Angelo State Wool Judging Team Wins Big at San Antonio Stock Show

SAN ANGELO, TX - The Angelo State University Agriculture Department's student Wool Judging Team brought home the gold medal from the 2025 San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo Collegiate Wool Judging Contest held Feb. 8 in San Antonio.

ASU sent two four-person teams to the contest to compete against eight other teams from Texas A&M University, Texas Tech University and West Texas A&M University. The ASU Blue Team scored 2,370 points to claim the team title over a team from Texas A&M (2,359 points) and a team from West Texas A&M (2,358 points), with the ASU Gold Team placing fourth overall (2,312 points).

Individually for the ASU Blue Team, Carter Glass, a natural resource management major from Sterling City, placed second overall out of 58 competitors. Hudson Felts, an agribusiness major from San Angelo, and Shalyn Crimm, an accounting major from San Angelo, tied for fourth place. Janna Arnold, a health science professions major from Cisco, tied for ninth place overall to lead the ASU Gold Team.

In the individual events, Felts, Glass and Arnold took the top three places in Grading. Crimm placed first in Placing while Glass tied for fifth, and Cooper Caswell, an agricultural science and leadership major from Snyder, tied for fourth. Crimm tied for seventh in Placing & Reasons. 

In the team categories, ASU finished first and third in Grading, third and fifth in Placing, fourth and seventh in Placing & Reasons, and sixth and eighth in Reasons.

Also competing for ASU were Kasey Arnold, an animal science major from Cisco; Isabella Celaya, an animal science major from San Antonio; and Riley Titsworth, an agribusiness major from Comfort.

The ASU Wool Judging Team is coached by Dr. James "Will" Dickison, associate professor of agriculture, along with student coach Cade Thomas, an animal science major from San Angelo.