European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 11, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday March 11, 1969 the stars and stripes Page 25 Scherr Wiz sure wins in wafer by Tom Saunders staff writer Munich West Germany Mike. Scherwitz knifed through the. Water smoothly. Each powerful reach and nig of his arms and fluttering combinations of kicks of the feet propelled him that much farther ahead of his opponents. To the spirited 18-year-old . Swimming seems As natural As staring is to an owl. There is no hesitation in his style. It s hit the water and cruise. Chug a lug full Speed ahead. Sch Wilz Seldom looks to see where the other swimmers arc probably because he d have to urn almost All the Way around to spot them. He is a Barracuda in the Pool. Speed Freak of the swim tank. Not much excitement needed to gel him going degenerates his own thrills much As he did in sunday s european forces swim league championships. He s a go the Evin Rudds Are churning. Isahc Wilz Hopes his motors push him to the 1992 olympics in bar Celona Spain. If his performance is any indication of Scherwitz s eagerness to get to Flar Celona let s hold a 1990 olympics so As to not hold this Guy Back. Sch Irwin emerged from Munich s Olympia stadium swim Hall the site of the meet with iwo Fesl records and a near miss. League rules limit a swimmer to Only three events not including , Scherwitz might be come close to accomplishing 3 Cal turned in by another swimmer with the . ? Amark spit won seven Gold medals. Four individual four relays. Inthe same Pool Back in 1972 during the Munich olympics. Sch Erviti turned the Calm Pool into a boiling pot of water  200 individual Nicley his first Eveni of the Day. And talk about Piranha instincts. He showed no mercy for his kid brother 15-year-old Rusty in the 15-19-year age category. The elder brother hit la  like a Hull bound torpedo chewing up1 and tossing aside the. Water. Vicious move ments Yel so Silky Graceful. Big brother finished in 2 18.38, knocking two seconds Oft the league record. He glided in two body lengths ahead of shape s Tom Bendixen who recorded a 2 26.06. Younger brother placed third with230.61, but that was Cool. It s better than 1 expected. 1 was looking Al fourths or fifths All  i be been finishing  Rusty said of his first season in the 15-19 swimming category. The Oun or brother he of hairstyle clique lie with the Zig Zag racing stripes where go Whit Walls usually arc respects his brother but enjoys the Chase. In i srl9 category is arc Alcomb Elii Ion and i d love to beat  said. Mike counters As the two stand Side by Side he s got incentive because he s chasing me. But i won t let him beat me. I d never hear the end of thai  Mike went right to business in the top freestyle his second event leaving the docks with motors roaring by first. Mike Scherwitz Center gets along swimmingly with dad Lee and brother Rusty. Turn on the 50-Melcr Pool Only Stutt Gart s Mike Vahlsing measured  threat scale bul barely. With 75 me ters gone Vahlsing who might pc been. Able to touch the Leader s too at the  turn slipped a Little farther  clocked in at 56.40 0,16 off the league record. Vahlsing s time was 57.99. ". Sch Wilz also won the 100 Butterfly in record time with a 1 01.23, Knock ing 0.09 second off the record he previously held with a 1 01,32, big wins not As big As inc wins he d like to experience in 1992. Sure it fell Good winning the Fesl titles Scherwitz said. But he knows that the Road gets tougher from Here and that if the olympics Are in his plans he d belter Pian to Irain. He has the fuel to make the trip but you have to watch those motors make sure they re tuned right. Train ing Fine tuning is the key to Suc Cess. Training has to intensify. Freight training. Move lots of cargo. He warms to inc thought of going to the olympics his mind races. It la take Lotsi of hard training he said of what he needs to do to make the . Olympic swim learn. He Hopes inc Campus of Eastern Michigan University where his 19-year-Ojd sister Bonnie is a Sophomore will give him an Avenue to find Good training. His1 current Avenue he explains is i m on a German National swim team. We have a Eccl coming up in a few weeks and i la be competing against swimmers from several coun tries including  he jumps Back to the topic of East Ern Michigan i Haven t heard if i be been accepted. They Emu Are Wail ing for the results of this Fesl Cham  Back to training and the