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Angie needs a $1,009 boost to reach Olympian goal 'Fsm. Am. Unas due Cf TTTv i fl CHICAGO By John Husar THERE WAS A catch in Angie Mizera's voice. "You couldn't ask for more from a friend, could you?" she said on her end of the telephone 2,000 miles from home. Angie's friend is Diane Guse, supervisor of girls and women's athletics in Park Ridge.

Diane is trying to raise a thousand dollars so Angie can play volleyball in Korea and Japan and, maybe, just maybe, earn a spot on the 1976 U. S. Olympic team. "It's like this," Diane was saying. "Ever since she was a girl she had this dream of playing on an international team.

And so she's trying. She's giving her life to the sport. This experience could be a big break for her. But every girl on the team has to come up with $1,000. Her family can't help, so her friends are." WHEN ANGIE graduated from Maine South High School last year, she had this burning urge to compete.

"When I'd watch 'Wide World of Sport' I'd get shivers at the end when they'd show those closing pictures spanning the globe. I knew that somehow I would have to find a way to play on an international team," she said. That summer she played on a Softball team that went to a tournament in Sacramento, Cal. "Two days before we left I made up my mind," she said. Her high school coach had made contact with Chuck Erbe coach of the U.

S. Volleyball Association's junior national team. He would let her attend practices but only as a ball shagger. The opportunity was enough. After the Softball tourney, she watched the team fly back to Chicago and then went to see Erbe in Los Angeles.

For two months she did nothing but retrieve balls, carry equipment, run errands as she says, "all the dirty stuff." When she had time on the sidelines, she would practice hand control by herself "setting, setting, and setting, and underhand passing thousands of times. It was terribly monotonous, but gradually I began to improve." WARSAW SHE ALSO enrolled in a Junior college, carrying just enough hours to qualify for the volleyball team. When Erbe saw her continuing to improve virtually on her own, he made a place for her on his team, and only then was she allowed to take part in the regular drills. She remains the only non-Californian on the roster. Three weeks ago, Erbe's team won the U.

S. V. A. championship in Reno, and now is planning a month-long trip thru Korea and Japan, the world's hotbed of volleyball. The thought of staying home would break Angie's heart, Diane said.

"There was no way she could earn this kind of money by herself," Diane said. "I was out to visit her a couple of months ago and I couldn't believe the schedule she was keeping." Every night and all day Saturdays and Sundays, Angie works out with, the national team. Weekdays she goes to school and, until three weeks ago, played on the school team. There also were weight-training gym sessions. TO SAVE MONEY, she stays with the team's business manager and his wife.

To repay, she spends her free time pushing tickets to fund-raising exhibitions. "There really isn't much of a social life," Angie said. "Oh, sure, sometimes we go out, but there really isn't that much time. All of us feel the same way. We're willing to give up whatever we have to give up for the next four-five-years to have a good Olympic team.

"The thing that makes it worthwhile is when someone will tell me that I'm doing what they really wish they could do. They're glad to see someone do exactly what she wants with her life instead of just take a 40-hour-a-week job and settle down to waste time in front of the TV. I love my life totally. It's all I could ask for except maybe to be on the starting team." Diane was saying that Angie, at 18, has the potential. "This Asian trip is just what she needs at this point in her development.

I'm convinced that Angie could become the best woman volleyball player we have." DIANE AND SOME other friends have formed a "Committee for the Olympic Advancement of Angelique Mizera," with plans to contact service clubs, private donors, and the public in the next few days. "We have only until June 15," Diane said. "They leave in the last week of June." A fund has been established at the First State Bank and Trust Co. of Park Ridge. "We've just gotta help Angie," Diane said.

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