Meet Brad Flaishans
Captain, Manager, Mentor 
Brad Flaishans ’08
Most UNH sports fans know men’s hockey co-captain Brad Flaishans as the poised point man from Glendale, Arizona—a senior defenseman with a stinging slap shot and deft passing skills. Fewer know him as a Presidential Scholar—the top academic designation at UNH—who is every bit as much a leader in the classroom as on the ice.
Well, meet Brad Flaishans. “I came to UNH because of the reputation of its hockey programs and the Whittemore School of Business and Economics,” says Flaishans. When he’s not helping to captain Wildcat hockey to victory, Flaishans works with fellow members of the Atkins Investment Group, a group of Whittemore School students that manage the Wildcat Fund, an investment portfolio that attempts to mirror the S&P 500.
As portfolio manager, he guides the fund objective and crunches the numbers behind the group’s “buy” and “sell” decisions. “So far this year, we’ve outperformed the S&P,” admits Flaishans. Last summer, he parlayed his experiences into a plum of a summer job in New York City in the heart of the financial district. Working with an investment banking firm in the pressure cooker of Wall Street, he more than held his own with the “Ivy Leaguers” with whom he worked.
In 2005, Flaishans won the UNH Alumni Association’s Meritorious Service Award in recognition of his campus leadership that included serving as the only sophomore peer advisor in the history of the Whittemore School.
"The role required Brad to meet with first year students every week, teach them about time management, introduce them to academic resources on campus, lead discussions on current business issues, and other topics that help first-year students succeed at UNH,” says undergraduate program director and Professor Roger Grinde.
"That award meant a lot to me,” says Flaishans, “not least because I’m getting the opportunity to come to a great university and play a sport I love at the highest level. I feel that it’s necessary and really kind of a duty to serve others.”
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Cat Tracker is produced by University Communications and Marketing and the UNH Wildcat Athletics Council. Editorial: Dave Moore, Kerianne Coffey, Donna Eason Graphic Design: Christine Hodgson Photography: UNH Sports Information
Issue No.4, Winter 2008