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7 Brief amt. of time
11 Karaoke need,
briefly
14 Slanted
15 With 34-Across,
concert band
instrument
16 Big fuss
17 Parody involving
molten rock?
19 Sneaky job
20 APA member?:
Abbr.
21 Med. test
22 Eight-time co-star
of Joan Crawford
24 Teeth: Pref.
27 Note
28 Wind god’s
whaling weapon?
33 Crybaby
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35 Arctic flier
36 Stalling-for-time
syllables
37 Honor earned by
27 Super Bowl
QBs
39 Light lead-in
41 Scoreboard fig.
42 Director
Preminger
44 It borders It.
46 Sparkling wit
48 Blubbering
Belgian?
51 8th-century
Japanese capital
52 Runs while
standing
53 Try a new color on
55 June portrayer in
“Henry & June”
56 Repeat, but more
softly each time
60 First name in
shipping
61 Hollywood
harlequin?
65 Java
66 Eclectic quarterly
digest
67 Hard to read,
maybe
68 Animal in some
fables
69 He says to
Cordelia, “Thy
truth, then, be thy
dower”
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2 Pastures
3 Home team at
Cleveland’s “The
Q”
4 Uninterrupted
5 Mph
6 Former PBS host
LeShan
7 Place setting
items
8 Tough march
9 1940s stage for
Ike
10 __ eel
11 Apple with a
Force Touch
trackpad
12 Fan club focus
13 Lane-closing
sight
18 Physical 
leader?
23 Gear on stage
25 Kind of tchr.
26 Buddhist state
27 Klinger’s first
name on
“M*A*S*H”
28 Vital supply line
29 Where to find
Java
30 Magic show prop
31 __ the cold

32 Democratic
donkey drawer
33 Litter cry
38 Wrinkly little dog
40 __ Royale,
Michigan
43 Skin care brand
45 Pool party?
47 Be the subject of,
as a painting
49 Furious
50 Not much at all
53 Indian noble

54 Love deity
55 Forearm bone
57 Egyptian
Christian
58 “The thing with
feathers / That
perches in the
soul”: Dickinson
59 Cameo stone
62 Suburban trailer?
63 The Trojans of
the Pac-12
64 “Alice” spinoff

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Sports
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
Thursday, March 31, 2016 — 5A

More than a game for Halle Wangler

Senior leaves 
Michigan with 

few statistics but a 

major impact

By BRAD WHIPPLE 

Daily Sports Editor

In three years, Halle Wangler 

has played just 20 minutes while 
donning a Michigan uniform, but 
she’s content with that.

In 18 games, the fifth-year 

senior guard has scored only one 
basket for the Wolverines, but that 
doesn’t matter to her. She wouldn’t 
want to be remembered for how 
many points she scored anyway.

What matters to her is being 

remembered for how she made 
people feel.

“I’m a very loud and energetic 

person,” Wangler said. “That 
kind of shows (other players) that 
it’s not just work. It’s just having 
enthusiasm, love and passion that 
you show through your work ethic 
or just being on the court and what 
you do.”

The road to Michigan was by no 

means an easy one for Wangler. But 
for her, basketball is therapeutic. It 
has always been an outlet for her to 
escape daily life, and having that 
opportunity with the Wolverines is 
one she has dreamt of as long as she 
can remember.

Michigan has rooted itself 

deeply into the Wangler family for 
the past half-century, and it’s why 
Halle felt like it was the right place 
to be. Her father, John, played 
quarterback from 1976 to 1980, 
and now her brothers play under 
that same banner.

While her father and brothers 

are bound to the gridiron, Halle 
found a place of her own — the 
hardwood of Crisler Center. It 
was almost by a stroke of luck 
that Wangler ended up playing 
at Michigan under fourth-year 
coach Kim Barnes Arico, but luck 
doesn’t explain it all.

* * *

If football in Ann Arbor is a 

religion, Wangler never skipped 
church. As a kid, the Royal Oak, 
Mich., native always went to 
games with her family, and John’s 
connections 
to 
the 
program 

allowed his daughter to meet his 
former teammates at the alumni 
tent outside the Big House.

Wangler also met her father’s 

former coach, Bo Schembechler, 
who held her at football games 
and regularly spoke with the 
Wangler family.

