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Sloan Alumna Helps Break World Skydiving Record for a Good Cause

  • Amy Marcott
  • slice.mit.edu

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Skydivers in formationSamantha Joseph MBA ’09 was among 181 of the world's top female skydivers who set a new world record in women’s formation skydiving on Sept. 26. The effort, which was sponsored by Jump for the Cause and held at the Perris Valley Skydiving Center in Perris, Calif., raised more than $900,000 for breast cancer research. Learn more about the jump, including how long Joseph had to practice both on land and in the air, in the News @ MIT Sloan weekly newsletter. Joseph became the youngest female accelerated freefall instructor in the country at age 20. To date, she has more than 2,300 skydive jumps under her belt.

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