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Wednesday, May II. 19X3
The Red and Black
Pag* 7
Cohen to end best year
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By MICHAEL CLEMENTS
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Since she began playing
tennis at the relatively late
age of 13, Nancy Cohen has
been addicted to the game
As the NCAA tennis
championships in
Albuquerque, N M. ap
proach, Cohen, who'll being
playing doubles with Lisa
Spain, said her infatuation
with the sport is still as
strong as ever
Cohen first began playing
tennis competitively at
Palmetto High School in
Miami, Fla. She played both
tennis and basketball there,
starting at guard on the
basketball team and playing
No 4 singles and No. 1
doubles on the tennis team.
At the close of her high
school career, Cohen had to
choose between the two
sports
"1 finally chose tennis,"
Cohen said, “because I felt
that I could become better in
the long run in tennis rather
than in basketball "
Former tennis coach Greg
McGarity recruited Cohen
He said he first saw her play
in the Crackerland tennis
tournament held at Henry
Feild Stadium every sum
mer.
"You could tell she would
be a good college tennis
prospect,” McGarity said,
"then the recruiting process
started She was a great
athlete, an excellent ball
player,”
"I knew it would be a
challenge to come to
Georgia, and I've never
regretted my decision,"
Cohen said.
Cohen's first year on the
Lady Bulldogs tennis team
was not spectacular, she
said, but steady She played
No 5 singles and No. 2
doubles
"My main problem was
conentration," Cohen said
"I played an attacking game
and if I missed a shot, I'd
lose it (her concentration)."
Of her sophomore year at
Georgia, Cohen said she had
Cohen returned for her
junior year with the Lady
Bulldogs and played No. 2
doubles with Dot Higgins
and No. 4 singles
"I thought I played well
last year, especially in
doubles,” Cohen said "My
style of play is suited ideally
for doubles because I play an
aggressive net game.
"Dot and I had a 24-5
record, and I thought we
were good enough to receive
a bid to the NCAA tour
nament," Cohen said. "But
when you play No. 2 doubles,
you need nearly a perfect
record to recei ve a bid."
During Cohen’s junior
year, the I^ady Dogs had a
new head coach, Lee Myers
She points to the arrival of
Myers as the single greatest
factor in her improvement
"Lee has helped my game
incredibly," Cohen said.
"She’s the best coach I’ve
ever had She's not only
improved my tennis game,
but she’s matured me as a
person. Lee looks to your
future and helps you to deal
with situations that might
occur later in life. Tennis is
secondary with her."
With the coaching
assistance from Myers,
Cohen said she has made her
senior season her best.
"Before my senior season
began. I set one goal for
myself - to pull out all stops
and go for it," Cohen said. "I
wanted to just play tennis
and concentrate on having a
great year. I knew it was my
senior year, so I wanted to
play the best tennis that I
possibly could."
Myers had nothing but
praise for Cohen’s play this
season.
"She has probably played
her best tennis since she's
been at Georgia because she
has come to grips with her
emotions and hcreelf,"
Myers said.
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her worst season by far.
Cohen alternated at No 5
and 6 singles while playing
at No. 3 doubles
“I believe it was the
traveling," Cohen said. “In
high school you only traveled
.Isa Spain in doubles at Ui
three months of the year, but
in my freshman year, I was
on the road for nine months.
The rigors of traveling
finally got to me. I even
thought about quitting the
team, but I stuck with it.”
NCAA Championships
Playing doubles that year
with Susan Sadri, Cohen
nearly won the Southeastern
Conference title at No. 3
doubles The pair reached
the finals in the SECs, but
lost to Florida 6-3,6-4.
Loyal Americans
should down a few
You ve no doubt already seen and heard
the advertising blitz "Let's win the Games
again.
And then go have a few Miller beers to
celebrate our resounding victory over the
godless Eastern bloc
Seriously, next time you soak your
sorrows in Miller beer, you will be
displaying your patriotic support for our
Olympic resurgence Miller is organizing a
training center for our Olympians and is
financing it with set donations per every
can that come off the grocery store shelf
at Miller time
Jimmy Buffett would be proud So would
a high school chum of mine We used to buy
Miller beers by the eight pack (“Baby
eights" he would call themi and engage in
the No 1 American sport, drinking-and-
driving He always insisted we buy "baby-
eights" because they were best contoured
to the human hand and therefore most
suitable for throwing at stop signs as we
sped past
I remember one night we went 15 for 16
on stop signs You want to win the Olympics
again? Make “stop-sign smashing" an
Olympic sport and send me and my, chum
over to Yugoslavia For practice we could
pick off a few East German women
weightlifters
I am touched by Miller's selfless cam
paign to help bring the gold back to the red.
white and blue, although the association is
a bit strange. Building an athletic training
center with purchases of beer is like fun
ding an emphyzema cure with royalties
from cigarette purchases
Aside from beer's generic incongruency
with physical fitness comes a couple of
other minor merchandising miscues First,
shouldn't Olympia beer be allowed to
sponsor any fund-raising scheme con
cerning the Olympics It does have the
copyright on the name
And with all respect for Miller <as a beer
it's a great shampoo), if Budweiser or
Coors were allowed to sponsor the training
center instead, it would be bigger, better
and more inspirational I’ve seen how
successful the Budweiser racing teams
'boat, car, plane, Clydesdales) are por
trayed on their commercials Why I’d even
bet we could beat the Chinese in pingpong if
we played them on a table decorated with
the Budweiser logo
Or maybe the Russians would play us for
a Michelob Light
I definitely think the wholesale addition
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of alcoholic beverages would be beneficial
to our Olympic effort. If nothing else, we
could get other countries' representatives
to the International Olympic Committee
drunk enough to let us make football, video
games and poker - games the United
States could whip anybody's butt at —
Olympic sports
Think of the other event possibilities beer
and liquor could add to the Games
• Olympic beer-case stackupe Another
guaranteed gold medal for the screaming
eagle
• Chugging I've got another high school
chum in mind for this event, except I think
he's gone pro
• I would volunteer to represent my
country in The World Stop Sign Smashing
Championships It's a dirty job, I know, but
somebody would have to do it.
If adding all these entirely new events
seems too radical, the IOC could just com
bine alcohol with existing Olympic events:
• Men's Downhill Brewskiing is an event
I couldn't resist watching
• t en-ounce curls . instead of the clean
and jerk) That would put us on a more
even footing with that walking Russian
refrigerator that wins weightlifting every
year
• Re-cycling First country to find too
beer cans in a vacant lot gets a medal The
cans have to be made from aluminum, of
course
Yessiree, adding cocktails to the Olympic
Games would certainly put the majority of
the medals back in the good ole U S of A.’e
brown paper bag And since Happy Hour is
nearing, I’ll sign off here, with the thought
of going to a local bar to start my rigorous
training regimen just in case any of this
fantasy becomes fact in time for the 1884
Olympic Games in Los Angeles It’s the
least I can do to support my country
Edward Thomas is a first-year graduate
student in speech communication
STUDENT AFFAIRS
The Lunch Bunch, an informal gathering
of nontraditional students, will have a guest
speaker Nancy McaNair of the University
Health Services, Thursday, May 12, at 12 noon
in the Bulldog Room (reserved room at end of
corridor on Bookstore side, t Ms. MacNair will
speak on the topic of Health Needs of Non-
traditonal Students. Come and have lunch
with us and meet Nancy MacNair
This information hat been submitted by the
Office of the Vice President of Student Affairs
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