The 76th Annual
Block and Bridle Round Up was held on March 6-7, 2015 in Brehm Animal Science
Building on the University of Tennessee Agriculture Campus. This event is the
highlight of the spring semester for club members.
The event kicked off Friday
evening with Sheep and Hog collegiate showmanship and the alumni reception. During
the alumni reception, members served alumni a delicious bbq dinner and hosted a
live and silent auction. This was the first year for the alumni event and it
was greatly enjoyed. During the live auction, Dr. Neal Schrick, Animal Science
Department Head auctioned off three bricks from the historic Brehm building to
raise funds for the department.
On Saturday, the club hosted
over 300 4-H and FFA students from across Tennessee and North Carolina for
livestock, dairy and meat judging contests. Many members served as officials,
group leaders and learning clinic teachers.
The Block and Bridle members
were given two weeks to break a sheep, hog, dairy heifer or beef heifer for
showing throughout the weekend. On Friday evening students showed sheep and
hogs with winners continuing on to round robin on Saturday evening. After the
contests on Saturday were complete the club members showed their beef and dairy
heifers to name the finalist in the respective species. There were three
divisions in each species, beginner, intermediate and advanced. Winners were
named in each division. The overall collegiate showmanship winner was John
Edwards.
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| Showmanship Winner, John Edwards with our species judges |
Mark your calendar for Round Up 2016, March 4-5, 2016.
