Southeastern students compete virtually, have success in national selling competition
Wednesday, April 29, 2020
by: Tonya Lowentritt
STUDENT WINS VIRTUAL SPEED SELLING COMPETITION - Southeastern Louisiana University student Brielle Ricca of Walker won top honors out of over 360 competitors for being selected the Top Speed-Seller by more companies than any other student in the National Collegiate Sales Competition.
HAMMOND – The Southeastern Louisiana University Sales Team recently honed new
skills to compete virtually in the 22nd Annual National Collegiate Sales Competition.
Originally scheduled to be held in Atlanta last month, the competition included two
categories – Virtual Speed Selling and Role Playing.
“The NCSC staff, corporate judges, and student competitors quickly pivoted from
their semester-long preparation to compete in-person to an online format within a
two-week time frame,” said April Kemp, Southeastern marketing and sales instructor
and professional sales program coach.
Representing Southeastern in the Virtual Speed Selling Competition, which was
judged by 16 corporate sponsors, were marketing majors and professional sales program
students Brielle Ricca of Walker, Paxton Page of Prairieville, and Ashley Murphy of
Baton Rouge. Each student delivered a 90-second elevator pitch live via web conference
to the corporate judges.
Ricca won the top honors out of over 360 competitors by being selected the Top
Speed Seller by more companies than any other student in the competition.
More than 75 universities and more than 40 corporations participated in the NCSC,
which was hosted by Kennesaw State’s Center for Professional Selling.
Southeastern’s Sales Team had two role-play competitors participate in NCSC.
India Williams of Baton Rouge, who won the Fall 2019 Internal Competition, and Conner
Brian of Greenwell Springs, won the Spring 2020 Internal Competition, were chosen
to represent Southeastern this year.
In the wild card round, Williams won first place in her room and Brian won second
place in his room. Williams was able to move on to the quarterfinals. Overall, Southeastern
was the runner-up for Top Rookie School, as this was the first time to participate,
giving the team an automatic bid to next year’s competition.
“We are proud of our student competitors for transitioning quickly to an online
competition format,” said Kemp. “Our students worked hard, and the outcome showed
Southeastern was a fierce competitor.”
For more information about the Professional Sales Program, contact Kemp at sales@southeastern.edu or visit southeastern.edu/sales.
