{"id":92153,"date":"2024-04-11T11:50:07","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T15:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=92153"},"modified":"2024-04-12T08:46:10","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T12:46:10","slug":"brock-students-win-leadership-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2024\/04\/brock-students-win-leadership-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock students win leadership competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A team of Brock University students took home first place during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.collegiateleader.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Collegiate Leadership Competition\u2019s (CLC) National Invitational<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n<p>Brock students competed against other Ontario college and university teams at Wilfred Laurier University on Saturday, March 16.<\/p>\n<p>To prepare, the team spent months honing their ability to provide support and problem-solve while uncovering their unique leadership skills.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone has the ability to be a leader in their own way. Anyone can be a leader because leadership is a process, not a position,\u201d said Travis Greene (BA \u201819), Leadership Development Co-ordinator for Brock University\u2019s Student Life and Success and the team\u2019s coach.<\/p>\n<p>Greene and Assistant Coach Kanishka Wijesundara (BSc \u201823) worked with six students on Brock\u2019s team:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Isabella Berardi, first-year Co-op Accounting<\/li>\n<li>Aryan Debojyoti Purkayastha, third-year Sport Management<\/li>\n<li>Kylor Huang, fourth-year Business Administration<\/li>\n<li>Randa Joatar, third-year Medical Sciences<\/li>\n<li>Ryan On, fourth-year Tourism Studies<\/li>\n<li>Tochukwu Daniel Oguejiofo, second-year Medical Sciences<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Joatar said training for the CLC taught her valuable lessons in leadership.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s more than merely sharing a vision and delegating tasks. It&#8217;s about offering support, understanding the stresses of teammates and knowing when to act as the lead or support,\u201d she said. \u201cThis experience was a great way to gain transferrable skills and make friends along the way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Greene is hopeful the CLC win will inspire more people interested in getting involved across campus, whether that be with through Campus-Wide Co-Curriculum, volunteering or enrolling in one of the many training opportunities available to students and Brock employees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe successes of these six students can be seen as a massive inspiration to all students at Brock,\u201d says Greene. \u201cThis year\u2019s team have acquired a wide arrange of skills, involvement and passions that any other student on campus can achieve themselves if they want to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following the national CLC success, Brock\u2019s team went on to compete against schools across Canada and the United States in the CLC Global Championship online on Thursday, April 4 and Saturday, April 6. The team placed seventh and was one of only three teams to get a perfect score on the final activity of the competition.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about student leadership opportunities, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/student-life-success\/student-life\/leadership\/#1541706020009-f8e6918d-88f4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brock\u2019s Student Life Success website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of Brock University students took home first place during the Collegiate Leadership Competition\u2019s (CLC) National Invitational last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":92154,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,39,1,38],"tags":[7849,7848,194],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92153"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92169,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92153\/revisions\/92169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}