U of A Team Takes First Place at Regional Competition

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From left, Mia Norton, Emma Ehlers and Kristin Birkoff hold their first-place award from competition in the Beta Alpha Psi Southwest Regional meet.

A team of three University of Arkansas students won first place at the Beta Alpha Psi Southwest Regional meeting in the Best Practices competition last weekend in Oklahoma City.

Beta Alpha Psi is an international honorary society for students of accounting, finance, and information systems.

The Walton College team of Emma Ehlers, Kristin Birkoff and Mia Norton won first place in the "Launching into the Next Century" category and will compete at the National Beta Alpha Psi meeting in Washington, D.C., in August. They competed against teams from 20 schools from across Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Kansas and New Mexico.

Hunter Johnson and Tyalor Atwell made an excellent non-competitive presentation on chapter operations, and Cassidy Cook, Lindsey Isroff and faculty adviser Charles Leflar also attended.

Beta Alpha Psi will celebrate its 100th anniversary in 2019. The U of A chapter is one of the oldest active chapters in the nation, having been installed in 1951. The U of A chapter has been named a Superior Chapter, the top competitive level, for more than 20 years in a row.

From left, adviser Charles Leflar and students Mia Norton, Taylor Atwell, Emma Ehlers, Kristin Birkhoff, Lindsay Isroff, Cassidy Cook and Hunter Johnson.