After a 10 days of competing against other high schools in a global competition, a team of three students from Hillsboro-Deering High School have qualified for the DECA International Conference in April 2019 in the area of Sports & Entertainment Management.
The Sports and Entertainment Management team, made up of freshmen Emily Ferguson, Kelsey Powell, and Irena Rose, finished in first place in the competitive North Atlantic region of DECA, and sixth overall internationally. They will compete in the finals against teams from Ontario, Texas, Virginia, Illinois, Michigan, California, and Arizona, as well as another H-D team that qualified in the fall.
The finals, which will be held at the International CDC in Orlando, Fla., in April, are made up of the remaining 16 teams in a live round-robin competition.
“With qualifying rounds that are only 10 days – it is an incredibly intense and stressful level of competition.
We had multiple teams in qualifying position during this round in each of the other events, but they came up just short in the end. I am very proud of the discipline and hard work that all second round teams showed,” said H-D DECA advisor Marc Payeur.