FCAHS Students Win Awards at Regional FBLA Competition

Several Fox Chapel Area High School students recently placed in the 2020 Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) Virtual Regional Leadership Conference and many qualified for the virtual state competition. Fox Chapel Area first-place regional winners were seniors Melina Bradley, Erin Doherty, David Kronman, and Vivian Shao; juniors Alexa Berman, Brooke Bowman, Noah Bradley, Russell Fenton, Alicia Gu, Thomas Healy, Alaina Kaslewicz, Sydney Kennedy, Alex Zatman, and Ryan Zatman; and sophomores Donay Allen, Aisling Beresford, Maya Bradley, Paul Kullman, Diya Reddy, and Shawn Rygelski. Second-place regional winners were seniors Sara Friday and Isabella Liberto; juniors Margo Levenson, Carter Rowe, and Finnbar Ruff; sophomores Thomas Selwood and Alexandra Solomon; and freshmen Isaac Jacobs and Jadyn Smouse. Third-place regional winners were seniors Alex Blaylock, Riley Collins, and Vinisha Sant; juniors Isabella Geraci, Kaitlyn Legge, and Siddharth Yende; sophomores Christopher Ernharth, Nathania Lingam, Sophie Shao, and Jack Wilk; and freshmen Troy Susnak and Bridget Yun. All of these students have qualified to participate in the 2021 FBLA Virtual State Leadership Conference that will be held in March and April.  Additionally, the following seniors qualified for participation in the state conference based on their project submissions: Katherine Caracciolo, Allison Carey, Rachel Chang, Emily Li, Kaylee Werner, and Zoey Zoschg.

Other state place-winners at the conference included seniors Arda Akinci, Kaya Akinci, Elena Bradley, Nathaniel Lazzara, and Matthew Zytnick; juniors Carlie Barnett, Louise Coleman, William Cooper, Grace Flanagan, Elia Gillespie, Bridget Kilmer, and Delaney Miller; and freshmen Annalese Bartolacci, Lexi Biernesser, Henry Dreier, Evelyn Healy, William Kratsa, Angela Ngo, and Gloria Wen.

The FBLA Virtual Regional Leadership Conference was held in December and January.  Approximately 300 students from schools from 14 districts participated in the regional competition.