Md. Dairy Judging Members Worthy Of Competition
JOANNE E. MORVAY
Maryland Correspondent
WESTMINSTER,
Md.—What’s it like to be the
proverbial rose among the thorns?
Two young women from Car
roll County are getting a real
world lession this fall in being the
beauties among the “beasts.”
The bovines at the World Dairy
Expo in Madison don’t speak their
language and the men they’re
traveling with don’t always know
what to make of them, but Marie
Speak of Taneytown and Jessica
Fritz of New Windsor said being
the only women on Maryland’s
two top dairy judging teams is no
big deal.
When they’re in the ring cir
cling cows so they can place them,
it doesn’t matter that they’re the
lone women on their teams—and
it better not matter to their team
mates either, they said.
Marie, daughter of John and
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Bonnie Speak, is a junior at the
University of Maryland. She pre
viously was a member of the
state’s 4-H judging team and rep
resented Maryland at international
competition in Europe a few yean
ago.
Jessica, a senior at Francis Scott
Key High School, is die daughter
of Daniel and Sharon Fritz. She
represented Maryland4-H at com
petition in Louisville, Ky. last
year.
Jessica was the only woman on
that team also. She and Mark
Schnebly of Washington County
returned to this year’s Madison
team.
Though having one woman on a
team can pose dilemmas —the
expense of having one team mem
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of isolation—Dr. Lee Majeski,
Maryland’s dairy judging coach,
said he chooses his team mefnbers
according to how well they score
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Marie and Jessica have proven
themselves skilled members of
their respective teams, Majeski
said. Their status as women may
come in to play logistically, but it
does not matter in the ring, he
said.
Marie previously judged with
Mark lager in European competi
tion.
"We’ve ’been judging together
so long that it really doesn’t make
a difference” that she’s a woman,
she said, with a laugh.
The camaraderie among the
team members surpasses the dif
ferences between diem, they said
at a recent practice session.
This year, the teams have spent
mote time coaching and encourag
ing their “rookie” members, Chris
Seymour and Bobby Fogle. Both
men are new to dairy judging.
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only experience in the ring is poul
try judging—a far cry from judg
ing cows.
With competition fast upon
them—team members have no
time or interest in worrying
whether men are better judges
than women, they said.
“This is extremely important to
me. It’s the last contest we’re
going to judge in like this and
we're trying to uphold the reputa
tion of Maryland,” Marie said.
“But you can’t stress out,” cau
tioned Sean Johnson of Howard
County, speaking as much to him
self as the rest of the team.
“Because that’s when you make
mistakes,” he said.
Judging has taught each of them
to look beyond what’s close at
hand and draw from within them
selves, the team members said.
“You have to go out and do the
best you can,” said Sean.
“Without wonying about the
other team,” finished Marie.
It’s a mantra they all repeat
often.
The Maryland 4-H team placed
4th in die oral reasons contest at
Harrisburg and 9th overall. Chris
Seymour of Howard County was
first in oral reasons and 4th overall
in individual competition.
The University of Maryland
team took second place in oral rea
sons, losing fust place to Cornell
University by only two points,
according to Maryland coach
Katharine Knowlton. The team
placed sixth overall. Marie Speak
placed 4th in reasons and Sean
Johnson was seventh. Mark lager
was 12th individual overall.
Knowlton said while the perfor
mance wasn’t as high as team
members had hoped, they are pre
paring even harder for Madison.
And they're all equally confi
dent things will improve, she said.
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