OSU team takes top spot at horticultural competition

Monday, February 13, 2012

Students on the OSU horticulture judging team earned first place overall at the annual meeting of the 13-state southern region of the American Society for Horticultural Science held Feb. 4-6 in Birmingham, Ala.

A first place in the greenhouse floral and foliage, third in vegetable crops and third in fruit and nuts raised the OSU team to the top for the overall winner of the competition for the 13-state region.

Sunny Evans, horticultural science major, placed second overall in the individual rankings. Kristen Willis placed first and Kenny White placed second in individual competition in the greenhouse floral and foliage contests. Willis is a horticultural business major and White is a public horticulture major in the Horticulture and Landscape Architecture Department.

Courtney DeKalb, was elected as the new treasurer for ASHS Association of Collegiate Branches.