CCDC Ohio Release Statement

On February 2 Lakeland Community College won 1st in Ohio for CCDC State Qualifiers. The team was composed of Adam Stephens and I, both Cisco 3 students. We are the smallest team to ever win in Ohio and advance to Midwest Regionals. To top it off we placed 4th out of 20 teams overall in 5 states. Our two person team faced against other teams that had up to eight members. I served as the Firewall, Web, Windows, Linux, and Splunk Admin. Additionally I did Inject Management and was the Team Captain. Adam was the Linux/Windows Admin and Inject Manager.

I put a lot of time, money, and effort into CCDC. I studied two hours every day after work. I originally started out as a Web/Linux Admin and had to self-learn Firewall and Windows administration. Over the Summer I coded the entire Inject Scoring Engine website. I have an entire binder filled with notes that gets bigger everyday. I created my own identical lab environment from the ground up. I started my own team at Cuyahoga Community College just to participate. I then broke every glass ceiling in Ohio. I became Ohio's first female technical Admin in 2017. I placed second at Invitationals Group 1 single-handedly as a 1-person team. I don't just want to be a jack of all trades; I strive to be the Avatar, Master of all elements. We finished with ~90% service up-time and 90% inject submission. I revived four service failures and utilized only 1 scrub. We were able to complete injects even faced with adversity and work around the issues.

My next goal is to place top 3 at Midwest Regionals. We will need help. Here is a link to Questions. Feel free to answer them privately or publicly. This win is also dedicated to all of Cleveland's Community Colleges. Community Colleges in Cleveland have won twice in a row now. First it was Tri-C. Now Lakeland. Thanks to Dr. Keith Lyons of Tri-C and David Durkee of Lakeland for believing in me.

See you at Regional's BW. I know you will win Wildcards. Ohio has come so far.