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The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
Thursday, October 1, 2015 — 5A

‘M’ drops rivalry 
game to Spartans

By TYLER COADY

For the Daily

Having sat on the periphery 

of the national rankings all 
season, Michigan State came into 
Wednesday 
night’s 
matchup 
against 
Michigan with a point to prove.

After the Spartans’ victory 

over Michigan (1-2 Big Ten, 11-3 
overall), they left Jenison Field 
House in East Lansing with little 
doubt they should be nationally 
ranked.

Led by outside hitters Alyssa 

Garvelink and Brooke Kranda, 
Michigan State (2-1, 10-4) proved 
adept at controlling play around 
the net and began to flex its 
muscles in the second set. The 
duo combined to record 18 kills in 
the match.

“We knew (Michigan State) is 

a good team, and there were no 
surprises going into this game,” 
said Michigan coach Mark Rosen. 
“We knew what they were going 
to do, but their execution was 
better in the latter stages of each 
set.”

Both teams came out strong 

in the first set, as both eyed 
their second Big Ten win of the 
season. The Wolverines, playing 
in a hostile atmosphere, silenced 
the crowd early behind some 
dominant play by sophomore 
outside hitter Adeja Lambert, 
who recorded 10 kills in the 
match. With a 16-14 lead in the 
set, the Wolverines looked poised 
to hang on and take the set. But 
two Michigan State aces and a 
barrage of difficult serves allowed 

the Spartans to build momentum 
and then eventually take a 1-0 
lead in the match.

As the second set progressed, 

Michigan State continued to 
pull away from Michigan, as the 
Spartans forced the Wolverines 
into 
numerous 
mistakes. 

Michigan, despite some strong 
play toward the end of the set, 
couldn’t muster enough offensive 
chances to threaten the Spartans.

“We did a good job early on, 

and we were consistent in our 
execution,” 
Rosen 
said. 
“As 

the sets went on, our passing 
deteriorated, (Michigan State) 
kept improving, and we realized 
that we need to work better 
together.”

In the third set, Michigan 

came out strong, looking to stay 
alive. Lambert notched another 
kill while senior middle blocker 
Krystalyn 
Goode 
racked 
up 

three of her own, helping the 
Wolverines to a quick 12-7 lead. 
But just as quickly as it took 
back the first set, Michigan State 
regained the form that saw it 
dominate the second set. Over the 
next several minutes, back-and-
forth play dominated the game. 
With the scoreboard reading 
21-21, Michigan State put its 
foot on the throttle, closing out 
Michigan and winning the next 
four points to clinch the victory.

With a rematch scheduled for 

Saturday in Ann Arbor, Rosen 
knows his team needs to improve.

“We need to compete better,” 

Rosen said. ”When we are leading 
late in the game we need to be 
more consistent in all aspects 
of the game, offensively and 
defensively.”

VOLLEYBALL
Murillo returns as leader

Senior captain 

steps in seamlessly 

on ‘M’ defense

By BETELHEM ASHAME

Daily Sports Writer

Good players are adept at 

catching up quickly to make up 
for lost time after injury or other 
circumstances, but great players 
possess the ability to take an 
extended period of time off 
without missing a beat.

Michigan senior captain and 

defender Christina Murillo is 
in a category all her own after 
taking the entire 2014 season 
off to train with the Mexican 
National Team in preparation 
for the 2015 FIFA Women’s 
World Cup. It didn’t take her 
long to return to her position as 
an integral part of the Michigan 
women’s soccer team.

“It was an instant, perfect fit,” 

said Michigan coach Greg Ryan. 
“It’s like when you put on a shoe 
and it’s just right — that was 
Christina Murillo on our back 
line. From day one, she’s done a 
great job of not only fitting in but 
also leading the rest of the team. 
If this was her first year, it would 
have taken longer, but since she 
knew all of the girls and played 
with them, it was seamless and 
effortless.”

Murillo credits the team’s 

response to her return and the 
experience she gained from 
national team training as key 
factors in her reintroduction to 
the rhythm of Michigan.

