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Tuesday, April 2, 1996
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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All students, faculty, staff and local artists are welcome to apply!
Tennessee player left Notre Dame for chance at crown
Move pays off for Volunteer
The Associated Press
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Like many young people, Michelle Marciinai had to go somewhere else first to figure out where she really wanted to be.
For Marciniak, that was Notre Dame. But after one year, she knew she had made a mistake. She could have been a star at Notre Dame, but realized she would rather be a champion, so she called Tennessee coach Pat Summitt.
"I was talking to Pat and she asked, 'What's wrong? Why do you want to transfer?'" Marciniak said. "I said because I wanted to play for one of the best coaches in the country — I personally think she is the best coach in the country — and I wanted to have the opportunity to play for a national championship team."
Tennessee won that championship in Marcinik's final game as a Lady Volunteer, beating Southeastern Conference rival Georgia 83-65 Sunday night for the school's fourth NCAA title.
And Marciniak still got to be a star. She was voted the outstanding player in the Final Four.
"All I can say is, my dream came true," she said.
There were, however, plenty of rough moments along the way.
Marciniak is intense and headstrong, just like Summitt, and they clashed frequently. Marciniak's game was flash and dash. Her favorite move was a spinning drive to the basket. A sports writer dubbed her "Spinderella."
Michelle Marciniak
Tennessee senior guard
Summitt wanted to make Marciniak into a point guard, which meant she had to play in control. With tough love — yelling and screaming mixed with hugs and encouragement — Summitt won out.
"Michelle's a great person," Summit said. "She's been a challenge to coach, I'll tell you that, primarily because we're a lot alike. It's hard to get along with someone that's as stubborn as you are.
"But I respect the fact that Michelle's a great competitor, and she works hard. I never had to go to practice and motivate Michelle. If anything, I had to slow her down. She's very special in many ways."
Umpire dies behind the plate from a heart attack
All the more so because Summitt,
eight months pregnant, went into
labor during a recruiting trip to
Marciniak's home in Macungie, Pa.
She cut the visit short and flew
back to Knoxville in time for Tyler
Summitt to be born there.
Now 5 years old, Tyler climbed a stepladder with his mother Sunday night to finish the ceremonial cutting down of the net. Marciniak wore the net around her neck at the postgame news conference.
"She played like a champion,"
CINCINNATI — Umpire John McSherry died yesterday after collapsing in the first inning of the Reds' season opener against the Montreal Expos. A Reds doctor said McSherry likely had a major heart attack.
The Associated Press
"We went through a lot just in the decision for her to go to Notre Dame," Summitt said. "We normally don't take transfers, so that was another decision. Do we take Michelle or not?
said Summitt, who could smile and laugh about all she had gone through with Marciniak.
"Major league umpire John McSherry was pronounced dead at 3:04 p.m. EST," University of Cincinnati Hospital spokeswoman Francine
"And then she told me that if I didn't take her, she was going to either Virginia or Rutgers. I said, 'Well come on to Tennessee.'"
The defining moment in that game occurred when Connecticut's Jennifer Rizzotti drove the length of the floor and beat Marcinik with a crossover dribble for a layup that put the Huskies ahead to stay.
Marciniak came tantalizingly close to realizing her dream last year. Tennessee went all the way to the NCAA title game, only to lose Connecticut 70-64.
"She was heartbroken last year," Summitt said. "We spent a lot of time looking at that film and talking about her game. I'm really proud of her, so happy for her that her dream did come true.
"And it came true because she was willing to make some adjustments in her game to help our basketball team."
In an interesting twist of fate, Tennessee faced Connecticut in the national semifinals Friday night and won 88-83 in overtime. And in that game, Maricini drove and scored on, yes, a spin move. Against Rizzotti, no less.
Spinderella lived, if only for a moment.
"I personally would like to thank Pat for believing in me and sticking by me," Marciniak said. "Because I wasn't a point guard coming out of high school. She had a lot to do with the transition. That's why we're sitting up here. She believed in me."
Crawfordsaid.
The game, which was seven pitches old at the time, will be played from the start today.
McSherry, 51, listed at 328 pounds, had medical problems in the past.
Last August, he was forced to leave a game between Atlanta and Chicago because of heat exhaustion. In 1993, he left a game in Cincinnati against Los Angeles after becoming ill in 87-degree heat.
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