Record 19 Ladue DECA students qualify for the international competition

Almost 2,000 DECA students from across the state of Missouri went to Kansas City for the past three days to compete in the areas of marketing, management, finance, and entrepreneurship. Ladue DECA students had a phenomenal three days and represented our school well!  

The following DECA students had outstanding performance sin the state competition, with a record 19 students qualify for the international competition which will be held from April 20-25th in Atlanta, Georgia.

Food Marketing Series
STATE CHAMPION- Noor Rahman 

Automotive Services Marketing Series
STATE CHAMPION- Ben Avigad

Quick Serve Restaurant Management Series
2ND- Josh Horowitz 

Human Resources Management Series
2ND- Shaun Carr

Business Finance Series
3RD- Yan Rybak

Marketing Communications Series
3RD- Daniel Chayet

Sports and Entertainment Marketing Team Decision Making
4TH- Jake Gerardi and Aidan Morley

Fashion Merchandising Promotion Plan
4TH- Yordanose Atanaw, Celeste Liu, and Simone Liu

Sports and Entertainment Promotion Plan
4TH- Ally Harpole, Kathryne King, and Carly Rich

Business Law and Ethics Team Decision Making
FINALIST- Giuseppe Di Cera and Christopher Ye

Buying and Merchandising Team Decision Making
FINALIST- Jane Farmer and Emma Warticovschi 

Principles of Finance
FINALIST- Katie Shaw 
Principles of Marketing
FINALIST- Emerson Barnett

Entrepreneurship Series
FINALIST- Antonio Amore Rojas

Innovation Plan
FINALISTS-Callie Cox, Angela Liu, and Karina Mealey

Leadership Delegate
Kelly Phung

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Ladue wins big at the Missouri State DECA Competition 

State Champions:
Ben Avigad, Automotive Services Marketing
Michael Burke, Food Marketing
Jake Gerardi & Aidan Morley, Sports & Entertainment Marketing Team Decision Making
Burhan Mubeen & Nisha Naseer, Marketing Communications Team Decision Making

2nd Place:
Xinyu He, Business Finance
Emebte Atanaw & Nicole Goecker, Hospitality Services Team Decision Making

3rd Place:
Jessica Matson, Quick Serve Restaurant Management
Diane Mwonga & Leanna Feng, Entrepreneurship Innovation Plan

Finalists:
Josh Horowitz, Hospitality and Tourism Professional Selling
David Song, Financial Consulting
Thomas Xiong, Principals of Hospitality and Tourism
Anum Sameer, Business Finance
Noor Rahman, Business Services Marketing
Cloe Frank & Kenan Elzoobi, Travel and Tourism Team Decision Making

Leadership Delegate:
Kaycee Little
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Ladue Horton Watkins High School DECA State Qualifiers

Ladue DECA recently qualified a number of students for the Missouri State DECA competition at the Lake of the Ozarks in March. They also had one student, Kaycee Little, automatically qualify for the international DECA competition in Anaheim, California.

Principles of Finance
1st- Riley Gage
2nd- Yan Rybak

Principles of Hospitality and Tourism
1st- Thomas Xiong

Buying and Merchandising Team Decision Making
2nd- MacKenzie Hines-Wilson and Panth Shah

Financial Services Team Decision Making
1st- Eric Yang and Julian Peng

Marketing Management Team Decision Making
1st- Burhan Mubeen and Nisha Naseer

Sports and Entertainment Marketing Team Decision Making
1st- Jake Gerardi and Aidan Morley

Travel and Tourism Team Decision Making
1st- Kenan Elzoobi and Cloe Frank

Apparel and Accessories Marketing
4th- Monty Rickey

Automotive Services Marketing
1st- Ben Avigad

Business Finance
1st- Xinyu He

2nd- Katherine King

Business Services Marketing
3rd- Noor Rahman

Hotel and Lodging Management
3rd- Kaycee Little
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Food Marketing
1st- Michael Burke

​Human Resources Management
1st- Ande Siegel

Marketing Communications
1st- Mya Danforth

Quick Serve Restaurant Management
1st- Jessica Matson

Retail Management 
1st- Emma Warticovshchi
3rd- Kelly Phung

Sports and Entertainment Marketing
1st -Tyler Love
2nd- Shaun Carr

Innovation Plan
1st- Leanna Feng and Diane Mwonga

Independent Business Plan
1st- Mya Danforth and Gus Heimkampf

Financial Consulting
1st- David Song

Hospitality and Tourism Professional Selling
1st- Josh Horowitz

Professional Selling 
2nd- Jake Gerardi

Leadership Delegate
2nd- Kaycee Little

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Ten Ladue students qualify for the international DECA competition in Nashville

Ladue's DECA students competed in the Missouri State DECA competition from March 13-15 in the Lake of the Ozarks.  TEN of those students qualified for the international DECA competition in Nashville, TN in April!

