UCO College of Business Sales Team Excels in International Collegiate Sales Competition
Jan. 27, 2025
The University of Central Oklahoma College of Business Professional Sales team placed 38th out of 80 schools at the International Collegiate Sales Competition (ICSC) held in Tallahassee, Florida.
The competition allows students to increase their sales acumen through speed-selling pitches, role-play events and sales management case competitions. Eighty universities bring their top sales students to compete in the ICSC, known as the Collegiate World Cup of Sales.
The team placed 29th in the role-play category. Complementing the team's success, Riley Gentry, a senior general studies major from Choctaw, Oklahoma, finished 16th out of 156 contestants in the speed-selling competition. Gentry is the second student in UCO history to make the speed-selling finals at the ICSC.
The 2024-25 UCO Professional Sales Team includes Gentry; Branden Mercer, a senior marketing major from Edmond, Oklahoma; Mary Prather, a senior marketing major from Duncan, Oklahoma; and, Sinead Quirke, a senior marketing major from Edmond, Oklahoma. The team's coaches are Emily Goad, Ph.D., assistant professor of marketing, and Manoshi Samaraweera, Ph.D., professor of marketing.
UCO offers a major and minor in sales, as well as an MBA with a concentration in sales, providing students with the necessary interpersonal communication, professional selling, sales management and leadership skills to be successful in a sales career.
The Bob Mills Professional Sales Center at UCO also provides professional sales students with a dedicated space to practice selling strategies, prepare for competitions and interview with local executives and companies.
For more information about the professional sales program, contact Goad at 405-974-2805 or egoad@uco.edu. To learn more about the College of Business, visit www.uco.edu/business.
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Cutline: The University of Central Oklahoma College of Business Professional Sales team placed among the top 40 universities at the International Collegiate Sales Competition (ICSC) in Tallahassee, Florida. Representing the program at the ICSC, pictured left to right, Manoshi Samaraweera, Ph.D., professor of marketing; Mary Prather, a senior marketing major from Duncan, Oklahoma; Emily Goad, Ph.D., assistant professor of marketing; Sinead Quirke, a senior marketing major from Edmond, Oklahoma; Riley Gentry, a senior general studies major from Choctaw, Oklahoma; and, Branden Mercer, a senior marketing major from Edmond, Oklahoma.
