DETROIT -- Showing that they are more than just your average athletes, a number of Detroit student-athletes took to the podium as the University held its 11th annual Ethics Bowl last Friday.

A record number of competitors took part in the event with the winning team featuring three men's golfers in senior Britt Pronk, junior Mark Hicks and freshman Kyle Benford along with student Gerta Ropa. The team, nicknamed Dynasty, defeated Dunder Mifflin in the championship, a team that was represented by four men's lacrosse players in freshmen Thomas Sible, Vince Indiano, Tim Robertson,  Nick Garippa and Alex Wilson along with student Patrick Murray.

The Ethics Bowl was created to examine and find answers for tough ethical issues. Competition begins when the moderator poses a variety of ethical questions to each competing team, and the team that comes up with the most morally defensible answer will win the match. Questions may address ethical problems on classroom topics (e.g., cheating or plagiarism), personal relationships (e.g., dating or friendship), professional ethics (e.g., engineering, law, medicine), or social and political ethics (e.g., free speech, gun control, etc.).

A panel of judges drawn from UDM faculty, staff and administration, along with several guest judges from off campus, rated answers in terms of intelligibility, focus, depth, and judgment.

The winning team will now travel to Chicago later in the week to compete in the Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl.