First B&B Club Meeting 9-10-13

Attention! The first Block and Bridle Club Meeting of the year will be held on Tuesday September 10, at 6:00 pm in the Block and Bridle Lounge on the first floor of Brehm Animal Science. Please tell any new and returning students about this opportunity! We hope to see everyone there!

B&B Members at the 2013 Animal Science Awards Banquet!

Brehm Arena all decked out for Roundup 2013!

Fall Animal Science Smoker!

The Animal Science Smoker will be held next Wednesday, August 28th, at 5:30 pm on the front lawn of Brehm Animal Science. Many campus clubs and organizations will be there to recruit new members, and you will also get the chance to meet Animal Science faculty and staff members!

Free hot dogs, chips, cookies and drinks will be provided so bring your Animal Science friends and get ready for a night of fun to kick off the 2013-2014 academic year in our new building!

2013-2014 B&B Club Officers

Congratulations to Our New Officers!

President: Alyssa Clements

Vice-President: Hannah Wright

Treasurer: Kendra Flynn

Secretary: Sarah Hargrove

Reporter: Megan Moore

Meals Chairs: Sarah Maccaro & Courtney Mize

New Members Marshalls: Paige Jared & Courtney Mize

Event Set Up: Josh Snyder & Jessi Tipton

Activities Chair: Kendra Flynn

Don't forget there is a B&B meeting on Tuesday, April 9th at 6:00 pm in the B&B Lounge!

We have several items to discuss including the B&B Club Lamb Sale (April 6th), All East Livestock Evaluation Contest (April 11-14th), and B&B awards for the Animal Science Banquet (April 23)!

The 2013 B&B Club Lamb Sale Catalog is now available on the UT Animal Science webpage! Follow the link to view ewes and wethers from some top Tennessee breeders! Other lambs are also going to be available on sale day but have not been pictured yet.

http://animalscience.ag.utk.edu/documents/ClubLamb2013Catalog.pdf

B&B Roundup Scheduled for March 2, 2013!

Please mark your calendars for the 74th annual UT Block & Bridle Roundup to be held Saturday, March 2, 2013 in the Brehm Animal Science Building on the Agriculture Campus at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. 

The Block & Bridle Club has a busy day planned for 4-H and FFA members from across the state in our new arena! The day will begin with registration from 7:00-8:30 am and the Livestock and Meats Judging Clinics will begin at 9:00 am. Lunch will be at approximately at 11:30 am with the contests to follow. The Meats Judging Contest is new this year, and we are fortunate enough to have Dr. Dwight Loveday assisting with this new addition!

Divisions for Meats and Livestock will be as follows*:

Junior** 4th-6th, Junior High** 7th-8th, and Senior High*** 9th-12th

*You must choose either Meats or Livestock, a student cannot participate in both.

**In the Meats Clinic and Contest Junior and Junior High will be judged together

***Senior High students will give two sets of oral reasons for Livestock Judging

The link for online team entry is posted below. Please make every reasonable effort to have your entries in by the deadline for early entry, 5:00 pm on Wednesday, February 27th. 

http://animalscience.ag.utk.edu/block&bridleclub/roundup/SubmitterInfo_list.asp

Click on "add new" to add your team(s) to the entry form.

Early entries will be $6 per student (payable on March 2nd), and late or day of entries will be $10 per student so please get them in early. 

We look forward to seeing everyone and we hope you enjoy getting to see the new Brehm Animal Science Building! T-shirts will be available for purchase as well, and lunch will be provided for all participants, additional lunch tickets will be available for $5 to agents, parents, etc. We will have a limited number of lunches available so please register early online and include extra lunches in your "eating lunch" count on the entry form.

If you have questions, comments, or concerns please call me at 865-974-4160, or email me at jharri50@utk.edu.