SPORTS
Denver trades Fab Fiver Rose to
"Indiana in four-player transaction
Wednesday, June 19, 1996 - The Mi higan Daily - 15
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Former
Michigan standout Jalen Rose was trad-
ed last Thursday to the Indiana Pacers
along with Denver teammate Reggie
Williams for veteran guards Mark
ackson and Ricky Pierce.
The teams also exchanged first-
round picks in the June 26 draft, mov-
ing the Pacers to the No. 10 position
with Denver dropping to 23rd.
"I felt that change was needed,"
Pacers president Donnie Walsh said,
after the Pacers had consecutive sea-
sons with a franchise-record 52 regular-
season victories.
The Pacers finished 52-30 for the
second straight year, but were eliminat-
ed in the opening round of the playoffs
y Atlanta after reaching the Eastem
Conference finals the previous two
years.
Walsh said the decision was not a
reflection "on how we played, or the
way the season ended. It was just a
sense of where do we go from here, and
are we stretching it too much to ask the
team to go ... with pretty much the same
personnel."
The 6-foot-8, 210-pound Rose was
Denver's first-round draft pick (13th
overall) in 1994. He averaged 10 points
on 48 percent shooting and 6.2 assists
and 3.0 rebounds per game this season.
Rose was one of the members of the
renowned Fab Five, and helped lead the
Wolverines to two straight NCAA tour-
nament final appearances in 1992 and
1993. After the '93-94 season - Rose's
junior year - he gave up his last year
of eligibility and entered the NBA
draft.
"The reason we made the trade was,
it changes the nature of our team some-
what,' Walsh said. "We bring a player
in who can play more than one position
in Jalen Rose, and we bring in a shoot-
er in Reggie Williams. And with the
10th player in the draft we get a chance
to get a better player than we might
have got at 23."
Walsh said the Nuggets wanted
Jackson, a veteran of nine seasons who
was the league's rookie of the year with
the New York Knicks, to fill a need for
a pure point guard. He averaged 10
points and 7.8 assists last season.
Pacers coach Larry Brown, who had
urged Walsh to obtain Jackson in the
1994 trade, also said it was a tough
decision to make the deal.
"Mark had a great year. ... It was
even more difficult (to trade him)
because of the way he conducted him-
self, and the type of person he is,'
Brown said, adding that he was also
impressed with Pierce this season.
"I've dealt with a lot of players in this
league. Those are two of the finest pro-
fessional athletes I've ever been associ-
ated with,' Brown said. "The bottom
line is this ... I think it's a big step for
us."
AP PHOTO
Former Michigan star Jalen Rose (at right, guarded by Detroit's Grant Hill) was
traded to the Indiana Pacers from the Denver Nuggets last week. The 6-10 guard
averaged 10 points and 6.2 assists per game last season with the Nuggets, In his
second year In the NBA. Rose left Michigan after the 1993-94 season. A
Blue softball coach adds regional honors to extensive list of accolades
Will McCahill
Daily Sports Editor
Add another award to the already-
lengthy list Michigan softball coach
Carol Hutchins is compiling.
The 12th-year Wolverine coach was
named the Great Lakes Region Coach
of the Year for the second consecutive
year. It was the fourth time in five years
that the Wolverine coach has been so
honored by the National Softball
*Coaches Association.
Hutchins - the 1995 National Coach
of the Year - led the team to its fourth
Big Ten regular season title in five
years, ending the season with a 51-14
record. The Wolverines also won the
Big Ten tournament, earning a berth in
the NCAA Tournament, also for the
fourth time in five seasons. Michigan
went on to win the NCAA Regional 2
Tournament, and earned a place in the
Women's College World Series.
The Wolverines tied for seventh place
in the series for the second year in a row.
Hutchins recorded several career
landmarks over the course of the 1996
campaign. By beating Penn State April
2, she reached career victory No. 450,
and her 450th win as coach of the
Wolverines came in the Big Ten
Tournament championship game.
Hutchins chalked
up her 200th win in
the Big Ten by beat-
ing Purdue April
17.
Notebook WOMEN'S BAS-
U Softball KETBALL
E Women's Catherine
Basketball DiGiacinto, repre-
" Baseball senting the
Michigan women's
basketball team, led
the Big Ten Conference all-star squad to
three wins at a tournament in Sweden
last weekend.
The 6-1 senior forward averaged 11.3
points and 7.3 rebounds as the confer-
ence team won all three of its games en
route to victory at the H-luskvarna
Tournament at Jonkoping.
The Troy native's best performance
game in the tourney's first outing.
DiGiacinto started, and poured in 14
points to go along with 10 boards.
DiGiancinto, the lone Wolverine on
the squad, is shooting 42.3 percent from
the floor and 63.2 percent at the free
throw line.
The conference touring squad makes
a stop at Goteborg, Sweden before con-
tinuing on to Copenhagen, Denmark.
BASEBAL
Michigan baseball pitcher Brian
Steinbach was picked in the 50th round
of last week's Major League Baseball
Amateur draft, by the Milwaukee
Brewers.
The junior from Pewaukee, Wis.,
posted a 4-3 record and a 5.40 ERA.
Steinbach has not signed with the
Brewers, and will return to tie
Wolverine squad next season.
Steinbach was drafted out of high
school in 1993 by the Atlanta Braves,
but decided to attend Michigan.
TRIALS
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beyond that it doesn't really matter.
em trying to convince myself to get
that (winning) attitude back"
Senior Courtney Babcock and
freshman Nicole Forrester will repre-
sent two opposite extremes of experi-
ence for the Michigan women's track
team at the Canadian trials.
Babcock is looking to continue the
great success she has had recently at
both the Big Ten and national levels.
At the NCAA Championships, she
finished in the top three in the 5,000-
eter run while tying a NCAA per-
sonal-best performance with a time of
16:17.68.
At the other end of the spectrum,
Forrester is coming off major disap-
pointments at the Big Ten and NCAA
championships, where she failed even
to qualify for the final round of the
high jump.
In the NCAAs, Forrester's main
goal was to jump higher than 6-3 1/2,
a height that would have qualified her
automatically for the Olympic team.
This would have allowed her to bypass
the Olympic trials altogether, which
she said she felt could prove to be too
stressful. Because she failed to do so,
she said she will use the experience she
gained through the negative outcomes
to deal with the pressure of the trials.
"It's sobering, what can happen,"
Forrester said of the past letdowns. "I
know if I go to the trials I will be too
stressed. I'll use (the experiences) to
calm me down and not go in expecting
too much. "(People) say 'you have
three more years,' but I don't care -
that's just three more years."
Besides the personal goals that ath-
letes like Forrester set for themselves,
Canada's national pride is also at stake
when competing in the trials, and not
just because the team chosen will rep-
resent Canada in the Olympics.
Some of Canada's best athletes are
lured to America by the promise of col-
legiate athletic scholarships, some-
thing Canadian universities do not
offer. This leads many Canadians to
consider the Olympic trials to be the
testing grounds not only for the skills
of individual athletes, but for the
nationality of the training program
they go through to hone those skills -
American or Canadian.
"It becomes the story a lot of the
time - which is the better system,"
says MacDonald of the trials. "It's
been a long-standing debate, (so) the
media pits one guy against another,
and it becomes a matter of North ver-
sus South."
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