Blake Allen, Damon Maughan, and Jeffrey Schneider
returned home from the second annual American Express Planning
Invitational, a competition for financial planning students,
as National Champions. The three financial planning and accounting
double majors were notified in March 2001 that they qualified
to compete at the national competition held in Minneapolis from
April 26-29, 2001. Fort Hays State University won the national
championship by placing first in the written case competition
and oral presentation and second in the quiz show competition.
Fort Hays competed against five other universities including
Kansas State University, Cal-State Fullerton, Minnesota State
University at Mankato, Western Carolina State University, and
the University of North Texas. For its first place finish, Fort
Hays was awarded the grand prize of $10,000 in scholarship money
to be used for its financial planning program. The students
each won $800.
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