This year's contest was held at the Whitney Point High School in Broome County on Saturday, March 4th. A total of 17 teams within the 9 county district competed. Cortland County Cooperative Extension, parents, volunteers and coaches would like to share the accomplishment s of our 4-Hers with you.
The process of the contest is for the youth to identify many types of tack and equipment used with horses. To identify and determine the best feeds and nutritional rations a horse should eat depending on the conditions and stresses. They also had to identify horse breeds, countries of origin, answer a variety of questions regarding the horse industry, along with judging a group of horses from a video based on their best and worst conformation qualities. The senior team needs to solve a team problem, and represent their team by answering it in a very committed and convincing way to an official judge.
4-Her's from Locke, Groton, McGraw, Cincinnatus, N.Pitcher, Georgetown, Homer, Truxton, Marathon and Cortland have been meeting weekly with dedicated coaches and parent volunteers for the past 9-weeks preparing for this event in Cortland County. The groups did an awesome job and the outcome was so exciting. Congratulations to our 4-H'ers! (This group of 4-H'ers will be competing again on March 18th for the Regional Quiz Bowl contest that will be held at the Chenango Forks School).
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DIVISION
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TEAM
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PLACEMENT
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Novice Teams Coaches: Nancy Hart & Brianna Petracca |
Cortland
Novice (A) Team
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1st
Place Team Award
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Cheyenne
Mitchell
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2nd
Place Individual
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Carly
Dove
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3rd
Place Individual
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Samanatha
Crandall
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4th
Place Individual
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Kira
McMahon
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5th
Place Individual
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Cortland
Novice (B) Team
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2nd
Place Team Award
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Kerri
Jones
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6th
Place Individual
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Travis
Brown
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7th
Place Individual
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Junior Teams Coaches: Jackie Hartnett & Nancy Gardner |
Cortland
Junior (A) Team
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3rd
Place Team Award
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Sarah
Henry
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4th
Place Individual
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Quentin
Bartholomew
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10th
Place Individual
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Cortland
Junior (B) Team
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5th
Place Team Honors
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Gavin Gates, Brian Etz and Matt VanHueson
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Senior Teams Coach: Kelly Smith |
Cortland
Senior (A) Team
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1st
Place Team Award
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Jordan
Brown
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1st
Place Individual
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Linsey
Etz
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2nd
Place Individual
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Mitchell
Smith
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3rd
Place
Individual
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Leah
Sheldon
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4th
Place
Individual
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Cortland/Delaware
Senior (B) Team
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5th
Place Team Honors
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Colby Smith, Stephanie Hartnett and 3 Delaware
County4-H'ers
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NOVICE DIVISION: Coaches Nancy Hart and Brianna Petracca are so thrilled, this is a first in competition for these 4-H'ers and they stepped up to the competition in grace and style.
JUNIOR DIVISION: Coaches Jackie Hartnett and Nancy Gardner prepared their 4-Her's for competition; the focus is more specific in terms, anatomy and technical answers for the competition.
SENIOR TEAMS: Seniors are at the highest-level and focus on the horse and it's industry. Coach Kelly Smith reinforces and sharpens their knowledge of the horse industry and judging skills.
Cortland County Youths Representing Region 4 Horse @ NYS Fair on August 17, 2006 in the Junior Division will be Sarah Henry and Quentin Bartholomew. Members Jordan Brown, Linsey Etz, Mitchell Smith and Leah Sheldon will represent the Regional Senior Team #1.
A special thank you to our coaches and dedicated parents who help during the practices, and at the contests, Dave Etz, Lisa Mitchell, Brianna Petracca, Nancy Hart, Nancy Gardner, Sharlene Boyden and Kelly Smith.