Congratulations to DECA's 2025-26 Emerging Leader Honor Award Recipients

Apr 10, 2026

We are excited to announce the 2025-26 recipients of DECA’s Emerging Leader Honor Award!

The Emerging Leader Honor Award recognizes members who have been involved at the local, chartered association and DECA Inc. levels. These members are graduating seniors who have maintained at least a 3.2 cumulative grade point average, completed at least one course in marketing, business management and administration, entrepreneurship, finance, or hospitality and tourism and participated in a variety of activities that helped them become community-oriented, professionally responsible and experienced leaders.

See the entire list of DECA’s 2025-26 emerging leaders here. Congratulations to all our outstanding DECA Emerging Leaders!

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Hollianne Sprowl
Education Manager
hollianne@deca.org

Hollianne Sprowl is DECA’s education manager. In this role, she leads the design and implementation of educational resources, advisor professional learning series and programs to support local chapter advisors. She also leads DECA’s student leadership development framework that advances DECA’s mission of preparing emerging leaders and entrepreneurs.

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