The Michigan Daily - Monday, June 17, 2002 - 15

'M' NOTES
Lowery added to
Maloney's staff
Michigan baseball coach Rich
Maloney has made the first move in
assembling his coaching staff. Last
week, Maloney hired John Lowery
as an assistant coach. Lowery was
Maloney's pitching coach at Ball
State and coached the Cardinals for
the last eight years, seven under
Maloney.
"I'm excited to have Lowery, my
top assistant at Ball State, come
with me to Michigan," Maloney
said.
"John is an outstanding pitching
coach who has been extremely loyal.
He will do a great job with the
pitching staff here and he has the
same belief and vision that I have
for the Michigan baseball program."
Lowery has had at least one
pitcher drafted in the MLB Draft
over the last seven years, including
three first-round picks in five years
and this years' No. I overall pick,
Bryan Bullington. This year alone,
Lowery's hurlers garnered three all-
conference honors, and Bullington
was named an All-American.
In his tenure as pitching coach,
Lowery's pitchers have earned All-
MAC honors 18 times, including 14
in the past five seasons.
Lowery is no stranger to Big Ten
baseball. An alum of Minnesota,
Lowery played for four seasons
with the Golden Gophers (1989-
1992). Lowery was 3-0 with three
complete games in three starts
against Michigan.
- Staff reports
Earl verbally commits
to icers for 2003 class
The Michigan hockey team has
added another recruit, Robbie Earl,
from the U. S. National Team Devel-
opment Program for 2003. This is the
fourth recruit from the program and
the Wolverines' fifth recruit overall.
Michiganhockey.net reported that Earl
has verbally committed to Michigan.
Last season, Earl was fourth in scor-
ing for the U.S. NTDP Under-17 Team
with 22 goals and 16 assists in 58
games. Michigan has had success with
other U.S. NTDP alumni, including
sophomores Eric Nystrom, Jason Ryz-
nar, Dwight Helminen and junior
Mike Komisarek.

Men's crew overtakes
varsity teams at IRA

By Bob Hunt
Daily Spts Fietor
To an outsider, it looked like the ulti-
mate mismatch.
At a preliminary heat at the Intercol-
legiate Rowing Association National
Championships, the freshman eight
boat of two-time defending national
champion California stood in one lane.
Next to it stood Michigan, one of just
two nonvarsity teams at the meet.
Before the starting gun burst, the
announcer told the crowd about the
Wolverines' trials and tribulations -
the extra hurdles they have in front of
them each time they take the water.
But 500 meters into the race, it did-
n't look like the ultimate mismatch
anymore as Michigan and California
were neck-and-neck. One thousand
meters later, as both squads were still
going stroke-for-stroke in the 2,000-
meter race, California's coxswain
yelled to the rowers, "Just another ten
(meters) and this is over. We will
break them." After all, Michigan was
a lowly club team that had watched a
documentary on the Bears' back-to-
back national titles.
However, it was California who
broke. The Wolverines pulled away,
leaving California and Northeastern,
two of the best varsity programs in the
nation, behind them.
But for Michigan men's crew, this is
nothing new.
The Wolverines, competing against
programs with multi-million dollar
budgets, finished sixth as a team two
weekends ago at the IRA in New Jersey
- Michigan's highest ever showing at
rowing's biggest event. Michigan fin-
ished ahead of programs that were

established in the 1800s such as Penn-
sylvania, Dartmouth and Brown.
"We really peaked at the right time,"
coach Greg Hartsuff said. "This is one
of the best years as a coach that I did at
preparing the guys for racing at the
national championships. They went in
there physically at their best."
While the Wolverines success war- Despiteh
rants praise, what's most amazing about its best s
the Michigan men's crew program is the
fact that they operate with little finan- "Looki
cial support from the University and schools th
athletes who have never rowed before. er, it's fun
"I had never seen an eight-man boat them," B
before I saw one out on the diag," said that we re
Casey Scholz, a member of the fresh- To fun(
man eight boat that finished second at staff and
the IRA. has to pay
Scholz played football at Portage pay for th
Northern High School in Portage, fundrais
Mich. and wanted to participate in "Rent-a-I
sports at Michigan. After his parents ers lend t
had talked to parents of older former and do o
football players at Portage Northern
who rowed for the Wolverines, he
wanted to give it a shot. Before he
knew it, crew became one of the cen-
terpieces in his college career.
One of the older rowers who had
come from the Portage Northern foot-
ball program was Scott Dresden. Dres-
den remembers racing in the Head of
the Charles during the fall of his fresh-
man year. The banks of the river were
loaded with people as the nation's top
teams went against each other before
the long winter training.
"When you get six boats across and
you break into a sprint at the very end,
it gets addicting," Dresden said.
For the 70 members of the team,
going against the traditional power-
houses is always a thrill.

having the odds stacked against it, the Michigan men's crew team had
eason in its history with a sixth-place finish at nationals,

ng at Ivy League schools and
at have been doing this forev-
n to go out there and frustrate
resden said. "It's something
ally thrive on.:'
id the program's full coaching
extensive budget, each rower
y $1,500 each year in dues. To
ese dues, the team has various
ing activities, such as the
Rower" program, where row-
themselves to local residents
dd jobs around their homes.

The team also sells merchandise and
holds other events during the year.
Its fundraising efforts have given
Michigan a coaching staff that puts the
team above all other club teams and on
par with varsity programs.
"Sometimes one coach won't be able
to see something that another coach
can," Dresden said. "When we're out
on the water, we're never out there by
ourselves. We've always got a coach
helping out."
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