polyp mics there s a Chance of me making in 10 the 92 olympics.,., tie Way i be been swimming inc last eight years in Low level training environments. Back in the Stales 1 should Knock a lot off my times just because the Nam ing is belter. The times i m doing no Ware ranking High with stateside col Leges " " Scherwitz is Welt aware of the Cru Cial word work. All that  hours. Solitude. Him and the water. Fatigue.,. I will the Walcer Tigirt to feel abit colder How Mong until those ii Lac Ripples in inc Pool urn into tidal Waves Cap sizing the motivation i be got another five years left in me before i Burn out Mike Scherwitz  then. Rusty should he gearing up for his shot. He already has ambitions. I m already beating Mike s times when he was my age Rusty said hot ing that i d like to go to the 1996  Why not 1992? ill Stilt be in High school Rusty  the dad. Lee Scherwitz a Gruff senior master sergeant assigned to Simbach a West Germany dreams of the olympics. His Mike s goals and our goals arc the 1992 olympics in  said routine a touch of that prophecy of self fulfilment if you say you can you  dad recalled another dream they  in 1981-82, i had four kids swimming in the Fesl Bonnie Mike Chuck the Middle son at 17 years old and Rusty. Our dream As a family was to have a four person relay team that could beat everyone he said once again routinely. He added Chuck was a social swimmer and was1 in it for the camaraderie,.he was t a competitive the dad paused. He seemed to understand thai he still had Leo dreams to sleep on he looked at his two sons Mike and Rusty. In turn. Rusty looked Al Mike Mike looked Back Al Rusty they seem to agree 92 belongs to Mike. Rusly can have 96. Sorasu Phoenix Ariz. A Gene Cady reportedly has agreed to become head basketball coach at Arizona slate but the Pur due coach won t confirm the  Arizona Republic reported Friday it was told by a source that Keady agreed to accept the Arizona state Post and that inc to pc school would buy out Cady contract with the boilermakers. The source was not , inc Republic also reported that Cady told a close Friend thursday that he had not. Been offered the Job that no. Deal had been struck and. That nothing was Immi nent. " meanwhile the Arizona Board of. Regents cancelled scheduled Confer ence Call Friday cad morning regarding the vacancy created feb. 4 when Steve Patterson resigned. It was deferred until Early next week by Mutual agreement said Rick wan a mgr Asu s assistant sports information director. He declined to comment on Progress in selecting a coach. After coaching inc boilermakers to an83-53 Victory Over Ohio state in Wisl Lara tic ind., thursday night Cady said he did n t. Want to comment about the Arizona slate Post i m interested Only in coaching this team and that s ii he  did acknowledge talking to Ari Zona stale Allelic director Charles har Ris As reported thursday by Llie journal and courier in Lafay Kllc. Ind.\. "1 have talked to or Harris this past week Cady Sald. To just listened and he talked. It was not for a Long period of Lime. All i m interested in is coaching this team against Northwestern and into a tournament. And that s Iti i love it Here bul if in would help my family in would be something to look into. I want logo through with in in the proper Way. 1 will Tell or. King first und Ihnn the  Purdue athletic director George King also declined to comment thursday on Cady s  slate lost 94-82 to Southern Cal in the first round of the Pacifie-10 Lourna Mcnol thursday Nighland ended its season at 5-13  play and 12-16 Overall Wilh five straight  has followed one of his most successful seasons Al Purdue it one of his most disappointing. This year s boilermakers inc defending big ten champions arc 13-16 Overall and6-Toin inc bitten Cady has guided the boilermakers to eight straight National  career record at Purdue is i9i-s5 Overall i oo-54 in the big ten. Last year s boilermakers set a school re Cord with a 29-4 Overall record and Cap lured the Bigton Lille Wilh a 16-2 Mark. Kirk to enter prison Memphis Tenn. A former Memphis state basketball Couch Dana Kirk has been ordered to begin serving his Federal prison sentence March 27. Kirk was convicted of Tat evasion for cheating on his income taxes and obstruction of Justice after a 10-week rial thai ended in november. Kirk who was convicted on five counts of a nine count indictment will serve his one year and one Day sentence at a minimum Security prison at Maxwell