Penn Medical Students to Hoop-It-Up Against Faculty in Annual Basketball Game

(PHILADELPHIA) — Will youth be served? Do the brains have the brawn? These are just a couple of the questions the faculty and administrators will have to consider while preparing for their annual round-ball contest against a team of medical school students. Led by the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine’s basketball coordinator Mike Rabinowitz, the student team’s rotation will correspond to what year they are in med school. First year students will play the first quarter, second year students get the second quarter and so on.

“The faculty hasn’t won in at least the last four years,” Rabinowitz said. “I wouldn’t call it an annual drubbing, but the students have certainly been on a roll.”

That roll continued last year as the students powered past their mentors 46-34, despite a game high 16 points by the pride of the Penn Sports Medicine Center, David Webner, MD.

“We have a comprehensive plan to slow down the game so our heft and superior guile win the day,” a confident Ralph Muller, Chief Executive Officer of the University of Pennsylvania Health System, declared.

To keep things fair, there will be two referees. Associate Dean of Student Affairs and part-time recreation league referee, Jon Morris, MD, will be on hand, as well as Obstetrics and Gynecology Administrative Services Coordinator Allison Simpson, BS, an official part-time Division II/III college referee.

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