They did it again.

Members of the Keuka College SIFE (Students in Free Enterprise) team captured another league championship at the 2008 SIFE USA Regional Competition (New York City) April 4.

This makes six regional wins in the last seven years; Keuka was league champion in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2007. Last year, the team took first runner up at the national competition in Dallas, Texas.

As a regional champion, the team advances to the 2008 SIFE USA National Exposition held May 13-15 in Chicago, Ill.

“What really distinguished our team this year was the quality of the projects completed,” said Assistant Professor of Management Neil Siebenhar, team adviser and Sam Walton Fellow. “We are judged on two things: what we accomplished and how well we tell the story of what we accomplished. I think we told the story just as well as we’ve done in years past, but the depth and breadth of our projects was well above everything else we’ve done.”

SIFE is an international, non-profit organization active on more than 1,400 university campuses in 48 countries. SIFE teams create economic opportunities in their communities by organizing outreach projects that focus on market economics, success skills, entrepreneurship, financial literacy, and business ethics.

At the regional competition, Keuka team members delivered multi-media presentations that showed the range of educational outreach projects they completed during the 2007-08 academic year. The Keuka team highlighted 11 key programs, reflecting collaborations with local schools (Global Economy Fair), local businesses and organizations (Finger Lakes Winery and Finance Forum, Finger Lakes Access to Business Capital Program and Microenterprise Assistance Program, Stork Insurance Agency, Trombley Tire and Auto, Business and Professional Women), U.S. Bankruptcy Judge John C. Ninfo II and his Credit Abuse Resistance Education (CARE) program, and Keuka College’s four sister schools in China (Keuka China SIFE Initiative).

Six of the 30 SIFE members delivered the presentation. They were seniors Brady Begeal (Northville), Jason Harrington (political science/history), Jeremy Hourihan (Elmira/Keuka Park), Josh Lankford (Seneca Falls), and Bethany Urban (Baldwinsville), and junior Sarah Picciotto (Liverpool).