Olympia FFA Livestock Judging Team Places 3rd at LLCC

 

[May 01, 2019] 

The Olympia FFA Livestock Judging Team competed at the Lincoln Land Community College Livestock Judging CDE on Thursday, April 18th. The team placed third out of 53 teams from mostly central Illinois.

Lincoln Land Community College hosted the CDE at the Illinois State Fairgrounds in Springfield.

The Olympia team was led by junior, Kaylin Simpson who placed 17th out of 288 individuals. The other team members included: Molly Schempp (18th), Ty Miller (21st), Bailey Rogers (26th), Cavit Schempp, Lane Schweigert, Josie Litwiller, Ethan Davis, and Noah Reber.

Mr. Hoffman stated, "I have been really pleased with how everyone has judged the past few weeks. They made it very tough on me to narrow it down to the five who will compete at the State Livestock Judging CDE."

L-R Front: Bailey Rogers, Cavit Schempp, Josie Litwiller, and Molly Schempp
Back L-R: Ethan Davis, Ty Miller, Lane Schweigert, Noah Reber, and Kaylin Simpson

Those individuals who will judge at State include: Molly Schempp, Kaylin Simpson, Bailey Rogers, Cavit Schempp, and Ty Miller. Students judge four species including beef cattle, swine, sheep and meat goats.

The team also did very well at the Section 9 Livestock Judging CDE where Ethan Davis was the high individual overall.

[Bryce A. Hoffman
Ag Teacher/FFA Advisor
Olympia High School]