{"id":12407,"date":"2026-07-13T08:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T13:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=12407"},"modified":"2026-07-10T16:45:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T21:45:29","slug":"collegiate-fbla-competes-at-national-leadership-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2026\/07\/13\/collegiate-fbla-competes-at-national-leadership-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Collegiate FBLA competes at National Leadership Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img class=\"alignright size-fusion-400 wp-image-12408\" src=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/07\/NLC-2026-Las-Vegas-NV-group-400x296.jpeg\" alt=\"FBLA contestants pose \" width=\"400\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/07\/NLC-2026-Las-Vegas-NV-group-200x148.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/07\/NLC-2026-Las-Vegas-NV-group-310x230.jpeg 310w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/07\/NLC-2026-Las-Vegas-NV-group-400x296.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/07\/NLC-2026-Las-Vegas-NV-group-600x444.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/07\/NLC-2026-Las-Vegas-NV-group-768x569.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/07\/NLC-2026-Las-Vegas-NV-group-800x592.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/07\/NLC-2026-Las-Vegas-NV-group-1024x758.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/07\/NLC-2026-Las-Vegas-NV-group-1200x888.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/07\/NLC-2026-Las-Vegas-NV-group-1536x1137.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>July 13, 2026\u2013Two MoWest Collegiate FBLA students finished in the top 6 at the National Leadership Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, in June. They competed against students from around the world with cash prizes awarded to the top 3 places in each event and trophies in the top 10.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Aden Monzon, senior accounting major from Oklahoma City, earned 2nd place in the Sports Management &amp; Marketing event. Wyatt Fisher, junior management major with a concentration in entrepreneurship from Faucett, Missouri, received 6th place in the Business Law competition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also competing were Kylie Curtis, Ashton Roe, Valencia Chapman and James Phalen. Competitive events included Entrepreneurship, Business Law, Business Ethics, Marketing, Finance, Impromptu Speaking, Supply Chain and Sports Management &amp; Marketing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">FBLA is a student organization focusing on leadership, service, and networking. Pam Klaus is the advisor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Missouri Western State University is a student-centered learning community preparing individuals for lives of excellence through applied learning. MoWest is located in St. Joseph, Mo., and is committed to the educational, economic, cultural and social development of the region it serves. Visit <\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">missouriwestern.edu<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 13, 2026\u2013Two MoWest Collegiate FBLA students finished in the top 6 at the National Leadership Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, in June. They competed against students from around the world with cash prizes awarded to the top 3 places in each event and trophies in the top 10.\u00a0 Aden Monzon, senior accounting major from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":12409,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12407"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12410,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12407\/revisions\/12410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}