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Team Arena, which includes Hoosier and Olympic teammate Mark and Olympic teammate Mark Spitz, as well as Don Schollander, Shirley Babashoff, and diver Micki King among others does public relations work for competitive swimming...
After several years experimenting--often unsuccessfully--with the lucrative acting and endorsement opportunities awaiting him upon return from Munich in 1972, Mark Spitz, the celebrated swim star of the 20th Olympiad, decided to try his hand in business. While not yet approaching a par with his swimming achievements, the Californian is doing just fine as head of his own SUMARK Corporation...
...always planned to become a dentist after my swimming days ended following senior year, but then found myself involved in something I enjoyed more and kept putting off Dental School until I had firmly established myself in business," Spitz said recently from his Century City, Calif., office. "I am sure now that the decision to go back four years later and crack the books again stemmed from reading too much about how I was expected to become Mark Spitz, D.D.S...
Through SUMARK Corporation, Spitz conducts a growing firm with interests in construction, development and investment. The investment division, which Spitz owns completely, includes large real estate holdings in California, Hawaii, and Texas. He spends most of his time managing this particular sector of SUMARK where he capitalizes on self-taught business skills...
...have accumulated thus far would be difficult to duplicate in classroom situations. It is largely a process of trial and error. Fortunately I seem to possess talent in the field of business, so the errors I make are fewer and fewer all the time and, more importantly, less severe." Spitz said, "Certainly some coursework would have been helpful and I regret not taking advantage of business classes offered at Indiana...