Harvey golfer Alex Boskovic enters his senior season riding a lot of momentum after being part of a national championship-winning team early last month.
Boskovic and his teammates, Symone Bibb and Jacob Boehm, claimed a national title in Broadcast Journalism earlier this month at the 2025 Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) National Leadership Conference in Anaheim, Calif.
The victory was a milestone for Harvey’s FBLA chapter, which last earned a national title in 2016 in Digital Video Production. The competition featured state champions from across the nation, and only the best advanced through the grueling rounds.
“They have a big opening session where they kind of just try to hype up all the kids, and then the following day is the competitions,” Boskovic said. “It’s a long time before you make it to the final round. They posted the results at 5:00 a.m., and your final competition could be like at 8:00 a.m., so it’s a really stressful night.”
That early-morning posting created one of Boskovic’s most memorable moments of the trip.
“I tried to wake up at 5:00 a.m., but I must have slept through my alarm,” he said. “I was rooming with my buddy Jake. He got up, and I heard him screa,m and I was like, ‘What is happening?’ I look over and he said, ‘We made it to the next round.’ He was so freaked out, and then I couldn’t go back to sleep. I was shaking in my bed; I was so excited.”
Harvey’s winning presentation covered the major storms that swept through Lake County in 2024, including five tornadoes that touched down in the area. The team chose the topic because it was personal.
“We decided to choose that one as it was so close to home, and everyone has a story,” Boskovic said. “Everyone knows where they were when that hit. For me, I just got home from baseball practice, and my chickens were running around the backyard. I had to run outside as the storm started to come in, and the sirens were going off. I had to round up all my chickens and put them back in the coop. Everyone knows where they were at and that’s why we really wanted to choose it.”
Boskovic, Bibb and Boehm have spent years performing together in musicals, choirs, instrumental ensembles, and the Red Raider Marching Band. They’re also National Honor Society members with high GPAs, and Boskovic himself was a second-team All-Chagrin Valley Conference selection in golf last fall.
In preparation for nationals, Harvey’s FBLA chapter held regular meetings, bringing in mentors from the Avery Dennison Foundation, which, along with the Veale Youth Entrepreneurship Forum, funded the trip to Anaheim.
“We had two wonderful mentors from Avery Dennison,” Boskovic said. “They’ve helped our program before, and they gave us wonderful advice on how to get started. We would listen to them do our student of our own research, and at the end of the meeting, we would check back in. Avery Dennison is a wonderful sponsor for our FBLA chapter. We wouldn’t have even been to Ohio FBLA if it wasn’t for them, let alone how expensive it was to travel out there. Their generosity is really what made us champions.”
The win was especially sweet for Boskovic, who was part of the team that finished second in Broadcast Journalism at the 2024 FBLA conference. Now, with a national title under his belt, he says FBLA has changed his life and the lives of his teammates.
“Symone had no passion for journalism but now, she got an internship at I think Fox Eight News for Cleveland and she’s trying to go to college for journalism. It truly changes people’s lives,” he said.
As chapter president in his senior year, Boskovic has become a leader through the program.
“My sister was in it,” he said. “She was in it throughout her time in high school, and I’ve always kind of had, I would just say, a mature mindset. I’ve always really thought about my future and FBLA, it’s just such an interesting program, where there’s so many different topics you can choose from. And I love being a leader. I love leading in school and on the golf team. I love leading in my community, and so just having a chance to be a future business leader of America was amazing, and that’s why I really tried in my freshman and sophomore year in the program. I ended up becoming the president of our chapter in my senior year.”
Boskovic plans to double major in Business Management and Human Resources in college, but first, he’ll enjoy one last golf season at Harvey.
“As a senior golfer, I’m just trying to do the best I can,” he said. “I’m going into the season with more confidence than I’ve had in any other season, and I’m really just trying to have fun this year, just trying to have a good time. FBLA has taught me so much with business, and golfing is so close to business. I’m just really looking to hone my game, do as best I can for my team, and hopefully do some good for my school.”
Reflecting on the journey, Boskovic said winning nationals has been life-changing.
“I’ve really learned how to be a leader at all of the SLCs, our State Leadership Conferences,” he said. “They have all these spokespersons, very, very successful people, and entrepreneurs that really give us great advice on what to do. Winning nationals alone can nearly guarantee full rides to many good colleges. I had no interest in broadcast journalism before, but I was the one who made the majority of our actual PowerPoint, and making that was a ton of fun. It was something I was really passionate in and I really didn’t think I was going to have so much fun. I feel so much more creative now. No matter what I do or wherever I go to college, whatever I study, everything I’ve learned here is definitely going to impact that.”
