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For the Second Time in Three Years- OSU Claims National Livestock Judging Championship
Tue, 13 Nov 2012 20:33:50 CST
For the second time in three years- the Oklahoma State University Livestock Judging Team has won what is considered the National Championship of Collegiate Livestock Judging that is held at the North American International Livestock Exposition each November in Louisville, Kentucky. Steeped in history, the first National Collegiate Judging Contest was held in 1900, the inaugural year of Chicago's International Live Stock Exposition. The winning team came from the University of Illinois, and the high individual was from the University of Wisconsin. Since 1900, the contest has taken place annually except for 6 years when the International was canceled (1914-15, 1942-45). The contest remained in Chicago until 1975, the last year of the historic International Live Stock Exposition. Since 1976, it has been held in Louisville, Kentucky, in conjunction with the North American International Livestock Exposition.
The winningest team over the lifetime of the competition is Iowa State University with 20 titles- many of those in the early years of the contest. Oklahoma State University is one of the perennial powers in the contest in recent years and has now won 17 national titles with the 2012 Championship. In fact, OSU, along with Texas Tech and Texas A&M, have dominated the Contest since 2001, with each of these school winning four times each over the last 12 years.
The OSU squad won by 9 points over second place Colorado State University. According to Head Coach Mark Johnson, who by the way, was named the National Coach of the Year, here are some of the achievements obtained by the OSU team:
OSU had three of the ten All Americans honored during the awards banquet:
Katie Duysen
Morgan Meisenheimer
Clay Zwilling
Highlights for Indivduals on the OSU team:
Jamie Bloomberg was 4th High Individual in Sheep, 7th in Cattle,
High individual in Cattle Reasons, 2nd in Reasons and the 2 nd High Individual Overall.
Katie Duysen was 5th in Swine.
Morgan Meisenheimer was the High Individual in Swine, 2nd in Cattle, High Individual in Reasons and 5th High Individual Overall
Jake Warntjes - team member
Clay Zwilling - team member
The team accomplishements include:
National Champion Team in the following divisions: Oral Reasons, Sheep, Swine and Overall with a score of 4704.
Coach Dr Mark Johnson was recognized as the National Coach of the year.
The National Championship, following their victory at the American Royal last week, make them only the 12th team in history (and 2nd OSU team in past three years) to win the Kansas City and Louisville contests back to back.
Other members of the 2012 National Championship team include:
Emily Bardot
Rachelle Blakley
McKenzie Clifton
Marissa Garside
Chris Hall
Chris Hofschulte
Chastin Leggett
Ryan McCoon
Mark Sims
Shelby Skinner
Assistant Coaches:
Blake Bloomberg
Clint Mefford
To read more about the history of the National Championship for Livestock Judging, as well as more details about the 2012 contest, including all of the results, Click here.
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