SHU Student-Athletes Shine in Business Competition
3/17/2023 12:57:00 PM | Men's Soccer
Will Pearce and Etienne Murugarren were part of a group of four student-athletes to win 2023 CFA Institute Research Challenge sub-regional competition.
Junior Will Pearce and sophomore Etienne Murugarren are members of the Sacred Heart men's soccer team. During the offseason, the duo spent their time working on a project 2023 CFA Institute Research Challenge.
The CFA Institute Research Challenge is an annual global competition that connects university students with investment professionals from within the CFA Society® network. The competition provides students with hands-on mentoring and intensive training in financial analysis and ethics and tests participants' analytical, valuation, reporting writing, and presentation skills.
Members of the society, along with a faculty advisor and an industry mentor, work with teams of students to value a stock, write a research report, and present their recommendations. Teams then compete with peers from other schools at local-level competitions organized and judged by CFA Society members and volunteers. The winning university team(s) from each local competition then advances to see who will become the sub-regional, regional, and global champions.
Edwards and Pritts were on a team of five Sacred Heart students that won the Hartford Sub-Region CFA Challenge. The group was competing against schools such as Bryant University, Central CT State University, Eastern CT State University, Providence College, Sacred Heart University, Trinity College, UCONN - Stamford, UCONN - Storrs, University of Hartford, University of New Haven, and Yale University. Of those participants, four schools made it to the finals: Sacred Heart University, Providence College, UCONN - Stamford, and Central CT State University.
Each team member had a role in the project, but ultimately, they all worked together to produce a winning project. Four out of the five team members were athletes at SHU. There were also two members of the men's lacrosse team, Brayden Edwards, and Drew Pritts. The group credits a lot of their success to being athletes and understanding the hard work, communication, and teamwork that go into producing a successful product as a group.
The competition took place on the Tuesday of midterms week. The group put in countless hours of preparation leading up to the presentation. It paid off in the end as the team won the competition, the first time Sacred Heart has won.
The group was tasked with compiling a business plan for a company, and all schools in the Hartford competition were given the same company, KAMAN. As they move forward, they will be competing against students from different schools that won their respective sub-region.
The next step is the CFA Regional Challenge, where the team will compete against teams along the East Coast. This next portion of the competition kicks off on March 19th.
The group's presentation and more info about the CFA Institute Research Challenge can be found here.
The CFA Institute Research Challenge is an annual global competition that connects university students with investment professionals from within the CFA Society® network. The competition provides students with hands-on mentoring and intensive training in financial analysis and ethics and tests participants' analytical, valuation, reporting writing, and presentation skills.
Members of the society, along with a faculty advisor and an industry mentor, work with teams of students to value a stock, write a research report, and present their recommendations. Teams then compete with peers from other schools at local-level competitions organized and judged by CFA Society members and volunteers. The winning university team(s) from each local competition then advances to see who will become the sub-regional, regional, and global champions.
Edwards and Pritts were on a team of five Sacred Heart students that won the Hartford Sub-Region CFA Challenge. The group was competing against schools such as Bryant University, Central CT State University, Eastern CT State University, Providence College, Sacred Heart University, Trinity College, UCONN - Stamford, UCONN - Storrs, University of Hartford, University of New Haven, and Yale University. Of those participants, four schools made it to the finals: Sacred Heart University, Providence College, UCONN - Stamford, and Central CT State University.
Each team member had a role in the project, but ultimately, they all worked together to produce a winning project. Four out of the five team members were athletes at SHU. There were also two members of the men's lacrosse team, Brayden Edwards, and Drew Pritts. The group credits a lot of their success to being athletes and understanding the hard work, communication, and teamwork that go into producing a successful product as a group.
The competition took place on the Tuesday of midterms week. The group put in countless hours of preparation leading up to the presentation. It paid off in the end as the team won the competition, the first time Sacred Heart has won.
The group was tasked with compiling a business plan for a company, and all schools in the Hartford competition were given the same company, KAMAN. As they move forward, they will be competing against students from different schools that won their respective sub-region.
The next step is the CFA Regional Challenge, where the team will compete against teams along the East Coast. This next portion of the competition kicks off on March 19th.
The group's presentation and more info about the CFA Institute Research Challenge can be found here.
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