At home, Halle’s grandparents 

went “the whole nine yards” and 
have decked out their Christmas 
tree in maize and blue since the 
’70s. According to John, they truly 
“force-fed” the Michigan tradition 
to the Wangler children.

“Growing up, it surrounds you,” 

Halle said. “It becomes a part of 
who you are.”

Oddly enough, though, Wangler 

had the Michigan State bug up 
until her early teens.

In her green and white phase, 

Wangler had a signed photo of 
Michigan State men’s basketball 
coach Tom Izzo as well as an 
autographed basketball in her 
room. By chance, she played for 
an AAU team called the Spartans 
alongside current Michigan State 
forward Aerial Powers.

Eventually, Wangler came to 

the conclusion that Michigan was 
where she was meant to be. In a 
household built around the block 
‘M’, it was almost inevitable.

“It was a battle, a tug of war for 

her affections,” John said. “In the 
end, she came to her senses.”

* * *

John Wangler never wanted 

to push his kids into athletics. 
If they gravitated toward them, 
he’d do everything in his power 
to help them be successful. But at 
the end of the day, he just wanted 
them to do whatever they were 
passionate about.

Jack and Jared ultimately picked 

football and now have spots on the 
Michigan roster as a wide receiver 
and linebacker, respectively. Sierra 
is now a freshman at the University, 
but isn’t involved in collegiate 
athletics.

For Halle, having a basketball in 

her hands just felt right.

“There’s nothing worse than if 

your parent wants it more than the 
child does,” John said. “That was 
never the case. I’m happy with my 
career and enjoyed every second 
of it. I don’t have to live through 
my kids.”

According to John, “genes and 

ability can only take you so far” 
in athletics. To him, the number 
one thing he needed to instill 
in his kids was a work ethic. If 
the four Wanglers could put the 
time in and be willing to work at 
something, they were going to be 
great at it. 

Once a Michigan quarterback 

under Schembechler, John knew 
exactly what it took to be great.

After John worked his way 

to the top of Michigan’s depth 
chart, future NFL Hall of Famer 
Lawrence Taylor sacked him in 
the 1979 Gator Bowl, rupturing 
two cross ligaments in his knee 
and sending him on a long journey 
toward recovery.

John returned for a fifth year 

once his knee healed, but being 
less than 100 percent made him 
so frustrated that he considered 
quitting the team. At one practice, 
he 
wasn’t 
playing 
well 
and 

Schembechler told him he was 
the “dumbest quarterback in the 
history of intercollegiate football,” 
to which John replied, “That’s a 
long time, coach.”

Given 
John’s 
arduous 

recovery, 
Schembechler 

knew 
the 
worst 
possible 

punishment and kicked him out 
of practice. But that, coupled 
with a major tongue-lashing in 
Schembechler’s office the next 
day, didn’t stop Wangler from 
fighting his way back to the top.

That year, the top was leading 

Michigan to a 1981 Rose Bowl 
victory in Pasadena, Calif. 

Twenty-five years later, when 

Halle — then a seventh grader 
— had a bad game, she didn’t 
get a “good job” from her father. 
Instead, he cut right to the chase.

“You’ll be an average player,” 

John told her, the same way 
Schembechler would have told 
him.

“Average” wasn’t in her father’s 

vocabulary, 
which 
made 
the 

comment even more hurtful. But 
Halle knew she didn’t want to be 
average. She didn’t want her dad 
to utter the word again.

That night, Halle went to the 

backyard and started dribbling.

“If you hang in there, do what 

you’re supposed do, you keep your 
nose down and you stay focused,” 
John said, “somehow you end 
up coming out on top and end up 
coming out of the pack.

“It’s not some crazy theory or 

philosophy. It’s kind of a way of 
life.”

Whether 
it 
was 
a 
crazy 

philosophy or not, it was exactly 
what his daughter needed to hear 
years later when she considered 
quitting basketball.

* * *

During Wangler’s freshman 

year of high school, her mom 
passed away.

“That had a very, very hard 

impact on the kids,” John said. 
“That’s a tough thing that no one 
should have to deal with, and (my 
kids have) come through it and 
battled through it. There’s always 

setbacks. Everybody gets knocked 
down, and it’s how you get back 
up. That’s how you’re judged.”

For an overwhelmed Halle, 

throwing in the towel on basketball 
seemed like a highly viable option. 
Her 
father 

thought 
differently.

