Successful event  for team from UNBC – photo submitted

Prince George, B.C. – The JDC West  team from  UNBC  is coming  home  from the annual competition and they are  packing some nice hardware.

The team of 50 business students  took part in the  “Jeux du Commerce West ” competition which, this year,  was held in  Saskatoon.  The competition puts  teams  of business  students from  eleven universities  up against each other in several competitions.

The UNBC team came first in Marketing,  Second place in Finance,  First  place in Participation  and  Overall Charity fund raising total .

The team raised $127 thousand dollars.

But even with  those  ‘wins’, team co-captain Carlie Whitwham says it will be a while before  the team is told its overall ranking, and that ranking is very important.  “The lowest three teams are  eliminated from being  able to take part  in the competition  for the next year” says Whitwham,  who adds  the team was in jeopardy  of losing its  participation  eligibility  in the past.  Although she doesn’t want to ‘jinx’ the outcome,  Whitwham says   she  is “pretty confident”  the team will  come out with a positive  ranking.

While the  competition is intense,  Whitwham says it  provides  an opportunity  to  network with 800  top business  students. “The other key thing here, is myself and my  co-captain Brody Wicki, we spend the entire year after the competition   sharing resources  with the other captains at the other universities as  well as the organizing committee and board of directors for JDC West, so we really work together to ensure all of our teams see success.”

But for now,  Carlie Whitwham  wants  to  send out a thank you to their sponsors, especially the Pattison Group for its support for the  Marketing  team, and the Investors Group which  supported the Finance team.

UNBC has been  part of the  JDC West competition  for the past  ten years, and its highest overall ranking for a team from UNBC  was  4th.