The Department of Animal Science competitive teams are rounding out a successful spring contest season. Recent results from the livestock judging, wool judging and rodeo teams are below.

Learn more about the department's 10 competitive teams here.

Livestock Judging Team

The Aggies finished out a strong spring season with an excellent day at Houston!

Team:

  • 1st Overall
  • 1st Reasons
  • 1st Placings
  • 1st Cattle
  • 1st Brahmans
  • 1st Hogs
  • 1st Sheep/Goats

Individual:

  • Conner Knudson: 1st overall, 1st reasons, 1st hogs, 4th cattle, 6th sheep/goats, 7th placings
  • Tate Hogan: 2nd overall, 5th reasons, 6th cattle, 7th sheep/goats, 10th placings
  • Cooper Thompson: 4th overall, 2nd hogs, 2nd sheep/goats, 8th reasons
  • Gunner Coburn: 11th overall, 6th reasons, 7th hogs
  • Weston McElroy: 9th hogs

Alternates Division:

  • Emmitt Meyring : 4th overall
  • Cooper Ford: 8th overall
  • Blake Peterson: 9th overall

Other team members include:

Taylor Turner, Ethan Sanchez, Karson Patton, Keilee Day, Hannah McElrath, Kaley Pieper, Caitlyn Hobbs, Kyle Real, Brylee Williams, Kendahl Nix, Sara Jennings, Hunter Knudson

Thank you to the staff and HLSR for hosting such a high quality contest! Also a big thank you to all the operations that allowed us to come in and practice!

Aggie Rodeo Team

The Texas Aggie Rodeo Team showed up at their hometown rodeo on March 8-9 in Bryan. We had three event champions as well as the Champion Women's Team.

Texas A&M University Rodeo Results

Team

  • Champion Women's Team

Breakaway Roping

  • Josie McMahon: 4th Long Go

Tiedown Roping

  • Bryson Dyer: 4th Avg

Steer Wrestling

  • Trace Harris: 4th Avg
  • Boyd Hanagriff: 4th Long Go
  • Paxton Wood: 6th Long Go

Goat Tying

  • Madalyn Richards: Champion

Bareback Riding

  • Gavin French: Champion

Barrel Racing

  • Emma Smith: Champion
  • Kailey Ramsey: 2nd Avg
  • McKinlee Paschal: 5th Avg
  • Victoria Proctor: 6th Avg

Wool Judging Team

The Texas A&M Wool Judging Team was named the reserve national champion at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Intercollegiate Wool Judging contest.

Team Results (Maroon):

  • 2nd high team overall
  • 2nd grading
  • 1st placing and reasons

Maroon team members included: Benjamin Flanagan, Coy Jacobs, Katrina Johnson, and Jamisen Capps.

Team Results (White):

  • 3rd overall
  • 3rd grading
  • 3rd placing and reasons

White team members included: Samuel Seidenberger, Mia Morderski, Savay Sexton, and Brayden Bennett.

The team had seven members place in the top 10 individual overall, six in the top 10 individual grading, and seven in the top 10 individual placing and reasons

Team members:

  • Benjamin Flanagan: 2nd high individual overall, 6th grading, 1st placing & reasons
  • Samual Seidenberger: 4th high individual overall, 3rd grading
  • Koda Davis: 5th high individual overall, 4th grading
  • Brant Werner: 7th high individual overall, 7th placing & reasons
  • Mia Morderski: 8th high individual overall, 6th placing & reasons
  • Coy Jacobs: 9th high individual overall, 5th grading
  • David Kendrick: 10th high individual overall, 10th placing & reasons
  • Corbin Garner: 9th grading
  • Savay Sexton: 10th grading
  • Lily Ford: 4th placing & reasons
  • Owen Sanders: 5th placing & reasons
  • Molly Freis: 8th placing & reasons