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Kingfisher FFA Livestock Judging Team Claims Top Honors at National Western in Denver
Wed, 20 Jan 2010 5:55:43 CST
Kingfisher FFA won the National Western Livestock Judging Contest in Denver earlier this month. This is the second year in a row the chapter has earned this honor. Since the same team cannot participate twice, Mr. Ryan Burns, chapter advisor, assembled a team of three sophomores and a freshman.
The qualifying contest is at the Tulsa State Fair, where the team placed third. The first place team was the Kingfisher team that won the National Western last year and the second place team was from Haworth, who also had been to Denver. Since both of those teams were ineligible to return to Denver, the younger Kingfisher team earned the chanced to compete at the National level. The team consisted of Matthew Walta, who also was the high individual, Katie Lippoldt, who was 10th high individual, Spencer Struck, and Kaitlin Pritchett.
Walta, on his way to winning the overall high individual award, also was first in the Beef and Sheep categories; Katie Lippold was first in the goats category and Spencer Struck was first in the Swine division. The team won the Beef, Swine and Reasons categories on their way to a win over teams from Minnesota, Indiana, Oregon and Texas who rounded out the top five in the FFA division in the Mile High City.
Click on the link below for the complete results- and our thanks to the Kingfisher FFA Parents for sharing this good news with the rest of us.
The picture here includes: Front row is: Katie Lippoldt, Matthew Walta and Kaitlin Pritchett. Back row is Spencer Struck and Mr. Ryan Burns.
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