• Sunday, May 7, 2023
  • 12 Kilometers (7.46 miles)
  • Spokane, Washington
  • 47th Running

Team Name Contest

Corporate Cup 2023
Bloomsday Corporate Cup is sponsored
by Northwest Orthopaedic Specialists:

Northwest Orthopaedic Specialists

TEAM NAME CONTEST

Remember this when entering Bloomsday's Corporate Cup:

It's Good to be Clever!

2022 Best Team Names

Place: Business    -   Team Name

First: Spiceology   -   Makin' Good Thyme

Second: Northwest Farm Credit Services   -   Running our Dairy Airs Off

Third: Physical Therapy Associates   -   Virtually Good Runners

The Judicial Panel in 2022: 

Sarah Ranson, Bloomsday Board member

Michael Kiter, Bloomsday Board member

Crystal Yurik, Alliant

Jenel Harju, Paynewest

Jarod Crooks, Spokane Eye Clinic


2022 Best Team Name Finalists

(in alphabetical order by company name) 

Business    -   Team Name

141st Air Refueling Wing - Pass N Gas      

Alliant - Revenue Your Engines

Anesthesia Associates - This Gas We Pass

Avista - Women in Power

Avista - Run Til It Hertz

B&B Physical Therapy - Labrum Terrors

Canopy Credit Union - Nice to CU again

Center for Pediatric Therapy - Between a Walk and a Hard Place

CRUX Subsurface, Inc - Rather be Running Up a Tab

Franz - Knead to Run

Gonzaga University - You Zig We Zag

Gonzaga University - Speedy Gone Zaga

Idaho Forest Group - Eat My Sawdust

Integrus Architecture - Integrus’s Flying Buttresses               

Northwest Farm Credit Services - Running our Dairy Airs Off

Physical Therapy Associates - Virtually Good Runners

Spiceology - Hold On, I’m Cumin

Spiceology - Makin’ Good Thyme

Spokane Symphany - Fiddlers on the Hoof

Spokane Tribe Casino - Worst Pace Scenario

STCU - Loanly At The Finish Line       

U District Physical Therapy - Shin Sprints

 

TOP TEAM NAMES (2004-2019)


2019:

  • First: H2E - "It Megahertz But We Conduit"
  • Second: Spokane Symphony - "Run Your Rachmaninoff"
  • Third: Eymann Allison Hunter Jones - "Ruthless B Gimpsburg"


2018:

  • First: Kaiser Aluminum: "Aluminumb to the Pain"
  • Second: Spokane Symphony: "Running Against the Winds"
  • Third: Drywall Specialties Inc.: "Smooth Finishers'"

2017:

  • First: BDO USA: "We'd Depreciate an Uber"
  • Second: Franz: "Gluten for Punishment"
  • Third: Potlatch Corporation: "Loggin' and Joggin'"

2016:

  • First: Dingus, Zarecor & Associates, PLLC: "Audit La Vista, Baby"
  • Second: Premera Blue Cross: "Blue by You"
  • Third: Winston & Cashatt, Lawyers: "Law and Odor"

2015:

  • First: Workland & Witherspoon, PLLC: "Our Briefs Are Tight"
  • Second: Inland Northwest Blood Center: "B Positive"
  • Third: Franz: "Thunder Buns"

2014:

  • First: GU English Department: "Pair O'Thighs Lost"
  • Second: Spokane Public Schools: "No Teacher Left Behind"
  • Third: James Hoppe DDS: "Don't Follow Us We're Flossed"

2013:

  • First: Hair, Etc.: "Cut to the Chase"
  • Second: Newport Sullivan Lake Ranger District: "A Forest to be Reckoned With"
  • Third: The Law Firm of Eymann Allison Hunter Jones: "The Sequestrians"

2012:

  • First: Spokane Valley Fire Dept.: "Feeling the Burn"
  • Second: Newport Hospital and Health Services: "ICU at the Finish Line"
  • Third: Inland Imaging Associates, P.S.: "X-Raycers" 

2011:

  • First: Gonzaga Univ. English Dept.: "The Traipse of Wrath"
  • Second: Miller Paint: "Our Colors Run"
  • Third: Spokane Symphony: "Here Comes Treble" 

2010:

  • First: B & B Physical Therapy : "Plantar Fascists"
  • Second: Spokane County : "Worst Pace Scenario"
  • Third: Vaagen Bros. Lumber, Inc. : "Lumbering Along"

2009: 

  • First: P.O.V. Ranger District: "Run Forest Run"
  • Second: Workland & Witherspoon, PLLC: "May It Please The Course"
  • Third: Inland Power & Light Co.: "Running With The Current"

2008:

  • First: ALSC Architects: "Running Our Buttresses Off"
  • Second: Craven's Coffee: "No Bean Left Behind"
  • Third: Inland Cardiology Associates: "Cath Us If You Can"

2007:

  • First: Columbia Paint: "Shakin' Our Cans"
  • Second: Michael R. Bell & Co.: "Decreasing Our Bottom Line"
  • Third: Gonzaga University English Department: "Supersonnets"

2006: 

  • First: STCU: "We'll CU and Race You 12K"
  • Second: James Hoppe, DDS: "You Know The Drill"
  • Third: Gonzaga Law School: "Lawllygaggers"

2005:

  • First: Bonner General Hospital: "Follow the Bleeder"
  • Second: Payne Financial Group: "No Payne, No Gain"
  • Third: B&B Physical Therapy: "The Hot Pack"

2004: 

  • First: Inland Vascular Institute: "We're So Vein"
  • Second: Southwest Airlines: "Cool Your Jets"
  • Third: Spokane Teacher's Credit Union: "CU at the Finish Line"