Good eye for superior quality? If you can tell the best ostrich egg or dairy cow from a group and why, you might want to join the judging team. The Lakeland College Judging Team is the longest-running and largest intercollegiate judging program in western Canada.
The Judging team is a very active group on campus. Judging workshops are held weekly. The team is able to utilize the college farm units for various judging classes. Team members travel to several judging competitions each year including: University of Saskatchewan, University of Alberta, Olds college, Farm Fair, Canadian Western Agribition, and Macdonald College in Quebec. The team is also active in the local 4-H community. With members assisting as public speaking judges, as well as providing judges and organization to the annual You Be The Judge 4-H clinic. Each year the team puts on their home town judging competition held on Little Royal weekend. Beginner judges and expert judges are both welcome to join the team.
Lakeland’s Judging Team is proudly sponsored by the Vermilion Agricultural Society.
Contact:
Peter Walsh
Peter.Walsh@lakelandcollege.ca
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| Another win--this time Saskatoon | |
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Another one for the win column. On Jan. 29, 2010 a team of Lakeland College ag students traveled to Saskatoon with instructor Blair Dow to compete in the University of Saskatchewan Stockman’s Judging Competition. Students on the team were Rosalie Beaudoin, Jesse Nykoliation, Hope Eaton and Sammi-Jo Fuchs. Carla Schmitt also joined the group for the trip but judged with a 4-H group. As part of the competition, the team went to Saskatoon Livestock Services to judge three livestock classes (steers, replacement heifers and light horse) as well as two forage classes (silage and hay). They also completed a breed identification quiz, an anatomy quiz and a placings class with pictures of Jersey heifers. After results were tallied, team Lakeland earned reserve grand champion. Beaudoin was the top overall judge. Lakeland team members showed their strengths in several classes as they competed against other post-secondary teams including three from the U of S. Overall, the experience was excellent and a lot of fun. |
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| We are the Champions--22nd Annual Western Canadian Judging Competition | |
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On Friday, March 19, Lakeland College hosted the 22nd annual Western Canadian Judging Competition at the Vermilion campus. The event had over 100 judges from 4-H teams, universities and colleges from across Alberta and Saskatchewan. For the third year in a row, the home team took the title as grand champion and also had a member earn the title of grand champion judge. The two teams from Lakeland had a battle of the sexes as it was the ladies' team of Bree Patterson, Carla Schmitt, Krista Van Sickle and Shelby Longworth against the guys' team of Jan van de Brake, Kenton Lindenbach, Jesse Nykoliation and Preston Komarnisky. In the end, it was the guys team coming out victorious defeating a team from the University of Alberta and a team from Olds College. The women finished in fourth, ahead of Olds College's Team 2. Lindenbach finished as grand champion judge. Longworth finished in third spot. The guys’ team also finished the competition with a total of eight team awards, including first place finishes in the mystery, beef and swine classes, as well as team reasons and the grand championship. While the girls’ team did not have any first place finishes, they had five team awards, including two second place finishes. Individually, members from both teams captured a total of 13 individual awards, including five first place finishes in sheep and beef (va de Brake) and dairy, mystery and overall (Lindenbach). Award winners from the ladies team included Longworth (sheep, dairy, horse and overall), Schmitt (beef, reasons) and Patterson (mystery). The students on the judging team get a bit of a break now until their next competition which will be at the University of Alberta on April 10. After that, it will be time to focus on final exams as the year draws to a very successful close. |
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