Deakin U masters of sports administration students have won second place in the invitation-only (US) National Sports Forum’s Case Cup (it’s a standard business plan competition for sports business people). It is a smaller trophy to send straight to the pool room to stand next to Deakin’s world number one for sports science in the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2016 and 2017. The Deakinites are: international student Arbaaz Akbar, distance student (in Germany) Lisa Crampton, who consults to BMW Motorsport, Canadian national AFL player James Duggan and Tom Humphries who is participation manager for Netball Australia.