“It’s been fairly easy because 

of how the team has welcomed 
me back with open arms,” 
Murillo said. “In terms of 

school, it’s actually a lot easier 
to manage now because World 
Cup training is an environment 
where 
everything 
is 
about 

discipline and schedules. So 
I’ve been using the skills I’ve 
developed, where I incorporate 
a set time for everything, which 
allows me to be able to focus 
more at practice and be a better 
player at Michigan.”

As the leader of a defense that 

has produced four shutouts this 
season — including two in which 
it allowed just 11 shots combined 
against Nebraska and Iowa last 
weekend — Murillo was named 
Big Ten Defensive Player of the 
Week.

“Every time I’m playing, I’m 

doing whatever I can to help the 
team win that game,” Murillo 
said. “Our goal on defense is 
always to allow the least amount 
of shots, so I can really attribute 
our success as a defensive line to 
all four of us. It’s not just me, it’s 
the discipline of other starting 
players as well, so I’m just lucky 
to be in that defensive line.

“I don’t know if I necessarily 

deserve (it), because we wouldn’t 
have gotten those shutouts if 
it wasn’t for the other three 
players on our 
back line.”

Despite 

her 
modesty, 

Ryan 
fully 

recognizes the 
central 
role 

Murillo plays 
on the team.

“She 

definitely 
makes it all 
work at the 
back,” Ryan said. “She knows 
how to coordinate everyone, 
so she’s definitely the leader 
and organizer back there. She’s 

essentially the coach on the 
field, giving direction to the 
attack.”

In addition 

to 
her 

defensive 
prowess, 
Murillo is a 
key cog and 
frequent 
contributor on 
the 
offensive 

side 
of 
the 

ball, recording 
two assists in 
the 
opening 

weekend of Big Ten play.

“In the modern game of soccer, 

the way most teams are playing, 
your centerbacks touch the ball 

more than any other players,” 
Ryan said. “So when you have a 
centerback like Christina, who’s 
not only very comfortable with 
the ball in possession but who 
can also make those penetrating 
passes and create assists, you 
want her to have the ball as often 
as possible.”

Whenever a team loses an 

important player, there’s always 
a ripple effect on the mood 
and character of the rest of the 
team. The same is true when 
an important player returns to 
the fold. With the way Murillo 
is 
playing 
right 
now, 
the 

Wolverines couldn’t be happier 
to have her back in maize and 
blue for her senior season.

Shields brings experience 
as new goaltenders coach

Former Wolverine 
played for six NHL 
teams, won 100-
plus games for ‘M’

By KEVIN SANTO

Daily Sports Writer

While the rest of the Michigan 

hockey 
team 
was 
running 

through a power-play drill on 
Tuesday, the goaltenders were 
in their own corner of the rink 
working on distribution. 

Goaltending 
coach 
Steve 

Shields 
was 
putting 
them 

through fundamental drills of 
their own, using every minute 
he has while the coaches adhere 
to the two-hour weekly NCAA 
limitation, which lasts until 
Sunday.

Such a practice hasn’t been 

common for goaltenders Steve 
Racine (a senior) and Zach 
Nagelvoort (a junior), given that 
former goaltender coach Josh 
Blackburn could only commit to 
being on the ice with them two 
days a week last season.

Now, 
with 
the 
addition 

of 
Shields, 
the 
Wolverine 

netminders will be coached 
every day of the week, an 
opportunity 
that 
Michigan 

coach Red Berenson believes 
could drastically impact Racine 
and Nagelvoort’s performance.

Shields, 
who 
joined 
the 

coaching staff in May, is a 
former 
Michigan 
goaltender 

who made four straight NCAA 
Tournament appearances from 
1990 to 1994. He was a two-time 
All-American and the first at his 
position to reach 100 wins in 
NCAA history.

After he hung up the maize 

and blue sweater for the last 
time, Shields went on to play for 
six NHL teams.

