On a chilly January morning at the 2025 National Western Stock Show (NWSS) in Denver, students ages 8–18 quietly paraded their sheep into the arena. Middle schoolers in jeans and turquoise-studded belts muscled ewes into position before a judge. A youth in cowboy boots stood nearly as tall as the head of her animal, her hand guiding her sheep’s nose upward. Students had come to compete from as far away as Wyoming, Kansas, and southwestern Colorado—and perhaps unexpectedly, from as near as the neighborhoods of Central Park and Park Hill. Read Full Story Here:

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