NEWSLETTER 110 S ..Ton Buildi!'Lfl • L ..Inqton, KY 40506 Volume Xxxn November 10, 1992 Number 2
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National Wheelchair Basketball Association NEWSLETTER 110 S ..ton Buildi!'lfl • L ..inQton, KY 40506 Volume xxxn November 10, 1992 Number 2 PARALYMPIC GOLD FOR MEN on 3-point tries for a total of 2 for 20 or 10% shooting. The 1992 U.S. men!s team s uccessfully defended the gold medal won in Korea in 1988 The U . S. averaged 44% shooting for all eight by defeating Holland 39- 36 in the of its games in the tournament to lead the 12- championship game of the IXth Paralympic team field, while Holland was a close second Games in Barcelona, Spain on September 13. with 42%. The teams averaged 62 and 58 points a game respectively to lead 1-2 in that The game was not won easily as evidenced by category. the low score and the narrow margin of victory. Both teams played it to the hilt but MEN'S TEAM DISQUALIFIED FOR POSITIVE neither was able to get untracked as each DOPE TEST squandered numerous opportunities to take charge. The U. S .• however, with its greater Almost as quickly as the men won the gold depth in the lineup, was able to build an medal, it was put in jeopardy two days later early lead and maintain it down the stretch as when it was confirmed that David Kiley had Holland, in foul trouble, could not mount a produced a positive urine test after the sustained comeback. championship game. Buoyed by a one-sided victory over France in The Doping Control Commission, following the semi-final, the U.S. entered the final with International Olympic Committee protocols and confidence. The starting lineup featured Mike regulations, informed the U.S. Disabled Sport Schlappi, Daren Schenebeck, Trooper Team leaders that Kiley's urine showed traces Johnson, David Kiley and Curtis Bell, all of a prescription medication for pain - veterans of previous international dextropropoxyphene - which was on the IOC championship competitions . Kiley was playing banned list. Notified in the air enroute to the in his fourth Paralympic gold medal game, U. S., Kiley admitted that he had taken the while Schlappi and Bell were in their second. pill, given to him earlier in the week by Head Schenebeck had a previous taste of gold medal Coach Harry Vines, to still the "shooting" competition in 1990 in the world championship pains in his legs which kept him from sleeping in Bruges, Belgium. Coming off the be nch, on Friday night following the semi-final game Tim Kazee turned in a strong game as he with France. Vines har1 been taking the scored 12 points on 6 of 8 from the field, the medication for a chronic back condition. only U.S. player to score in double figures . Kiley was one of two U. S. players randomly The final proved to be a tense affair in the selected to be tested. sense that the players of both teams were equally off their game. The U . S. with 22 The International Coordinating Committee turnovers made only 16 of 46 field goal (ICC), the world governing body for the 1992 attempts (34%). Holland with a slightly better Paralympic Games was informed of the doping turnover record (13) was woefully weak from violation some days later through the the field . hitting on only 17 Of 62 attempts Chairman, Guillermo Cabezas of Spain. (27%) and 0 for 5 from three-point range. Because the members of the ICC Executive Committee had departed Barcelona by this Reg Colton was the U. S. second high scorer time, Cabezas conducted a mail vote of the with 9 points. Bell. Kiley and Schenebeck presidents of the international sport chipped in with four each. federations - the ISMWSF, IBSA, 1500, lNAS FMH, CP-ISRA, and IPC - to determine the The Netherlands· high scorer was erstwhile fate of the U . S . team . veteran Fritz Wiegmann with 14, followed by The ICC officials were provided with a short Ben Klerks with 12. Gert Jan Van der report from the Doping Commission which, by Unden, not his usual flashy self, scored on ICC rules, was obligated to recommend a only 2 of 15 2-point attempts and was 0 for 5 penalty. The penalty recommended was to z overturn the results of the game, suspend Going into the championship game of the IX Kiley for six months and withdraw his medal. Paralympic Games in Barcelona, Spain, the This would have meant that the gold would go U.S. Women's team had swept aside the to Holland Bnd the silver to the U. S . opposition in four games by an average margin of 14 points. They were favored to The ICC, however, resorted to the penalty take the gold over a Canadian team that, published in the doping control regulations excluding a 58-9 victory over hapless Spain, for the Games: could claim only a 3-point average margin of victory in three games . "If