In addition to our international qualifiers, senior Semhar Mekonnen was awarded the Lester B. Kesterson Scholarship in the amount of $1000 for her contributions to DECA throughout high school and sophomore Kaycee Little was names a finalist in Principles of Hospitality and Tourism.

State Champions:
Michael Burke- Food Marketing
Xinyu He- Business Finance

2nd Place:
David Owolabi- Human Resources Management

3rd Place:
Simi Falako- Retail Merchandising

Finalists:
Kenan Elzoobi- Travel and Tourism Marketing Team Decision Making
Leanna Feng- Independent Business Plan
Cloe Frank- Travel and Tourism Marketing Team Decision Making
Jason Ko- Principles of Finance
Diane Mwonga- Independent Business Plan

Leadership Delegate Representative:
David Song

DECA district competition this week, February 8-12

The following students will be competing in the DECA district competition at Chesterfield Mall on Wednesday, February 10.
Results of those who placed,and who qualified for the state competition, will be determined by Wednesday afternoon.

Sophomores
Arsema Esayas 
Laura Ewald 
Jon Gerardi 
Maxwell Hampton 
Maxwell Kitsis 
Jason Ko 
Kaycee Little 
Adrian Morley 
Solomon Owolabi 
Jaylen Sykes 
Margaret Terrell
Emma Warticovschi 

Seniors
Preston Barrow
Simileoluwa Falako 
Miriam Garcia 
Jackson Gould 
Aaron Gray 
Zain Khan 
Ethan King 
Semhar Mekonnen 
David Owolabi 
Julia Tackes 

Juniors
Emetbe Atanaw
Michael Burke 
Kenan Elzoobi 
Leanna Feng 
Cloe Frank 
Sophia Garland
Cindy Geng
Nicole Goeckner 
Shannon Harper
Xinyu He Junior
MacKenzie Hines-Wilson 
Matthew Kaplan 
Julia Kennedy
Tyler Love
Evan Mack 
Jessica Matson
Burn Mubeen 
Diane Mwonga
Cheesy Schuman 
Pants Shah 
Journey Smith 
Skye Smith
David Song 
Sophia Wu Junior
Annie Zheng Junior

DECA district competition results, February 10, 2016

Ladue DECA had an outstanding day at our district competition yesterday.  With well over 400 entries in the competition, our students performed above and beyond my expectations. We had 28 out of 42 participants qualify for state!  Thank you to all of you that contributed over the years to our students being such bright and successful young men and women. Congratulations to the following DECA state qualifiers.

1st place:  
Michael Burke- Food Marketing 
Simi Falako- Retail Merchandising
David Owolabi- Human Resources Management
Jackson Gould- Marketing Management
Semhar Mekonnen- Automotive Services Marketing
Jessica Matson- Quick Serve Restaurant Management
Preston Barrow- Innovation Plan
Leanna Feng and Diane Mwonga- Independent Business Plan
Jake Gerardi and Aidan Morley- Sports and Entertainment Marketing Team Decision Making
Mackenzie Hines-Wilson and Panth Shah- Buying and Merchandising Team Decision Making
Sophia Wu and Cindy Geng- Business Law and Ethics Team Decision Making

5th place: 
Max Kitsis- Restaurant and Food Service Management
Zain Khan- Marketing Management

2nd place:
Jason Ko- Principles of Finance 
Kaycee Little- Principles of Hospitality and Tourism
David Song- Leadership Delegate
Julia Kennedy- Apparel and Accessories Marketing
Burhan Bubeen- Retail Merchandising
Xinyu He- Business Finance
Evan Mack- Sports and Entertainment Marketing
Cloe Frank and Kenan Elzoobi- Travel and Tourism Marketing Team Decision Making
Emebte Atanaw and Nicole Goeckner- Hospitality Services Team Decision Making

4th place:
Ethan King- Restaurant and Food Service Management
Matt Kaplan- Sports and Entertainment Marketing