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Whitman MBA students take first in annual games benefiting Special Olympics

Monday, April 16, 2012, By News Staff

A team of MBA students from the Martin J. Whitman School of Management has placed first in the annual Duke MBA Games benefiting the Special Olympics.

The games, hosted and presented by Duke’s Fuqua School of Business, concludes a year-long Special Olympics fundraising effort and brings together 12 business schools from across the country, including Duke, Purdue University, UNC Chapel Hill, Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Virginia, to compete alongside Special Olympics athletes in a range of activities including tug of war, 50-yard relay, business-suit relay and trivia, among others.

The team from Whitman raised more than $8,000 for Special Olympics North Carolina. 

The Whitman MBA student participants included:

  • Mohit Diwan (team leader) ’12;
  • John D’Agostino ’12;
  • Mike Reszka ’12;
  • Reema Amin ’12;
  • Dafra Sanou ’12;
  • Sumeet Batra ’12; 
  • Courtney Ostrout ’12;
  • Weston Ijames ’13;
  • Eliza Spencer ’13;
  • Tina Wilson ’13;
  • Asel Otunchieva ’13;
  • Rebecca Schied ’13;
  • Stephen Neff  ’13;
  • Shayna Blumenthal ’13;
  • Ishita Bhattacharjee ’13; 
  • Michelle Le ’13; and 
  • Joshua Schultz ’13.