And now that Shields’ playing 

days are over, his new goaltending 
apprentices are enthusiastic to 
learn from both his collegiate 
and NHL experience.

“(Blackburn 
and 
Shields) 

know what they did, what 
worked and what didn’t work, 
so I can trust what they’re 
saying,” Nagelvoort said. “Now 

having (Shields), he was really 
successful and had a great 
career. I just feel that much 
better having him on the ice. I 
have that much more faith in 
what he’s telling me, and I’m 
that much more comfortable 
with him.”

Added Racine: “Anytime you 

can get a guy like that helping 
you out, you value everything he 
says. Going forward, it’s going 
to be amazing just having him 
there every day. No days off. No 
days where we can kind of hide 
between certain things. He’s 
always going be there to critique 
us and tell us what we’re doing 
right and wrong. That’s just a 
great thing to have.”

Nagelvoort 
and 
Racine’s 

statistics were relatively similar 
last season as they split time in 
the net. Nagelvoort posted a 2.63 
goals-against 
average, 
.906 
save 

percentage 
and 
finished 

with 
an 

11-9 
record, 

while 
Racine 

recorded 
a 

2.94 
goals-

against 
average 
with 

a 
.908 
save 

percentage and an 11-6 record.

But despite their respectable 

statistics, both goaltenders went 
through slumps and struggled 
with inconsistency — an aspect 
that Shields noted. He has set out 
to bring the best attributes out of 
Nagelvoort and Racine on a day-
to-day basis by simplifying the 
goaltending process and forcing 
them to take a mathematical, 
rather than personal, approach 
to their mistakes.

“What I’ve tried to do with 

them is to strip everything down 
and not personalize everything. 
I want them to be able to go back 
and look at video of themselves, 
and take it on as sort of a math 
problem,” Shields said. “They’re 
just solving a problem. There’s 
no emotion in it. There’s no 
second thoughts about ‘how 
I played this, we lost a game 
because I did this.’ If we can take 
the stuff that they’ve done and 
look at it honestly, and say, ‘Well 

I can do this better and I can’t do 
that,’ then they’ll improve.”

Shields has said that his 

biggest responsibility as the 
new goaltending coach is to hold 
his players accountable every 
day they go on the ice or in the 
weight room. But in order to do 
that, he feels he first has to build 
a unique relationship with each 
goalie.

He’s inherited that philosophy 

from his own experience in the 
NHL, where he was first exposed 
to a goalie coach who was critical 
of him every day and was honest 
about his performances — but 
only after the two established a 
relationship.

By creating that rapport, 

Shields is trying to provide the 
Wolverines’ netminders with a 
unique experience he only got at 
the professional level.

In 
the 

simplest sense, 
each goalie has 
a metaphorical 
checklist, and 
Shields 
puts 

it on his own 
shoulders 
to 

make 
sure 

they 
check 

those 
boxes 

as the season 
progresses.

Shields has taken the first 

steps in that direction by having 
conversations with Nagelvoort, 
Racine 
and 
freshman 
Chad 

Catt in the spring. He had ideas 
about where the goaltenders 
could each improve simply from 
watching Michigan the past 
two years, and he constructed a 
program specific to each goalie 
that focuses on improving their 
weaknesses.

And while the Wolverine 

netminders 
hope 
to 
have 

breakout seasons under Shields’ 
instruction, 
he 
recognizes 

the 
progress 
won’t 
happen 

overnight.

“They have to understand 

that if they go out and they don’t 
play the way that they expect 
to play in practice, that they 
have to come back tomorrow 
and refocus,” Shields said. “My 
goalie coach said to me when I 
was that age: ‘Rome wasn’t built 
in a day’.”

ICE HOCKEY

MICH. ST.
MICHIGAN

3
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“They’re just 

solving a 

problem. There’s 
no emotion in it.”

SAM MOUSIGIAN/Daily

Christina Murillo is back after a year off training with Mexico’s national team.

“It’s like when 
you put on a 
shoe and it’s 
just right.”

