Page 14- The Michigan Daily, Saturday, May 7, 1983
Skating champs
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By JACKIE YOUNG
Special tothe Daily
DETROIT - Rhinestones sparkled as
the multi-colored spotlights shone on
World Champions Rosalynn Sumners
and Scott Hamilton along with a host of
other figure skating celebrities in a one-
night engagement at Joe Louis Arena
last Wednesday.
The skaters performed exhibitions
proving their mastery of many dif-
ferent aspects of the sport of figure
skating as part of a 15-city tour that in-
cludes selected skaters from world
figure skating teams of several coun-
tries.
MORE THAN 10,000 spectators paid
premium prices to see the highlights of
1984 Winter Olympic hopefuls at this
year's World Figure Skating Tour. The
proceeds from the Tour were used to
develop and implement programs for
amateur competition.
Noticeably absent from the Tour of
champions was former World Ladies
Champion Elaine Zayak who has been
absent from the limelight ever since
she suffered an injury to her ankle
while training for the 1983 World
Championships held in Helsinki,
Finland in March.
Much of the applause from the
atypical audience composed of many
future skating champions, skating
coaches, and dedicated figure skating
club members went to Hamilton and
Sumners. Carol Fox and Richard
Dalley, the current National Champion
bronze medalists in Ice Dancing who
are originally from the Detroit area,
also drew much loving support from the
local crowd.
FOX AND DALLEY, who began
skating together in 1972 representing
the Wyandotte Skating Club, are con-
sidered very late starters in the sport of
figure skating. Originally the pair
began its skating career on wheels as
competitive roller skaters at a rink in
Plymouth where they met. Fourteen
years ago a height difference separated
the two from becoming a pair.
Now height is no longer a problem for
Detroit
the well-matched dance pair and a thin
metal blade instead of wheels have
become the medium for their artistic
expression. In order to study and train,
however, the pair had to leave Detroit
in 1980 for Wilmington, Del. where the
excellent coaching of Ron Ludington
has aided Fox and Dailey in their rise
up to the ranks of World Figure Skating
team members.
Other featured skaters at the yearly
event included Judy Blumberg and
Michael Siebert, the 1982-83 U.S. Dance
Champions and 1983 World bronze
medalists, and Kitty and Peter
Caruthers, the 1982-83 U.S. Pair Cham-
pions and 1982 World Bronze Pair
Medalists. 1982-83 Canadian Pairs
Champions Barbara Underhill & Paul
Martini dazzled the crowd along with
1982-83 Canadian Men's champ Brian
Orser. Representing the USSR in the
Tour were Veronika Pershina & Marat
Akbarov, who ranked fifth in the 1983
Worlds in Pair skatingand Olga
Volozhinskaya & Alexandre Svinin
ranking fourth in the 1983 Worlds in the
Ice Dancing category.
THE FINESSE and style of all the
World Figure Skating Champions cast a
spell over the audience, despite the fact
that several of the competitors fell or
lacked the usual spark and polish that is
the key to success in skating. This may
have been a result of the long tour.
Detroit is midway through the list of
cities on the tour and in each city the
skaters must perform nearly the same
program. Anxiety over the upcoming
Olympic Games may also have been a
significant reason for their performan-
ces.
Yet the HAM in Scott Hamilton still
came across as he donned a Detroit Red
Wings jersey for the first of his two en-
core programs. The Bowling Green,
Ohio born Scott showed off his
traditional Hamiltonian style complete
with hurricane footwork, successive
double axel jumps, and comic facial
and bodily expression all finished off
with a blurr spin that left the audience
in a whrrrrr of awe at his technical skill
and comically appealing personality.
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Scott Hamilton shows some of the moves that pleased the crowd last Wed-
nesday at Joe Louis Arena.
Women 's athletic dept.
honors three top seniors
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By JIM DAVIS
The Michigan Women's Athletic
Department extended special honors to
three Wolverine athletes last week. The
honorees were seniors Sue Frederick-
Foster, Melanie Weaver, and Vicki
Kimball.
Frederick-Foster was the recipient of
the Marie Hartwig Award for the out-
standing Woman Athlete-of-the-Year.
The award is given on the basis of
academic excellence, sportsmanship,
and committment.
THE ANN ARBOR native ran track
and cross country for four years. She
was the first member of a Michigan
women's track team to win a Big Ten
indoor title, capturing the 1981 880-yard
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other titles.
Weaver won the Conference Medal of
Honor, which is presented to a senior
from each Big Ten school who has "at-
tained the greatest proficiency in
scholarship and athletics.
The Scottville native also has com-
peted in both track and cross country
for four years, attaining All-America
status in each. She holds the outdoor
Big Ten crown in the 10,000-meters and
owns several Michigan records as well.
Kimball received the Michigan
Women's Athletic Association Award.
The annual award is presented in
recognition of outstanding athletic per-
formance, leadership and sportsman-
ship.
Kimball, a diver, placed in the top 10
on both the one- and three-meter boards
at four Big Ten Championships. She is a
two-time AIAW All-American and also
an NCAA All-American. A national
competitive diver since an early age,
Kimball never placed lower than 16th
on platform in her career and has
represented the United States in eight
foreign countries.
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