Schulenburg-Native Named

Three members of the Blinn College livestock judging team have earned All-America honors for the 202425 season.

Lane Hogan, Grant Kubala, and Owen Seidenberger were named All-Americans by the Junior College Coaches Association. Selections are based on criteria that include cumulative grade point averages and performances at national livestock judging contests.

Blinn finished the 202425 season ranked fifth nationally by livestockjudging.com. Blinn has placed in the top five for more than a decade.

Hogan, Kubala, and Seidenberger will move on to four-year universities with livestock judging scholarships in hand, Kubala and Hogan to Texas A&M University and Seidenberger to Texas Tech University.

Kubala, a native of Schulenburg in Fayette County, was familiar with Blinn through participation in the college’s livestock judging camps.

“I knew if I ever wanted to judge in college, it would be at Blinn,” he said. “This is home for me.”

“If I could start it all again, I’d do it in a heartbeat,” Kubala said.

Livestock judging is part of Blinn’s Agricultural Sciences Program, which has one of the most active extracurricular programs in the state, including the Agriculture Club, wildlife, agriculture mechanics, and horticulture.