December 11th, 2017

On Saturday November 25th, at St. Mary’s High School, Waterloo Oxford’s 54 member DECA chapter competed at the regional competition against approximately 35 other schools, and 1500 students. Students wrote an exam prior to the competition, and on November 25 completed a case study and role play portion of the competition. The W-O chapter was incredibly successful as noted by the stats below.

6 Top 10 Exam Scores – Kara Fleiszig, Peter Behnke, Andrew Maxwell, Alex Gruhl, Zach Smith, & Josh Potts
5 Top 10 Individual Role Plays – Josh Seyeau, Peter Behnke, Andrew Maxwell, Zcach Smith & Josh Potts
6 Top 10 Team Role Plays – Narien Chentivelnathan & Ben DeJong, Ashley Ferguson & Andrew Hamilton, Emma Gaston & Ainsley Sills, Delaney Helmke & Mckenna Seebach, Marieke van Rooyen & Jessica James, Anna-Maria Roth & Ally Schuller
2 Third Place Overall Medals – Andrew Maxwell & Josh Potts
2 Second Place Overall Medals – Peter Behnke & Zach Smith

Including these award winners W-O will be sending 29 students to the provincial competition in Toronto in February to compete, and participate in leadership development activities.

Group Photo – Back row: Narein Chentil, Andrew Maxwell, Zach Smith, Andrew Hamilton, Josh Potts, Josh Seyeau, Peter Behnke Middle row: Ben DeJong, Mckenna Seebach, Delaney Helmke, Marieke Van Rooyen, Jessica James, Ashley Ferguson, Ally Schuller Front Row: Kara Fleiszig, Emma Gaston, Ainsley Sills

Team Event Winners (missing many who had to miss awards ceremony): Mckenna Seebach, Delaney Helmke, Narein Chentil, Emma Gaston, Ainsley Sills, Marieke Van Rooyen

Medalists (missing Zach Smith): Josh Potts, Peter Behnke, Andrew Maxwell

Congratulations to all our W-O competitors!