WTAMU meat judging scores big at national competition

  • WTAMU meat judging won the tough American Royal Meat Judging contest on Oct. 15. Nazareth’s Ryan Heitschmidt, a junior at WTAMU, is a member of the team and ranked fourth overall, first in placings, second in beef judging and fourth in lamb judging.
    WTAMU meat judging won the tough American Royal Meat Judging contest on Oct. 15. Nazareth’s Ryan Heitschmidt, a junior at WTAMU, is a member of the team and ranked fourth overall, first in placings, second in beef judging and fourth in lamb judging.

    West Texas A&M University’s meat judging team brought home a major national victory after competing at the American Royal Meat Judging contest held on Oct. 15 in Omaha, Nebraska.

    The team’s score of 4,237 is the highest in WTAMU history and was 30 points higher than the team’s closest competitor, Oklahoma State University.

    Texas Tech University, Kansas State University and Texas A&M Universi…