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Show The Salt Lake Tribune SPORTS Saturday, January 15, 2000 Stockton Seemingly OK After Eye-Poke vs. Miami Cook Claims Pair of Titles At Nationals BYSTEVE LUHM THE SALT LAKETRIBUNE BY BRIAN MAFFLY No news was good newsfor Jazz trainer Mike Shimensky. Coach Jerry Sloan canceled practice Friday, so Shimensky THE SALT LAKETRIBUNE SOLDIER HOLLOW Steve Cook was fresh out of high school, unloading a grain truck at a Mon: tana farm, when his right foot slipped through a grate over a told John Stockton to give him a call if the eye he injured in the third quarter Thursday night against Miami was bothering him. churning augur. The machinery crushed his limb. But it was apparent to anyone watching the Chevy Truck U.S. Cross Country Championships this week that the injury hardly scratched his spirit. The 31-year- Stockton didn’t call. “It lookslike he'll be fine,” Shimenskysaid. “Luckily, the abrasion was on the white part of his eye,”not the cornea. Stockton was injured when he old Salt Lake City skier claimed dwo of the three national titles drovethe lane and was smacked in the face by Miami's Anthony Carter. Referee Dee Kantner was awarded to stand-up disabled men at the meet, which concludes to- closest to the play and did not call a foul. The Jazz, seemingly ener- day with a 50-kilometer skate. He and his three stand-up teammates on the U.S. Disabled Ski Team also gized by the contact and no-call, the able-bodied athletes they skied alongside. Cook, who has competed in treatmentin the locker room. ForStockton, it was the fourth serious shot he has taken in the both summer and winter Paralympics, said his aim is “to show last 44 games, going back tolast spring's playoffs. scored the game’s next eight points while Stockton was getting posted faster times than many of peoplethat disabilities don’t have to slow you down. That's the main thing.” Cook took up skiing to cross train for cycling a few years ago but has since put wheeled sports on the back burner in hopes of winning Paralympic gold on skis in 2002. “It's amazing to watch Steve Cook ski,” his coach, Jon Kreamelmeyer, said. “He's extremely dedicated. Steve has an excellent chance.” At the 1998 Winter Paralympics, Cook took a fifth in the 10K freestyle, which is his strongest event. He and his teammates leave next week for the disabled world championships in Crans- Montana,Switzerland. “It's been an excellent experience,” Cook said of racing. “It's allowed me a more rounded life, as far as athletics, seeing the world and meeting people.” Cook is among the many non- skier athletes recruited to the team. Kreamelmeyer convinced double amputee Scott McNeice to take upsit skiing soon after the 45-year-old Minnesotan won the 1998 hand cycling world championships. Sit skier Candace Cable of Truckee, Calif, was a world- record wheelchair racer, having won six Boston Marathontitles before going to ski racing, both Nordic and alpine. “Wedon’t havea feeder system. If we canget athletes with a good cardiovascular. system, we can teach them to ski,” said Kreamelmeyer,a recently retired English teacher who lives in 0, Colo., near his assistant ches, Scott “Petey” Peterson aad Jon“Zeke” Zdechlik. Steve Cook does some rugged uphill climbing during this week's U.S. Cross Country Championships, where he won the 10K and 15Ktitles. Cooktrains between 10 and 18 hours a week, or around 600 hours right leg while racing. a year. World Cupskiers train at kayaker, Crenshaw wona bronze at the Nagano Paralympics, as did least 850 hours, but Cook main- tains near full-time employment atanoutdoorshopin the Avenues, fixing skis and bikes. Other than Wild Rose Mountain Sports and his wife, Lauren Scholnick, he has no sponsors. “I make very little money a year,” Cooksaid.“If it wasn’t for Lauren, I couldn’t be doing this. WhenI wasracing bikes, I racked up thousands and thousands of dollars on my Visa cards.” Last year at the cross country national meet in Rumford, Maine, Cook established himself as the disabled team’s strongest skater, winning the 15Ktitle. He replicated that performance Wednesday, skating the 10K in 28 minutes, 6 seconds — about 5% minutes sonar than the winner, World Cup racer Marcus Nash. But in Thursday’s 15K classic, the technique that is supposedly Cook’s weakest, he shocked his teammates, kicking past about 40 able-bodied skiers en route to anotherdisabled title.It was thefirst time he outskied veteran Mike Crenshaw in classic race, finishingin 44:00.7. “Cookie uncorked one,” said Crenshaw, a __hydro-geologist known for his skills as a home brewer and uninhibited sense of humor.