HANOVER, N.H.â€"Business school students from 13 schools around the world will descend on Hanover May 3-4 to battle it out at the 25th annual MBA World Cup soccer tournament hosted by the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. More than 300 players and fans are expected to attend the event, which will be held this weekend at the Sachem fields.
(Media-Newswire.com) - HANOVER, N.H.—Business school students from 13 schools around the world will descend on Hanover May 3-4 to battle it out at the 25th annual MBA World Cup soccer tournament hosted by the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. More than 300 players and fans are expected to attend the event, which will be held this weekend at the Sachem fields.
"Tuck's MBA World Cup is a fun and competitive tournament," says co-captain Mike Errecart T'08. "It's a great way to interact with people from different business schools and extend the famous Tuck hospitality."
Teams hail from IPADE in Mexico, Cranfield University in the U.K., and U.S. schools such as Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan School of Management, and Columbia Business School.
The Tuck MBA World Cup is the longest-running and one of the largest MBA athletic events in the U.S. It was established in 1984 by Peter Grieve, Tuck class of 1984, who often returns to the tournament as a sponsor.
Teams will play a grueling schedule of four to five games over the course of the weekend in the hopes of knocking out the defending champs from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management. The final game will take place on Sunday. The winning team will take home the coveted trophy, the Peter Grieve Invitational Cup, created for the 20th annual MBA World Cup in honor of its founder and primary supporter of the tourney.
Other festivities include a BBQ hosted by the Tuck Latin America Club for all the soccer players and fans, which will be held on Saturday in the McCormack Courtyard on the Tuck campus.
For information and tournament schedule, please visit the Tuck Soccer/MBA World Cup website.
Founded in 1900, Tuck is the first graduate school of management in the country and consistently ranks among the top business schools worldwide. Tuck remains distinctive among the world's great business schools by combining human scale with global reach, rigorous coursework with experiences requiring teamwork, and valued traditions with innovation. CONTACT: Kim Keating, 603-646-2733
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