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Fifty-two St. Mary students competed at the Business Professionals of America Regional Leadership Conference at Central Michigan University. Twenty-nine students qualified for competition at the State Leadership Conference to be held in Grand Rapids on March 19-21.

State qualifiers:

 Seniors
     Emily Hanford
                    2nd place, Presentation Management-Team
     Samantha Herman
                    2nd place, Parliamentary Procedure Team
     Kaitlin Houdek
                    2nd place, Parliamentary Procedure Team
                    4th place, Interview Skills
                    4th place, Parliamentary Procedure Concepts-open
     Ryan Konieczka
                    1st place, Economic Research Project-Team
     Allison Korson
                    1st place, Financial Analyst Team
     Mary Lingaur
                    TORCH Award
     Lukas Mateja
                    2nd place, Graphic Design Promotion
     Marty Mugerian
                    1st place, Prepared Speech
                    5th place, Extemporaneous Speech
     Missy Nelson
                    2nd place, Human Resource Management
     Bradi Pasch
                    1st place, Economic Research Project-Team
                    1st place, Administrative Support Research Project-Individual
     Adam Peplinski
                    1st place, Financial Analyst Team
     Jacob Plamondon
                    1st place, Financial Analyst Team
                    2nd place C++ Programming
     Steffanie Priest
                    3rd place, Administrative Support Research Project-Individual
     Emily Schaub
                    2nd place, Parliamentary Procedure Team
                    4th place, Prepared Speech
     Forrest Tarsa
                    1st place, Economic Research Project-Team
                    2nd place, Economic Research Project-Individual

Juniors
     Emily Boss 
                   1st place, Presentation Management-Individual
     David Logan Couturier
                    2nd place, Parliamentary Procedure Team
     Brooke Fortner
                    2nd place, Presentation Management-Team
     Saralyn MacKinnon
                    1st place, Basic Office Systems & Procedures
                    1st place, Integrated Office Application
                    2nd place, Business Spelling
     Christy Miller
                    2nd place, Parliamentary Procedure Team
                    3rd place, Economic Research Project-Individual
     Tiffany Moore
                    2nd place, Parliamentary Procedure Team
     Michael Pendergast
                    2nd place, Administrative Support Research Project-Individual
     Rachel Plamondon
                    4th place, Fundamentals of XHTML
     Michael Popp-Trevino
                    5th place, Fundamentals of XHTML
     Kayla Schaub
                    1st place, Economic Research Project-Team

Sophomores
     Alissa Boone
                    2nd place, Presentation Management-Team
     Morgan Furore
                    2nd place, Presentation Management-Team
     Aiden Keilty
                    3rd place, Computer Security Concepts-Open
     Layton Korson
                    1st place, Financial Analyst Team

Freshman
     Brittany Mikowski
                    4th place, Human Resource Management