Tommy Norman didn’t have a lot of experience before he became the SDSU Livestock Judging team’s coach, but the former assistant coach thinks he’s the right man for the job. When Brady Jensen announced that he would be leaving SDSU, Norman, a former SDSU undergraduate and current SDSU graduate, found the moment bittersweet and was.
Livestock judging is a more than a century-old competition that remains alive and well in South Dakota. And South Dakota State University collegiate livestock judges work to prepare the next generation through a livestock judging camp held each summer on the campus of SDSU in Brookings.