Strong showing at national event

The University of Central Oklahoma College of Business Professional Sales team recently took fourth place at the National Collegiate Sales Competition (NCSC) in Kennesaw, Georgia. This is Central’s highest-ranking achievement at the NCSC in the team’s history.

“We are very fortunate to have extremely talented students competing on a national stage with exceptional mentoring from our professional selling faculty,” said Jeremy Oller, Ph.D., J.D., dean of the UCO College of Business.

“Combined with the support from the Bob Mills Professional Selling Center, I believe we have consistently established ourselves as one of the premier professional selling programs in the nation.”

The competition gives students an opportunity to put their skills to the test through role-play events, a sales management case, speed-selling

UCO College of Business students

pitches and community involvement.

Nearly 150 students, representing 72 colleges and universities across the country, participated in the competition.

The Central Professional Sales team includes Mattison Bullard, a senior professional selling and marketing major from Edmond, Oklahoma; Cooper Crick, a senior professional selling and marketing major from Venice, Florida; Skylar Daniels, a senior professional selling and marketing major from Edmond, Oklahoma; Connor Benn, a junior professional selling major from Meeker, Oklahoma; and, Emily Goad, Ph.D., team coach and assistant professor of marketing at Central.

In addition to the team’s success, Bullard and