“I’m 45.It’s about time he kicked myass. That's a hell of a Also a world-class whitewater teammate Bob Balk of New York in the sit ski class. Cross country racing is unique in including the stand-up disabled athletes in the main events at nationals. At Soldier Hollow this week, they raced on the same Olympic-caliber courses, with their twisting downhills and tortuous uphills, seeded in with the four-limbed skiers. “Mostskiers appreciate it and it’s good for the sport,” disabled team memberWilly Stewart said. “But when you get a bunch of gimpy guys like us out here on courses that are as hard asthis,it takes excusesoutof guys. They hit the remote control. You candoit. It takes a lot of commitment and hard work.” In competition, Stewart looks like just another racer, but one whoforgotto bring both poles. He skies withoutthe benefit of a right — a_ casualty of a construction-site accident at the Watergate building in Washingheading to the University Maryland on a scholarship. tling to cross country skiing. . They are alike. They are tough: guy individual sports.” He worked as a bicycle messenger Walsh,33, on the other hand, has beena ski racer since early adult- rightfoot on the job. Both menget hood. He has a long string of top prosthesesthatflex like a real foot. Crenshaw’s unclothed prosthesis “Disabled skiing tends to be an old guy’s sport,” Stewart said. “It requires so manyyears.A lot of us got hurt when we were 18. By the Like Cook, Crenshaw lost his Rob five international results to his credit, including a gold medal in looks more like bionicfoot thana crutch when he powers off his the 1988 world championships. fe aroundon high-tech, carbon-fiber dt Grizzlies at Kansas City At KemperArena, Kansas City, Mo. -aceofi: 6:30 p.m. (MST) Records: Utah 24-10-4; Kansas City 17-16-5 tonight Aboutthe Grizz: Goalie Rich Parent was called up by the Tampa Bay Lightning on Friday and will ntplay tonight or in Monday's All-Star game. Andrei Treflov of Chicago finished secondin fan voting and is scheduled to make the All-Star stat. Kory Cooper was called up from Idaho of the West Coast Hockey League to replace Parent. Cooper ‘was named the Western Professional Hockey Leaguegoalie ofthe yearlast season, ace: UN 1m Season Series: Spit 2 Utah's Next Five: Monday,A-Star Game in Houston; Friday vs. Kansas City; Jan. 22at Detroit; Jan.23 at Cincinnati;Jan, 25 at Cincinnati years ago and taking up Nordic skiing. time we are in our 30s, we're startingto figureit out.” elbow injury that required offseason surgery. dangerous eye Utah at UNLV eeee ee lespees pecuieeaeght bene ae aendes Geren Ue Coach ee ' : BR eee acne a BertOe Constance Jinks Rebels: Gee ‘About theoate se not stop BYU canbut the Rebels couldne 419, terJil Adams (28) MeN sn btner:SU ans (it a Ft MSU. Like the Jazz, Bryon Russell has played his best basketball lately. Russell, who scored a team- high 19 points in Utah’s 93-83 victory over Miami, is averaging 18 points and 5.5 rebounds over his last six games. His shooting has bordered onthe spectacular. Since the Jazz's 109-89 win over Denveron Jan. 3, Russell has con- nected on 56.3 percentof his shots (40-for-71). He has made 10 of 18 three-point shots and 18 consecu- NEW BIG DAWG? Newly signed center/forward Armen Gi made his first contribution during the Jazz’s win over Miami. 9.8 pons anda earieadog48 | rebounds against the Heat. He scored nine points in the fourth quarter, when henailed a couple of medium-range jumpers that made Coach Jerry Sloan think of vintage Antoine Carr. “Wehaven't hadthat ability for awhile,” Sloan said. Gilliam played 23 minutes against the Heat, including the entire fourth quarter. Asked if he had planned to use Gilliam that much against Alonzo Mourning & Co., Sloan said, “We didn’t go in with any preconceived ideas. . . but we didn’t bring him in here to redshirt, either.” WSU BASKETBALL SN Utah State vs. UC Irvine Weber State at Montana WARthe Spectrum,Logan At Dahlberg Arena,Missoula, Mont. 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Jazz cameagainst the Los Angeles I the Thomas & Mack Center, Las Vegas BTpf 20m(ST) night | Red Auerbach of Boston (795) and Red Holzmanof New York(613) as one of three coaches to win 600 Gilliam, who had gone scoreless in nine minutes in Monday night’s 93-86 loss at San Antonio, Clippers on Dec. 10, 1988. 8 Season Series: Jazz lead, 1-0 time coaching wins, and three weeks ago after the Jazz’s 101-90 victory over Vancouverhe joined Riley said Russell “isn’t.a secret. . He’s a top-flight player.” Q Q 700 FOR SLOAN? Sloan’sfirst win as coach of the @ Records: Jazz 23-11, Cippers 10-25 of the Jazz, his record is a remarkable 605-282. Sloan is 12th on thelist of all- tive free throws. No wonder Miami Coach Pat of suffering a injury. fons the Chicago Bulls. 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