He told her 

she needed to 
feel it out for 
one more game. 
If she gave it 
her best effort 
and played like 
it was her last 
game, she could 
make a decision.

In that one game, Wangler had 

a good enough performance to 
realize basketball was something 
she needed. She couldn’t afford to 
give it up.

“I forgot about all the stuff 

that was going on at home and 
elsewhere,” Wangler said. “My 
freshman year is when I realized 
I can overcome anything that’s 
thrown my way.

“Basketball was more than just 

a sport. It was therapeutic for 
me. It was my thing, (and) it has 
helped me get through a lot, too.”

In high school at Royal Oak 

Shrine, 
Wangler 
attended 

both the boys and girls’ varsity 

basketball 
practices. 
Outside regular 
practice hours, 
John or Shrine 
women’s 
basketball 
coach 
Bill 

LeGault would 
open 
up 
the 

gym 
for 
her 

whenever 
she 

wanted. Early in the morning or 
late at night, Wangler dribbled 
alone in a dedication to prove her 
internal strength. Even at home, 
she’d play pick-up games against 
her brothers. 

John 
saw 
his 
daughter 

was 
obsessed 
with 
getting 

better, obsessed with proving 
herself. For Halle, that meant 
playing collegiate basketball — 
something that wasn’t average.

“She 
threw 
herself 
into 

basketball,” John said. “Even 
when her mother passed, I think 
that was her outlet. She really 
put herself into it, and that really 
was what took her mind off all 
the hardship. I think it really was 
a outlet for her and a release.”

During 
her 
early 
years, 

Wangler recalled conversations 
she 
had 
with 
Schembechler 

as well as the stories she has 
heard about Michigan’s revered 
coach through her father. One of 
Schembechler’s teachings stood 
out the most: perseverance. 

“(Bo) really knew how to push 

you to the point where you didn’t 
think you’d make it, but then you 
made it and became great,” Halle 
said. “Perseverance is something 
that my dad learned from Bo, 
because at one point, he didn’t 
even think he was going to be 
able to play football ever again.”

Wangler 
didn’t 
think 
she 

would play basketball either, 
but in her junior year at Shrine, 
she was offered a basketball 
scholarship 
from 
Oakland 

University. She accepted right 
away and headed to Oakland in 

the fall of 2011.

It wasn’t Michigan, but she 

didn’t want to experience life 
without basketball.

* * *

In 
June 
2013, 
Oakland 

women’s basketball coach Beckie 
Francis was fired. A month later, 
the Detroit Free Press released a 
report in which 15 former players 
stated Francis had “fixated on 
their weights … pushed her 
religious beliefs … (and) engaged 
in intimidation and emotional 
abuse.” 
With 
the 
program 

shrouded in controversy, Wangler 
decided it was time to transfer.

Wangler had worked hard to 

make it to the collegiate level, 
and that progress was at stake. 
The first obvious choice was 
Michigan, 
which 
combined 

academics, 
basketball 
and 

family tradition all into one. The 
Wolverines didn’t take many 
walk-ons, so her father called 
in a favor to Michigan men’s 
basketball coach John Beilein, 
whose son Mark had previously 
worked for him.

Beilein briefed Barnes Arico 

on what Michigan meant to 
the Wanglers, and what the 
Wanglers meant to Michigan. 
It was a shot in the dark for 
Halle, but when Barnes Arico 
finally met her, she knew she had 
discovered something unique.

“The 
minute 
I 
had 
an 

opportunity to meet Halle, I 
knew that I wanted her on our 
team,” Barnes Arico said. “Her 
enthusiasm, her passion, her zest 
for life was something I wanted 
our team to be around.”

Added Wangler: “I feel like 

God puts you where you’re meant 
to be at certain times in your life. 
I think that my time in Oakland 
was supposed to be then, and 
then he put me here.”

The first week of Michigan 

practice was excruciating for 
Wangler, and all she could do 
was laugh.

Oakland’s conditioning didn’t 

nearly compare to Michigan’s. 
From day one, the reality set in: 
Welcome to the Big Ten.

Read the full version of this 
story at MichiganDaily.com

DELANEY RYAN/Daily

Senior Halle Wangler has played sparingly since transferring from Oakland, but she’ll leave a legacy in the women’s basketball program with the character she showed.

“I forgot about all 
the stuff that was 
going on at home 
and elsewhere.”

