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Trinity Valley beef cattle team earns award in Houston

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Trinity Valley Community College Beef Cattle Show Team has built a winning reputation.

For each of the past 10 yesshe WCChfeahf'has brotigl the/CrtSrolais Good' Herdsman Award home from the Houston Livestock Show. Earlier this month, the 2010-11 show team made it 11.

The TVCC Beef Cattle Show Team was involved in the Open Charolais Cattle division of the show during the first weekend in March.

"The students worked very-hard to win the Good Herdsman Award. The competitors have to keep their area perfectly clean at all times and their cattle perfectly groomed, have a nice looking display and demonstrate courtesy to all who come by," said show team sponsor Marc Robinson.

While considering TVCC for the award, Robinson said members of the judging committee stopped by the college's stalls several times during the livestock show to grade the students on a variety of factors, including:

Orderliness and cleanliness of exhibit, stalls, and animals;

Promptness in cleaning animal stalls as well as each individual animal;

Systematic and neat arrangement of equipment, feed and forage;

Personal appearance of herdsmen and helpers'; and,

Cooperation with other exhibitors and exhibition of good sportsmanship.

"The team received numerous compliments as to their professionalism and on how wrell the cattle looked. This year's team was just as dedicated to winning the Charolais Good Herdsman award as former teams and they did," said Robinson.

In addition to the Good Herdsman Award, several individual members of the team brought honors home from Houston.

Maegan Gibson of Quinlan brought home a first place individual award, taking the top honor in the Early Junior Yearling Heifers category while showing TVCC MS Supreme. She also took the Senior Division Champion Female award.

The team also earned several other awards:

Second in class - Gibson - Junior Heifer Calves - TVCC MS Eliza

Second in class - Jessica Price of Caddo Mills - Winter Heifers - TVCC MS Unlimited

Second in class - Ryan Patton of Montalba - Senior

Heifer Calves - TVCC MS Wind

Second in class - TVCC Show Team Captain Saman-tha Kinzie of Grand Saline - Early Spring Bull Calves

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Second in class - Jalisa Corbin of Buffalo - Spring Yearling Bulls - DCF Free fa II

Third in class - Cody

Barnes of Malakoff - Senior Heifer Calves - C LINK MS 934 Dutch Maker

Third in class - Price r Early Spring Yearling Fei males - DCF Image.



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