Venimus, Vidimus, Nos Victi. We Came, We Saw, We Conquered.

Judging Team

Lakeland judges judging Westie's

On October 13, the Lakeland judging team left for Saskatoon to compete in the U of S Judging Competition. Kate Dinwoodie, Christina Hager, Shelby Crick, Luke Wrubleski, and Megan Kemp, Seamus Good, Katie Williams, JoriekeVennik, Jillian Overby, Gail Verlysen, Raelene Mollenback  and coach Lorraine Serhienko all participated in the event.  The team stayed at the Super 8 in Saskatoon on Thursday evening in preparation for the judging competition on Friday.

At the competition the team judged Westie dogs, beef bulls, beef heifers, horses, pumpkins, rations, and identified plants from western Canada. Megan Kemp took first overall individual judge, with Reylene Mollenback taking second and Christina Hager taking third. Lakeland also took first and second in the team competition, as well as winning a number of the class competitions.



Megan Kemp, Raylene Mollenback and Christina Hager showing off their hardware



The Lakeland Judging Team

Friday evening they went to a local pasta restaurant with amazing pasta, before heading out the biggest university party in Saskatchewan, Ag Bag Drag! The next morning the judging team headed back west for Vermilion, some in better shape than others, and all happy to have done great at the competition.

  

Rowing Team

The Lakeland Rustler's Rowing Team in Burnaby

The Lakeland College Rustlers rowing team sent a ladies 8+ team and a mens 4+ team to Burnaby, BC, for their final competition of the season; the Western Canadian University Rowing Championships on October 23rd. 

The ladies 8+ rowing team comprised of Amy Smith, Michelle Blanchette, Nicole Mark, Danielle Walker, Lindsay Stanko, Kat Wiggans, Calla Martin, Laura Schmale and Dawn Rosset placed 2nd in their 1000m race. The men’s 4+ team comprised of Richard Ellens, Brian Huisman, Ryan Lutz and Curtis Ross placed 4th in their 2000m race.

The Mens 4+ team

 The Rustler's impressed the other team’s coaches as the Lakeland students have only been rowing since the beginning of September and were competing against students from universities who have been rowing for up to six years. Rowing Coach Peter Walsh is very proud of his team and says that they did a great job representing Lakeland College and putting our school on the map.