814-Lancastar Farming, Saturday, August 23,1986
Preparation, Dedication An Keys To Success
For Lancaster Dairy Bond Team
Members of the Lancaster dairy bowl team, which placed first at 4-H Achievement
Days, receive congratulations from Dr. Alan Snider, assistant director for 4-H youth
programs. Team members, from left, are Joe Delong, Janice Garber, Tom McCauley
and Angie Spkkler.
BY SALLY BAm
Lancaster Co. Correspondent
LANCASTER What does it
take to have a winning team in
state 4-H competition? According
to members of Lancaster County’s
first-place dairy bowl team, it
requires long hours of preparation,
some “intense” competition, and a
dedication to getting the job done.
It’s also “a lot of fun.”
Kim Stroud, director of com
munications for Federated
Genetics who served as coach for
the four-member team, says, “It
was their dedication. I can’t take
credit for it. It was their hard
work.”
Stroud’s part in the successful
team was to get them together
once a week since mid-April and
have them work on learning the
materials they needed to know.
She credits Mike Pratt, 4-H
summer assistant, with doing a
“wonderful job” as assistant
coach. “He had experience with
the dairy bowl.” Although she has
coached the team for three years,
Stroud has yet to see an actual
contest.
She explained that contestants
need to have a basic knowledge in
all fields, but in addition to the
basic dairy information they also
need to be familiar with current
issues in the dairy industry, like
the dairy herd buyout program.
“They read current dairy
publications to get the latest facts.
Many of the more standard
questions are taken from the 4-H
heifer and cow project books.
The team began practice in April
with six 4-H’ers trying out for it.
After regional competition, where
they placed first, four members
were selected to work for the state
contest. Stroud says, “1 always
hoped they would do well because I
knew they were good and were well
prepared. But I didn’t want to get
their expectations up. We pointed
out to them that they don’t do it
just to win. The experience you get
and the people you meet are im
portant. 4-H is supposed to be a
program to help you meet kids
from all over the state.
“We stressed that they were
building their experiences and that
it would give them another
dimension. 4-H is a fabulous ex
perience,” she said.
In addition to the hard work,
Stroud says the coaches tried to
incorporate some fun into practice
times. But, she acknowledged,
“The kids have to be dedicated to
it. It is not all fun.”
It was Angie Spickler’s first trip
to Penn State on a judging team
and she said she tried out because
it was “something different, and I
thought I would meet some new
people.” Angie, 15, has been a
member of die Ayrshire, Jersey
and Brown Swiss 4-H Club for 7
years.
She said she was “really happy”
with the outcome, but admitted,
“A lot of things crossed your mind
during the contest.” They had
some confidence, however,
because, “We did a lot of studying,
and overall we knew pretty much.
We got most of it from the material
they gave us and studied it on our
own.”
Angie owns 11 4-H animals and
considered the trip to Penn State
for the state contest “really neat.”
Now she’s considering how she can
get there next year, since team
members are now ineligible to
compete in the dairy bowl contest.
Joe DeLong, 17, had the
distinction of being on a winning
team two years in a row, having
placed first in dairy judging last
year at State Days, leading the
local team which took the state
title. It was because he was
ineligible to judge in the dairy
competition that he decided to try
out for the dairy bowl team. He
was thrilled with the second win,
but says he prefers judging dairy
cows. Expressing confidence in the
preparation, he says, “I thought
we’d do well.” DeLong is a
member of the Kids And Cows 4-H
Club and owns three Holsteins in 4-
H.
Fifteen-year-old Tom McCauley
had participated in the junior dairy
bowl team, but competition is only
at the regional level. He said, “I
thought we’d do pretty good. It was
fun, but it was kind of tense.”
He said they studied together
about 10 times as a team, and
Union/Snyder FmHA
Farmers in the Union/Snyder
County area elected two new
members to the County Committee
of Farmers Home Administration
recently. A third member of the
committee was designated by
FmHA’s State Director, D. Elmer
Hawbaker.
Mary Moyer, John Snyder, and
Ray Hess, all of Union County, will
hold their office for one, two and
three years, respectively.
“I am looking forward to the
noted that the contest helps young
people become more aware of
facts about dairy animals and the
dairy industry. “I think that’s why
they have dairy bowl,” he
remarked.
like the other team members,
Tom said he was excited about the
win and is looking forward to
national competition. He has two 4-
H animals and has been a member
of the 4-H Holstein Club for six
years.
Despite the hard work, Janice
Garber, 16, seems to sum up the
feelings of the group when she
says, “It was fun. It pays off in the
end.” A member of the 4-H
Guernsey Club, Janice owns six
animals and has been in 4-H for 7
years. She traveled to State Days
two years ago with a winning
demonstration, but said she much
prefers judging.
She says, “It was the first year
at State Days for all of us on the
dairy bowl team and we had the
attitude that whatever we get we
will be happy with. We knew we
had a good team.” It was a special
thrill to come out on top. Janice
says the contest itself was fun, but
adds, “It got real intense.”
An added benefit was getting to
know the other team members
better. “We got along really well.”
She said each team member
contributed by reading articles
and coming up with 10 questions.
“We just quizzed each other each
week.”
The team now gets to participate
in national competition in
Louisville, Ky. at the North
American International Livestock
Exposition in November, an ex
perience they look forward to.
Stroud said she’d like to see an
even bigger turnout for next year’s
dairy bowl team, saying, “It will
give us more to choose from and
make a better Lancaster County
team.
chance to work with a new com
mittee that was nominated and
elected by farmers in the area.”
Mildred Turner, County Super
visor stated.
Any farmer who resides in Union
or Snyder County and can not
receive credit elsewhere may
contact the Lewisburg County
FmHA Office for information on
insured or guaranteed operating or
real estate loans'.
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