Student Stories

Lambert High Students Win First Place at 2025 Wharton High School Data Science Competition

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A team of students from Lambert High School in Suwanee, Georgia, clinched first place at the second annual Wharton High School Data Science Competition, a global, virtual event that attracted more than 490 teams from 34 countries. Hosted by the Wharton Sports Analytics and Business Initiative (WSABI) in collaboration with the Wharton Global Youth Program, the 2025 competition challenged participants to analyze more than 5,300 NCAA Women’s Basketball games, applying data science techniques to rank teams and predict game outcomes.…Read More

Preparing the Next Generation of Analysts: Inside the Wharton Sports Analytics Research Lab

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This summer, the Wharton Sports Analytics and Business Initiative (WSABI) hosted its second Sports Analytics Research Lab, an intensive program designed to deepen students’ expertise in data science and statistics through hands-on research in sports analytics. We caught up with Wharton students Sofia Boubsis and Justin Hughes to hear how their summer went. …Read More

It’s a numbers game: Penn students detail their analytics internships in the NFL

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Wharton students Zach Drapkin (W’22) and Sarah Hu (W’23), Wharton Undergraduate Sports Business Club (USBC) Board Members,  share their “once-in-a-lifetime experiences” interning for their favorite NFL teams with the Daily Pennsylvanian. Nearly every young sports fan dreams of one day growing up to work for their favorite team. Similarly, nearly…Read More

Wharton Moneyball Academy Students Named 2021 Diamond Dollars Case Competition Winners

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The 2021 Diamond Dollars Case Competition winners were announced Friday, March 12 during the SABR Virtual Analytics Conference. The winning teams selected were from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, Cornell University, Syracuse University, and the Horace Mann School in New York City. The University of Chicago team —…Read More

Student Spotlight: The Penn Sports Analytics Group Join Penn Basketball Coach on CBS Sports Network “Beyond The Box Score”

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On Saturday, February 20, 2021, the University of Pennsylvania’s John R. Rockwell Head Coach of Men’s Basketball, Steve Donahue, was a special guest analyst on the CBS Sports Network’s broadcast of the BYU-Loyola Marymount NCAA Division 1 men’s basketball game. Undergraduate students from the Penn Sports Analytics Group (PSAG) joined…Read More