GCCC Meat Judging

05/14/2026

Summer Meat Judging Camp at GCCC. Reach out with any questions or share with your friends!

05/10/2026

Congrats to these Meathead Graduates from GCCC on Friday. Emily Dryden was named as the Most Outstanding Technical Student this year. Proud coaches; we can’t wait to see where each of you go next!

03/09/2026

2026 Houston Reserve Champions

Team:
🥈2nd Overall
🥇1st Placings
🥈2nd Lamb Judging
🥈2nd Beef Judging
🥈2nd Total Beef
🥉3rd (tied for 2nd) Questions
🥉3rd Beef Grading
🥉3rd Pork Judging

Individuals:
Grady Gleason
3rd Overall
1st Placings
2nd Pork Judging
2nd (tied for 1st) Questions
4th Lamb Judging
4th Beef Judging

Remi Laib
5th Overall
6th Questions
6th Beef Judging

Braden Hoskinson
6th Overall
3rd Placings
8th Lamb Judging

Jenera Ardery-9th Pork Judging, 11th Beef Grading

Konar Brungardt-6th Placings, 6th Lamb Judging

Sebastian Castillo-4th Placings

Lizzy MacWhinnie-7th Pork Judging

Raegan Mattke-7th Placings, 9th Lamb Judging

Thomas Peters

Team concludes the spring as the most consistent team in the division. We are very proud of their hard work since August and look forward to the fall of 2026!

03/08/2026

After a long week of many miles and the contest today (plus just a ton of hours this year), the team is getting to enjoy Rodeo Houston with Dwight Yoakum.

02/17/2026

2026 South Plains Contest Results:

3rd Overall Team (5th highest score in GCCC History)
1st Questions
1st Lamb Judging
2nd Pork Judging
3rd Placings
4th Beef Grading
4th Beef Judging
4th Total Beef

Individuals:
Remi Laib
3rd Overall Individual
1st Questions (235/250)
2nd Pork Judging
3rd Lamb Judging
6th Beef Judging
7th Total Beef
8th Placings

Grady Gleason
8th Overall Individual
4th Beef Grading
8th Lamb Judging
8th Total Beef

Braden Hoskinson
16th Overall Individual
5th Lamb Judging
6th Placings

Konar Brungardt
18th Overall Individual
9th Lamb Judging

Alternates:
Sebastian Castillo - 6th High Alternate
Jenera Ardery -11th High Alternate
Lizzy MacWhinnie - 13th High Alternate
Thomas Peters - 14th High Alternate
Grant Mendenhall - 17th High Alternate
Raegan Mattke - 19th High Alternate

Massive thanks to Tyson Fresh Meats in Amarillo (Jaden Boren and Casey Trimble), West Texas A&M University (workout), and Caviness Beef Packers (contest) for a great time in Texas. We'll be back and at it on March 7th for Houston!

Definitely proud of our alumni doing great things for their universities:

Aaron Morales - Texas Tech University - high individual overall in the contest (1st reasons, 2nd specs, 3rd grading, 3rd pork judging, 4th lamb judging). His team was Champions overall.

Jean Cu***ng - West Texas A&M University - 9th high individual overall in contest. Her team was Reserve Champions in the contest.

02/02/2026

RESERVE CHAMPIONS SOUTHWESTERN

🥈2nd place team overall
🥇1st Lamb Judging
🥇1st Questions
🥈2nd Beef Grading
🥈2nd Total Beef
3rd Beef Judging
4th Pork Judging

Individuals: Grady Gleason tied for high individual overall (lost tie-breaker). He set a new all-time Beef Grading individual record for GCCC at 272 points. Grady was 2nd high overall individual, 1st in Beef Grading, 1st in Total Beef, 2nd in Beef Judging and 4th in Questions.

Remi Laib:
9th Overall
3rd Lamb Judging

Braden Hoskinson
14th overall
3rd Pork Judging

Konar Brungardt
18th overall
4th Lamb Judging

Alternates:
Lizzy MacWhinnie-3rd overall
Sebastian Castillo-9th overall
Jenera Ardery-11th overall
Grant Mendenhall-14th overall
Thomas Peters-15th overall

Very close to high team as only 23 points was between us and EOSC. 54 points from 2nd to 3rd. We get back at it in 12 days st the South Plains in Hereford. TX on February 14th.

01/20/2026

2026 National Western Results:
Team:
4th Overall
2nd Beef Grading
4th Lamb Judging and Total Beef
5th in Placings and Questions

Individuals:
Grady Gleason (Garden City) was 3rd overall ranking 2nd in Beef Grading and Lamb Judging; 6th in Placings.
Remi Laib (Mercer, ND) was 6th overall ranking 4th in Total Beef, 6th in Beef Grading and 7th in Questions
Braden Hoskinson (Satanta) was 25th overall placing 7th in Pork Judging.
Konar Brungardt (Holcomb) was 30th overall.

Alternates:
Thomas Peters (Lakin) was 11th overall
Jenera Ardery (Holcomb) was 12th overall
Sebastian Castillo (Garden City) was 14th overall
Lizzy MacWhinnie (Pierceville) was 15th overall
Raegan Mattke (Quinter) was 21st overall

We want to give a shout out to two of our alumni that crushed it at the contest. Jean Cu***ng (West Texas A&M) was 1st high individual in the alternates contest and Aaron Morales (Texas Tech University) was 4th high alternate overall. We look forward to watching their individual (and team) battles through 2026!

Next up, Fort Worth Stock Show Contest on Sunday, February 1st in Ennis, TX.

01/18/2026

We were happy to host OSU Meat Judging in our meat lab last week. Hope it was a great workout for you.

Lots of grading! Thanks Dodge City National and Finney Co. Tyson.
Also thanks to GCCC for the workout. On our way to the National Western - 22 team members!

01/18/2026

We were glad to host you last week. Hope you had a great workout!

01/18/2026

Thanks for stopping by to the Buffs! Hope you had a great workout. Glad that Jean is a part of your team!