Mark Rubin, Wall Street’s Best Athlete, raised $9,438 for pediatric cancer research.
On July 29, 2012, Wall Street came together at Columbia University’s Wien Stadium to raise money for the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and to crown Wall Street’s Best Athlete during The RBC Decathlon with a football target toss.
The RBC Decathlon, which recognizes and rewards fundraising alongside athletic prowess, gave qualifying participants the chance to prove their skills in such events as pull-up, bench-press and the 40-yard dash. Adding to the excitement, one lucky decathlete even got the chance to toss a football and win a $170,000 Aston Martin Vantage convertible, courtesy of Aston Martin Long Island.
In the Aston Martin Long Island Football Throw, each competitor was given 3 tosses and were scored based upon both distance and accuracy of their shots. For example, a 50-yard throw that landed 5 yards from The Decathlon’s target would have been recorded as a 45-yard throw. The decathlete with the longest toss, Michael Bissmeyer, won the the chance to throw the football through a target opening and win the Aston Martin. While Bissmeyer didn’t quite have the perfect spiral, he did head home with bragging rights for having the longest, most accurate toss of the day.
Of course the really big news from this event was how much money was raised for the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center! The RBC Decathalon raised a very impressive $1.278 million to support pediatric cancer research.
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