For the second year in a row, the sales team from the University of Central Missouri took first place in the King’s Hawaiian sales competition hosted by the University of Kansas School of Business March 24-25.
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The team included Katie Horton, senior in marketing and professional strategic selling,
Overland Park; Lucas Johnson, senior in professional strategic selling,
Shawnee; and Kara Krannawitter, senior in marketing and professional strategic selling,
Lawrence.
The sales competition is a developmental event that provides students the opportunity to demonstrate their selling skills through simulated sales role-plays. The objective of the sales competition is to provide collegiate sales teams an opportunity to prepare and compete in a competitive setting before the National Collegiate Sales Competition. All three competitors completed two role-play scenarios in which they sold Gartner to buyers in technology roles, such as chief information officers. Johnson advanced to the semi-finals and placed in the top 24 students.