season, and he's been real focused on the goal at hand," McFarland said. With the Big Ten Championships coming up in just three weeks, this win over a traditional Big Ten pow- erhouse gives the Wolverines even more confidence than before. "I'm real proud of the guys," McFarland said. "We came in here real focused and were able to exe- cute like we had planned. This is a tough place to win at and despite the slow start; we were able to win most of the big matches. This also keeps us in contention to win the Big Ten regular season title. The Wolverines will have no chance to rest. Next weekend they will travel to East Lansing to face bitter rival Michigan State. Michigan is currently tied with Illinois for the lead in the Big Ten standings, and a loss would more than likely end any hopes of winning the title. "We've got to take (each match) one at a time from here on out," McFar- land said. "Every match counts." School record sends Blue past field By Luke Bostian For the Daily If you blinked, you'd have missed it. Senior Sierra Hauser-Price won the 60- meter dash by less than one hundredth of a second Friday in a school-record time of 7.45. A split-second slower and the Michigan record would still belong to alum Maria Price, and the victory last Friday would have belonged to Eastern Michigan's Patrice Beasley. Hauser-Price was one of 10 Wolver- ines who set personal records as the women's track team took second to host Penn State in the Sykes-Sabok Chal- lenge Cup. On day two, Hauser-Price set another personal record. She ran the 200-meter in 24.16 and took second, behind Penn State's Shana Cox After this weekend's meet and last week's Meyo Invitational, Michigan has seen it's top competition in the Big Ten, according to distance coach Mike McGuire. ' "Illinois and Penn State are prob- ably the premier teams, along with ourselves," McGuire said. "We've seen what they have to offer, and we know what we have to offer. So it's just a mat- ter of staying healthy." Michigan ended the first day of com- petition in a tie for second place with Pittsburgh after Hauser-Price's win and strong performances in the pentathlon and 5000-meter. Senior Jennifer Wil- liams recorded a personal-best and NCAA provisional qualifying 3,733 points in the pentathlon. She finished second to Penn State's Gayle Hunter, who had a career performance with 4,059 points. Williams followed up her strong pentathlon performance with a fourth-place finish in the high jump at 5-6 on day two. In the 5000-meter, senior Ana Gjes- dal took first, junior Laura Brosius took third and senior Chelsea Loomis took fifth. Those finishes were good for 20 of the Wolverines' 35 day-one points. Michigan's distance medley relay team placed fifth in 11:45.28. Senior Ashley Eckel finished eighth in the weight throw with a distance of 57-7 1/2 to round out the Wolverines' strong day- one performances Things only got better for Michigan on day two, as the Wolverines pulled away from Pittsburgh for a solid hold on second place behind the Nittany Lions, a Big Ten favorite. Senior Lind- sey Gallo had her second big meet in a row. She won the 3000-meter run with a personal-best time of. 9:14.24, her third NCAA Championships qualify- ing time in two weeks. At last week's Meyo Invitational, Gallo qualified for the mile with a Michigan-record time and helped the Wolverines' dis- tance medley relay team qualify for the NCAA Championships. Freshman Alyson Kohlmeier earned a provisional qualifying time of 9:24.80 in the 3000- meter, good enough for second place. Senior Teresa Feldkamp finished second in the mile with a personal-best time of 4:47.98. The Wolverines had three top-10 finishers in the 800-meter run. Freshman Nicole Edwards placed first with a personal record and NCAA provisional qualifying time of 2:06.67. Junior Kelly Catino took fourth in the pole vault, clearing a season-best 11-10. Sophomore Laura Glynn took sixth in the 600-meter sprint with a person- al best 1:35.09. Sophomore Bridgette Maynard and junior Jamie Barbour took sixth and seventh, respectively, in the shot put, with throws of 45-10 and 44-4 1/4 - personal bests for both. "Our competitiveness is starting to show," coach James Henry said. "We had a number of outstanding perform- ers. We continue to improve from previ- ous weeks." 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