Local students compete at fair

By Sam Waller

Albany’s Bradee Stautzenberger had a big weekend at the West Texas Fair and Rodeo.

Albany FFA students stayed busy in the fair’s second week, exhibiting livestock projects and competing in judging contests.

Stautzenberger caught a calf in the calf scramble to finish seventh. She earned $700 to put toward the purchase of an animal for next year’s fair.

In the show ring, Alli McDaniel placed fourth and Chase McDaniel was seventh in Full Blood Boer Goats.

In the ORB Heifers, Stautzenberger was fifth and Myleigh Leveridge was sixth.

On Monday, Sept. 11, two Albany FFA Livestock teams competed in the judging contest.

“This was a great opportunity to learn and kick off the judging season,” Albany FFA advisor Chris Beard said. “We competed in two divisions, junior and senior levels.”

The Junior team consisted of Connor Smith, Hattie Braly, Tatum Grady, and Stautzenberger.

Senior team members were Kenzie Neve, Callan Edgar, and Madailein Beard.