Tri-C Places Second Nationally at 2024 NCLC
迦勒Kautz named top individual winner
Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C®) triumphed once again at the 2024 National Collegiate Landscape Competition (NCLC).
Tri-C的 Plant Science and Landscape Technology program took second place overall, and student 迦勒Kautz scored top individual honors among the 595 competing students. Organized by the National Association of Landscape Professionals, the annual competition challenges students in 30 individual or group events that require the expertise needed to work in the industry.
Kautz, 的Chesterland, is the third consecutive Tri-C student and fifth since 2014 to take top honors. He is in his final semester pursuing an Associate of Applied Science in the Plant Science and Landscape Technology program.
Tri-C also won three event championships during the competition, held March 13 – 16 at Brigham Young University of Provo, 犹他州: 克里斯汀Kermond won for small engine repair, and Kautz won for landscape lighting and maintenance cost estimating. The College placed in the top three in 12 events.
命运的格里菲思, 克利夫兰的, was another outstanding performer for Tri-C, placing fifth overall and first among females. She had a second- and third-place finish and two top-10 finishes.
Top-three performers for Tri-C were:
- 凯蒂Capatosto, annual and perennial identification, second place
- 加贝费尔南德斯, interior landscape design, second place
- 亚当Farraj, sales presentation, second place
- 梅丽莎·多尔蒂, turf and weed identification, second place
- Griffiths, mini track loader operation, second place
- Kiira Olszko, construction cost estimating, third place
- 奥利维亚米特尼克, turf and weed identification, third place
- 凯特林托雷斯 and Olszko, irrigation troubleshooting, third place
- Griffiths, interior plant identification, third place
"Our students continue performing at a high level at this event and they exceed our goals each year, especially competing against four-year universities,吉姆·船井说, assistant professor in Tri-C的 program since 2009. "We strive to build professionals ready to launch into successful careers, and we just had another very successful year of doing so."
去年, the College took first place overall at NCLC, becoming just the third community college to win the competition. Tri-C had the top overall student in 2014 (Hayden Angelotta), 2019 (Frank Vareska), 2022 (Peyton Musgrave), 2023 (Keith Rush) and 2024 (Kautz).
Funai has guided the College's Plant Science and Landscape Technology program to become the best two-year program in the nation, routinely placing alongside or above programs from large four-year universities in national competitions such as NCLC.
了解更多 about NCLC and view final results at landscapeprofessionals.org.
2024年3月21日
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