LHWHS students competed in the 2023 Missouri DECA State Competition in Kansas City from March 12 to 14.

Almost 2,000 students from across the state participated; 24 from LHWHS qualified for the International DECA competition to be held in Orlando in April.

STATE CHAMPIONS

• Rory Bland and Sam Deutsch - Sports and Entertainment Marketing Team
• Phoebe Chen - Principles of Hospitality and Tourism
• Lucia Li - Human Resources Management
• Molly Milton - Quick Serve Restaurant Management

2ND PLACE

• Paige Busker - Professional Selling
• Adam Devine and Charlie Wolf - Entrepreneurship Team
• Lucy Fletcher - Business Services Marketing
• Olivia Goeke and Sophia May - Integrated Marketing Campaign
• Mia Wallis - Retail Merchandising 

3RD PLACE

• Rachael Lin - Entrepreneurship
• Liam Oiknine - Food Marketing

4TH PLACE

• Ritwik Ashok - Financial Consulting
• Adam Friedman - Business Services Marketing

5TH PLACE

• Madison Kelley  - Hospitality and Tourism Professional Selling
• Owen Prange - Restaurant and Food Service Management
• Sophia Tarpey - Human Resource Management

6TH PLACE

• Gia Grillo - Retail Merchandising  

FINALISTS

• Julian Audi - Marketing Communications
• Dylan Brosseau and Beau Dolan - Community Giving Project
• Amit Kadan - Financial Consulting 
• Joseph Lourie - Accounting Applications
• Kate Margulis - Restaurant and Food Service Management

TOP TEST SCORE IN THEIR EVENT

• Ritwik Ashok - Financial Consulting
• Paige Busker - Professional Selling
• Phoebe Chen - Principles of Hospitality and Tourism
• Sam Deutsch - Sports and Entertainment Marketing Team
• Adam Devine - Entrepreneurship Team
• Racheal Lin - Entrepreneurship
• Sophia May - Integrated Marketing Campaign

INTERNATIONAL QUALIFIERS

• Rishil Gadde - Stock Marketing Game (Top 5 in the Midwest Region)
• Kevin Liu - School Based Enterprise (Gold Certification)

LADUE CHAPTER RECOGNITIONS

• Membership Campaign Award Recipient
• School Based Enterprise Gold Certification