Red Raiders pull a lot of wool

Tech Wool Judging team earns third-place finish in competition
Chelsea Kimble/Staff Writer/Daily Toreador

HOUSTON - The Texas Tech College of Agriculture Wool Judging team finished its last competition of the year Thursday with a third-place finish.

Two teams of Tech students competed against other collegiate teams at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, in which the Red team was awarded third place overall in the Wool Judging Contest at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Award Breakfast and Presentation.

One of the coaches, L.J. Ashorn, an animal and food science graduate student, said the students are split into the Red team and the Black team because only four students can compete per team. The entire team consists of 12 freshmen and one senior.

The teams competed in two other competitions this year at Denver in January and San Antonio in February, said Kevin Pond, Animal and Food Science Department chairman.

Pond said the students did well at Houston competition and he was proud of the coaches for the year.

"L.J. and Moriah are awesome coaches with high morals and good work ethics," he said.

What the F is a wool judging team? I'd assume you either judge sheep's wool or judges judge your sheep? I'm thinking it involves sheep anyway. Who knows? A couple weeks ago I had fun with a story about the meat judging team but this is just too much. By the way, I have no idea what is up with the picture. I was looking for something with sheep and that was too much to pass up.