the competitor is a member of a team, the match competition or event The gold medal game, however, proved to be during which the infringement took all Canada . Their 35-26 victory was place shall be forfeited by that team." convincin g in the way they took control of the game early and stayed in front throughout. The result was a 6-0 vote to disqualify the Led by the irrepressible Chantal Benoit who U. S. team frow the competition and to scored a game-high 18 points, Canada redistribute the medals to the three countries outscored the U.S. 18-12 in the first half and finishing behind the U.S. - Holland, Germany 17-14 in the second. Also figuring and France. prominently for the victors was Linda Kutrowski who directed the offense and In the period immediately following the official dished out four assists. Julie Millard had a news of the positive test. a strategy was game rugh 6 rebounds and contributed 11 mobilized to appeal the ICC decision by the points while playing only 15 minutes. United States Disabled Sports Team, the organization authorized by the USOC to The U. S. shooting per centage dipped to a oversee U.S. participation in Barcelona. Mike tournament low of 26!\ on 13 of 50 attempts. Mushett, Team Director (and a former Deb Sunderman led the scoring with 8 points Director of the NWBT in Westland, MI in followed by Sharon McCarthy with 6 and Jamie 1981), is putting the appeal together utilizing Whitlow and Renne Tyree with 4 each. information gained from the Doping Commission, the International Basketball The gold medal was Canada's first in Federation, the USOC, the ISMWSF, the NWBA Paralympic and World Championship Commissioner's Office, as well as from competition . Their previous high was a affidavits submitted by Kiley and Vines . The bronze medal in the Gold Cup World conviction is that the penalty to disqualify the Championship in St. Etienne, France in 1990 U. S. is excessive and that the team should finishing behind silver medalist Germany and retain the gold with only the player gold medalist USA. committing the infraction being denied a medal. The U. S. won the gold in the VIII Paralympic Games in Seoul, Korea in 1988. Phil Craven of Great Britain, President of the IWBF, has supported a reversal of the ICC Members of the 1992 team were: Annette decision with a strongly worded statement to Espinoza, Austin, TX, Texas Heat; Suzie Cabezas citing the minor nature of the Grimes, Eugene, OR, Bay Area Meteorites; infraction. NWBA Commissioner Stan Sharon Hedrick, Urbana, IL, Illinois Fighting Labanowich backed Craven's letter with a Illini; Ronda Jarvis , farmer City, IL, Illinois similar call for reversal based on the same Fighting Illini; Kim Martin, Taylor Mill, KY, conclusion . Wright State University Lady Raiders; Sharon McCarthy, Farmer City, IL, Illinois Fighting At this date, it looks like the final resolution Illini; Deb Sunderman, Savage, MN, Minnesota of the appeal will take some time. The Rolling Timberwolves; Margaret Stran, ISMWSF and the IWBF Executive Committees Champaign, IL, Illinois Fighting Illini; Alma will meet in December and March respectively, Torres, Los Angeles, CA, Southern California while the ICC is scheduled to meet in either Sunrise; Tiana Tozer, Champaign, IL, Illinois March or April. Fighting Illini; Renee Tyree, Tucson, AZ, University of Arizona Wildchairs; Jamie PARALYMPIC SILVER FOR WOMEN'S TEAM Whitlow, Champaign, IL, Illinois Fighting IIlini. 3 Coaches were: Ron Lykins, University of final game, 63-60. Wisconsin-Whitewater, and Frank Brasile, University of Nebraska at Omaha. On 13 occasions, Rumple was elected to First Team All-National Tournament, a testimony to LORAL "BUD" RUMPLE his remarkable performances in championship competition. Loral "Bud" Rumple, long-time player and player-coach of the Indianapolis Olympians Much of Rumple's success as a player and that and Detroit Sparks, died on October 5 at the of the team was predicated on the advanced age of 55. The cause of death was a heart style of wheelchairs used. A skilled, attack suffered while playing golf. precision welder, he designed and customized the chairs in an era when players had to use Rumple grew up in basketball crazed Indiana. stripped down, heavy duty. standard models He contracted poliomyelitis at the age of I, to make them sport worthy. His rigid but though ambulatory, learned the rudiments aluminum box frame became the prototype for of the game at an early age. When the the later lightweight sports model chairs that Crossroads Rehabilitation Center in emerged in the late '70s and early '80s. Indianapolis organized a wheelchair basketball team in the late '50s, Rumple was among the Rumple was paid the sport's highest tribute in charter members .