The Sealy FFA Horse team made its 2024 debut at the Katy Taylor-Jordan CDE.
Greenhand Ella Curtis placed 21st out of over 500 contestants, leading the team.
Team members joining Ella were Callie Whatley, Avery Balensiefer and Sadie Yentzen.
The Horse team competed in their 2nd contest at HLSR against over 200 teams.
Avery Balensiefer led the team of Ella, Callie and Sadie.
The Sealy FFA Meats Team competed at HLSR’s largest meats contest in HLSR history. Wyatt Erwin tied for 17th along with Jackson Burttschell and Brady Burttschell.
The team placed 13th out of 89 FFA teams and 286 individuals in the FFA Division.
The Bellville FFA tractor tech team placed 3rd at the STATE contest.
All three boys were in the top 10 individually, with Chaise Richter placing 5th, Donnie Smart placing 6th and Chase Hardin placing 7th.
This contest has three parts. First contestants must take a written exam and complete a components section to advance to the floor.
Only the top 10 teams make it to the floor to work on the tractor to find 5 bugs hidden inside the tractor.
Brazos B.U.D.S. had a long week at the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo. The group had students compete in Texas Tables, Rodeo Cup and Container Plants. The highlight of the day was Sophia Vykukal with Reserve Champion Rodeo Cup.Texas Tables: Sophia Vykukal, Rylea Roecker, Trinity Melnar. Rodeo Cup: Sophia Vykukal, Rylea Roecker, Trinity Melnar, Maggie Richardson, Ashlyn Kloesel (not pictured), Bayleigh Marek, and Gracie Bertrand. Container Plants Gracie Bertrand.
Last week was the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Nursery/Landscape and Floriculture Judging Contests.
The Landscape team was the Grand Champion Team.
Layne Malinowski was the 3rd high individual, Levi Malinowski was the 5th high individual, Matthew Wybro was the 6th high individual, and James Haisler was the 18th high individual.
The Floriculture team was the 3rd High Place Team out of 93 teams today.
Brazos FFA officially ended San Antonio Expo last week with Luke Vykukal exhibiting his tractor restoration project and earning a blue ribbon, and the livestock team competing as well. Now the group is competing at Rodeo Houston.
