U of I Team Named Reserve National Champions
Published: Apr. 9, 2008
EDITOR'S NOTE: This release contains information about students from Oblong, Fults, Dewey, Cabery, Oneida, Pontiac, Quincy, Taylorville, Bement, Moweaqua, and Edinburg.
URBANA - The University of Illinois Meat Animal Evaluation team has been named Reserve National Champion at the 2008 National Collegiate Meat Animal Evaluation Contest, the "World Series" of collegiate judging events. The event was held March 27-29 in Oklahoma City and Stillwater, OK.
Fifteen universities and 122 contestants competed in the event won by Texas Tech University, followed by the University of Illinois and South Dakota State. Two of the U of I team members placed in the top 10 overall: Brian Down of Cabery was second high individual, scoring 2,170 points out of 2,600; and Justin Adcock of Moweaqua was seventh with 2,155 points.
The team placed fifth in meat evaluation, second in breeding animal evaluation and market evaluation, and fifth in the communication challenge division.
Other team members include: Rich Chapple of Fults, Daniel Clark of Oblong, Ariel Denny of Dewey, Sarah England of Oneida, Jacob Jones of Pontiac, Whitney Keller of Quincy, Travis Meeter of Taylorville, and Rachel Stuart of Edinburg. Jason Perry of Bement was an alternate. Coaching the team are Tom Carr, Dan Shike, and Brandon Yantis, all of the U of I Department of Animal Sciences.
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