DECA students score big at international competition

DECA participants at the 2014 international conference in Washington, D.C.
Photo courtesy SCC

Following their success at the Pacific Northwest Career Development Conference in February, Shoreline Community College DECA went to Washington D.C. to test their knowledge and skills at the 2014 International Career Development Conference (ICDC) from April 23-26.

Collegiate DECA ICDC brings roughly 2,000 college students together from around the world to compete in business simulations. With almost every aspect of business represented in the form of a business simulation, case study or prepared presentation, students have the opportunity to test themselves against the best business students from other colleges and universities.

Shoreline DECA qualified 15 members for the international competition. Students presented to business professionals from the D.C. area, creating a link between their studies and real life business scenarios. This is the 48th consecutive year Shoreline DECA has competed at ICDC.

DECA winners photo

Blake McBride, Katie LeBrun, Liem Nguyen, Omar Marouf and Frenchie Loveheart earned honors at the 2014 DEAC conference in Washington, D.C.

The following competitors placed in the top three:

    Omar Marouf, Sports / Entertainment Marketing, 2nd Place

    Liem Nguyen, Sports / Entertainment Marketing, 2nd Place

The following competitors placed in the top ten:

    Katie LeBrun, Business-to-Business Marketing

    Blake McBride, Business-to-Business Marketing

    Frenchie Loveheart, Entrepreneurship

The rest of the Shoreline DECA team included:

    Nissi Abundiz, Professional Sales

    Sarah Baker, Business Ethics

    Andrea Csutak, Business Ethics

    William Holmes, Hospitality Marketing

    Kay Sage, Human Resource Management

    Ashley Kelly, Business Ethics

    Zach Olson, Marketing Management

    Alex Purdy, Retail Management

    Silvia Rojas, Business Ethics

    Xanne Sarka, Hospitality Marketing

Shoreline DECA’s advisor Mona Starr received DECA’s 2014 Outstanding Service Award. The award is presented to professionals who have made distinguished contributions to further the mission of DECA at the international level for more than five years. The other Shoreline DECA advisors attending the conference were David Starr and Stephen McCloskey.