April 18, 2001

Five WKU Students Win At State Business Competition

Bowling Green, Ky. - Five members of Western Kentucky University's Phi Beta Lambda chapter won first-place awards recently at a state leadership conference.

Western students placed in the top four in 11 of the 13 events April 8-9 at the Kentucky Phi Beta Lambda Spring Leadership Conference in Louisville.

First-place winners were Kevin Hughes, a Paris senior, finance; Ryan Meredith, a Bowling Green senior, economics; Tommy O'Brien, an Elizabethtown senior, marketing; Jennifer Sparks, a Bowling Green sophomore, business communication; Leslie Bedo, a Bowling Green junior, impromptu speaking.

Those five students and Jeremy Klauburg, a Paducah sophomore, will represent Western at the group's National Leadership Conference in July at Orlando, Fla. Klauburg finished second in computer concepts.

Other results were Amanda Gaudette, a Radcliff junior, third in accounting; Sonya Robertson, a Columbia senior, third in management; Chad Parnell, a Columbia senior, fourth in business communication; Kristina Knight, a senior from Lebanon, Tenn., fourth in computer applications; Robin Fulkerson, an Elizabethtown senior, fourth in marketing; Adam Howard, a Florence senior, fourth in Mr. Future Business Executive. The business decision making team of Hughes, Meredith and O'Brien finished second.

Selina Skaggs, a Bardstown senior, received the Dr. Rita Davis Scholarship from Phi Beta Lambda's Professional Division.

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