have made top ten in senior showmanship the past three years at Junior Nationals with this in mind. My junior show career days have come to an end, and as the saying goes “save the best for last” I saved my best year for last! This past junior nationals in Kansas City, I was awarded the Walter & Joe Lewis Memorial High Point Senior Award. This award means a great deal as it recognizes achievement outside of the show ring as well as your bred and owned and owned cattle. The Lewis Family have been lifelong friends with both my parents and my mother’s parents so a meaningful award for all of my family. I was selected as the outstanding senior in our state of Kansas as well as receiving the Premier Junior Breeder award this show which I have won one other time in 2019. A top Ten
Senior Showmanship accomplishment was a goal throughout my last year and one that is extremely tough to accomplish with such intense competition. The Bred and Owned Heifer Show has always been special to me as it shows the result of your breeding program. Therefore, having my fall born heifer selected as Reserve Overall Bred and Owned heifer along with a Division Champion Bull Banner and a Reserve Division Yearling Female it was certainly a bittersweet way to conclude my junior show career. However, I can look back on the memories of the 14 years of traveling around the country annually for Hereford Junior Nationals and remember I have met the most amazing people, seen top-notch cattle, and learned more every year about the Hereford Breed and Industry. I do not know where the future will take the breed or the livestock industry with so much uncertainty in the past few years. However, I do know that if junior livestock shows are being held. There will be leaders of the industry being raised in these barns that will learn to compete at the highest level in everything they do. I am certain they will change the world for the better. •
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