UOIT Athletics department wins $25,000 in national contest
January 3, 2011
The University of Ontario Institute of Technology's (UOIT) Athletics department is celebrating the start of 2011 with a $25,000 prize that it won in a nationwide online competition staged by sporting goods company adidas.
UOIT emerged as the winning university in the month-long adidas University Challenge, a showdown between 19 Canadian universities that are partners of the sporting goods company. Students, faculty, staff and friends voted online for their school in a bracket-style contest. Each week, the university receiving the most votes as a percentage of its student population moved on to the next round. When final votes were tallied on December 27, UOIT had edged out Saskatchewan's University of Regina in the final pairing.
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