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Southwind 4-Hers get reserve champ honors
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Ten 4-H members had the opportunity to represent the Southwind Extension District at the 4th Kansas 4-H Livestock Sweepstakes Weekend on the Kansas State University campus. Their skills and knowledge were challenged by participating in four contests. Those attending were (from left to right back row): Riley Angleton, Chase Gleason, Gus Hopkins, Trent Johnson and Colton Heffern; front row: Hayden Cole, Reagan Dillow, Hannah Fry, Caitlin Dreher and Drew George. (Submitted Photo)
Kansas State University's Department of Animal Sciences and Industry hosted the fourth Kansas 4-H Livestock Sweepstakes event Aug. 25-26 at Weber Hall.
Participants from the Southwind Extension District were Riley Angleton, Hayden Cole, Caitlin Dreher, Reagan Dillow, Hannah Fry, Drew George, Chase Gleason, Colton Heffern, Gus Hopkins, and Trent Johnson, representing seven 4-H Clubs in the three counties.
Four-H members learned new skills and polished up old ones to be competitive in the Sweepstakes event, which consisted of four contests.
The Livestock Judging contest consisted of eight judging classes and four sets of reasons.
Trent Johnson and Colton Heffern tied for eighth in swine, while Hayden Cole tied for 10th in sheep. The Southwind teams were seventh in sheep, eighth in swine, 10th in cattle and placed ninth overall.
The Meats Judging contest was based on identification of 30 retail cuts, six placings classes of retail cuts and carcasses and three sets of reasons.
Drew George was fourth in identification, fourth in placings and sixth high overall individual.
Chase Gleason was second in placings, fourth in reasons and ninth high individual. Hannah Fry was seventh in reasons.
As a team, Southwind was first in placings, second in reasons, fourth in identification and third place overall team. The second Southwind team placed 10th.
In the Livestock Skillathon, 4-Hers rotated individually through stations that addressed six areas of animal science. Those included feedstuffs, breed identification, equipment identification, meat identification and a written test. There was also a team component where members worked together on selecting heifers based on a given scenario, a quality assurance demonstration and wool judging. Trent Johnson placed 10th. The Southwind teams placed fifth and 12th.
The Livestock Quiz Bowl started with a qualifying exam.
The eight teams with the highest average scores competed head to head against each other. Southwind was seated first and third after the test, but finished second and fifth after the head-to-head matches.
For the overall Sweepstakes contest, which takes into account all four contests, Chase Gleason was the high overall sweepstakes winner with Drew George placing fifth; Trent Johnson, 13th; Hannah Fry, 14th; and Caitlin Dreher, 15th. Southwind Extension District completed the weekend by being named as the 2012 Kansas State 4-H Reserve Champion Sweepstakes Team.
Having fun while learning was part of the weekend. In addition to the Call Hall ice cream social, team members caught up with old friends and made new ones.