12 Mar 2014
Maitland District Agriculture Show 2014
Brisbane Water Secondary College Agriculture Department is off to a winning start for 2014.
Preparation for the coming show season started last year and continued throughout the holidays and when school resumed.
Students have been busy training and preparing cattle for the Maitland Agricultural Show on Friday 14th February.
At least one hundred and sixty students participated from several schools in the hunter and central coast regions with at least thirty head of cattle.
BWSC was represented by 18 students and 4 show cattle.
The school's envious performance record was maintained achieving 1stand 2ndin the lightweight class and 1st and 4th in the heavyweight class.
The light weight steer proceeded to win the overall champion steer of the show.
Maitland Show Judge Mr Travis Worth with Kiara Leoni parading the overall champion of the show bred by Mr and Mrs Kelleher
Allana Norris parading the First Place Heavy weight and runner up of the show bred by Mr and Mrs Alcorn
Brisbane Water Secondary College Show Cattle competing at Maitland Agricultural Show
Other achievements on the day include several students placing in a strong field in the Paraders competition. Results are:
Adam Gowrie 2ndIsaac Jones 5thin the 13 year old class
Keely Tribemorgan 3rdand Jake Barrett Highly Commended in the 14 year old class
Luke Brookes 3rdin the 15 year old class
Allana Norris qualified to represent the school at Sydney Royal Easter Show.
Luke Brookes placed third in the Intermediate Junior Judging.
Adam Gowrie and Keely Tribemorgan placing in the Paraders Competition.
Students and staff are busy preparing for the Canberra Royal Agricultural Show in late February followed by Sydney Royal Easter Show in April.
Luke Brookes places in Junior Judging 
Denver Kennedy competing in the Parading Competition
Brisbane Water Secondary College would like to extend their sincere thanks to Mr and Mrs Greg and Leoni Ball who have organised the cattle clinic at Maitland Show for many years. The Balls continue to invest their expertise, support and time throughout the year in order to provide excellent educational opportunities for youth in Agriculture from regional to national level.