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Twelve students traveled to Colorado State University during the spring break to take part in the National Collegiate Landscape Competition (NCLC), an annual three-day event that brings together the top students and horticultural companies, top industry companies and dozens of the largest industry manufacturers and suppliers.
The UMASS NCLC team consisted of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning (LARP) and Michael Davidsohn from the Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning (LARP) and Kristina Bezanson and consisting of students, landscape contracts, landscape plants and stage scise, urban development, urban development and urban development and Applied and stage scenes as well as stage scise and stage scision and adaptation as well as stage scise and stage scise and stage scise and stage scise and stage scise and stage scise.
At the event, the best employers in the industry assessed 28 different events that tested the skills and knowledge of the students. A career fair followed the possibility for students and these employers to demonstrate their practical skills in which companies from all over the nation were represented by environmentally friendly companies.
Before they traveled to the event, all Umass students had the opportunity to polish their curriculum vitae and practice their interview skills in a career center on the umass campus. The event gives some students the opportunity to return from the competition with job offers in their hands long before they graduated.
“None of this would have been possible without the support of our alumni donors, corporate donations and the continued support of the Massachusetts Association of Landscape Professionals and the Massachusetts Arborist Association,” says Davidsohn. “We are grateful to our alumni and industry donors that they have generously supported our students when they prepare for entry into the Green Industries.”
A total of 20 placed 20TH Of 53 universities represented in the competition. The three most important students or student teams in each event were awarded at the final day at the closing ceremony, and several umass students were included in the ceremony, including Eli Spencer (landscape architecture), second place for inner landscape design and James Walston (landscape architecture), third place for 3D autße design. Dante Filadoro's team (Turfgrass Science and Management), Jake Rasmuson (Landscape contracting) and Matteo Mariano (Landscape contracting) took third place at the time -controlled event for landscapes.
The complete umass NCLC team for 2025 was:
- Ben Haines (landscape contract)
- Matteo Mariano (landscape contract)
- Jake Rasmuson (landscape contract)
- Eli Spencer (landscape architecture)
- James Walston (landscape architecture)
- Nolan Doyle (Applied Plant & Soil Sciences)
- June Moulis (urban forestry)
- Henry Holmes (tree care product)
- Dante Filadoro (Turstgrass Science and Management)
- Jack Collins (Turstgrass management)
- Connor Salmon (building and construction technology)
- Sean Weber (sustainable community development)