Being a D.O.-Ph.D. student at Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine can be challenging. For two students in the program in which students typically spend eight years in education and training to become physician-scientists, they balance classes, laboratory rotations, clinical clerkships and studying with table tennis.

For Alice Chu and Melissa Meschkewitz, playing table tennis at MSU brought an opportunity to play in the National Collegiate Table Tennis Association (NCTTA) 2022 Championship in April in Round Rock, Texas.

Chu and Meschkewitz are in their fifth and fourth year, respectively, in the College of Osteopathic Medicine D.O.-Ph.D. program, and also are members of the MSU Table Tennis Club. A group of seven students qualified for the national tournament, following both divisional and regional competitions. Once they made nationals, they got to work to secure funding from the Associated Students of MSU (ASMSU) and a GoFundMe® account so they could travel from East Lansing to Texas for the competition.

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