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Human Resources Students Win Tenth State Championship

A team of three management students from the Craig School of Business defeated defending champion CSU, Stanislaus in the California State Human Resource Management Games Feb. 12 for a tenth state championship.

Students Lauren Velarde of Visalia, Rhiannon Gardenhire of Fresno and Mitchell Pfyl of Boulder Creek, defeated a team from sister valley campus CSU Stanislaus in the championship match 8,400 to 5,400 after dispatching a CSU team from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo in the semi-final. Each Fresno student won a $500 scholarship provided by the Professional in Human Resources Association. Held at the University of California, Santa Barbara, the five-game contest uses a “Jeopardy” style format to test students’ knowledge in areas of management practices, employee selection, labor and employee relations, compensation and benefits, training and development and safety and health.

Ericka Islas, a fall 2010 graduate of Fresno, and students Burke Hudson of Fresno, and Paul Zwama of Leens, Netherlands, also were successful in the round-robin competition and earned the second seed in the final four but eventually lost to Stanislaus.

This is the tenth state championship for the Craig School of Business and adds to an impressive record in the HR Games. Fresno’s business students have won five regional championships, the most of any school in the seven-state region.

Source: http://www.fresnostatenews.com/archive/journal/vol14no7/newsmakers/newsmakers.html