Lake Land College agriculture and horticulture students earn achievements at conference

For Immediate Release – February 24, 2023

Several Lake Land College Agriculture and Horticulture students attended the PAS (Professional Agriculture Students) conference in Springfield on Thursday, February 7 to test their knowledge in competitions against other colleges and universities in various areas of agriculture.

Overall the teams earned the following honors:

College Agriculture Quiz Bowl -First place team
Beef Livestock Specialist -First place team
Sheep Livestock Specialist -Third place team
Overall Livestock Specialist -Second & Third place teams

Several individual participants earned honors as well. They are as follows:

Maggie Kelly –Quiz Bowl First team, Second Beef Specialist, First Beef team
Tyler Lee-First Beef team
Hannah Buse –Quiz Bowl First team, Third Beef Specialist, First Beef team
Brian Clapp-Third Sheep Team
Paige Lemenager – Quiz Bowl First team, Third Sheep Team
Montgomery Bertrand-Third Sheep Team
Gabe Hanson-Third Livestock team
Weston Tharpe-Third Livestock team
Skylar Ward-Third Livestock team
Grace Bock -Second Quiz Bowl First team, Second Livestock team
Tucker Walton -Second Livestock team
Luke Brinkensnider -First Overall Livestock, Second Livestock team
Vinny Smolckovich – Quiz Bowl First team
Sara Weber – Quiz Bowl First team, First Horticulture Specialist, First team Hort.
Kennedi Mullen -First team Hort.
Sophia Wagner-Third Horticulture Specialist, Second team Hort.
Lily Towles -Second Horticulture Specialist, Second team Hort.

Other student participants included Cooper Bertolino, Reese Brock, Brantly Cooper, Kara Freebarin, Cara Griener, Tyler Hall, Miles Hannon, Ashtyn Harvey and Jackie Schertz.

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