ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú students earn top finishes at national sports analytics championship
ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú students earn top finishes at national sports analytics championship
Three ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú University students earned top placements at the 2025 National Collegiate Sports Analytics Championship, held Feb. 18-19 at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee. Gus Weyand placed fourth in the graduate division, while Parker Kuchulan advanced to the Elite 8. In the undergraduate division, Joey Endres ranked among the top 32 competitors.
ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú also secured a third-place team finish in the graduate team competition, competing against programs from universities such as Iowa, Syracuse, and UT Austin. The event challenged students to analyze real-world sports data and present their findings in five-minute presentations judged on statistical analysis, data visualization, and communication.
Weyand and Kuchulan, both graduate students in ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú’s sport analytics program, benefit from an interdisciplinary approach that combines coursework from the Department of Sport ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉúhip and Management (SLAM) and the Department of Information Systems and Analytics (ISA). Their training in both sport analytics and business analytics reflects ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú’s commitment to collaborative, cross-disciplinary education. Ryan Chen, Ph.D., assistant professor in SLAM, mentored the students as they applied their skills in this highly competitive national event.
(AI tools Grammarly and ChatGPT 4.0 assisted in writing this article.)
