New Judging Apprentices AnnouncedIt is the Boards pleasure to announce that after a rigorous selection process, the AAA has six new apprentices who will soon start their journey to become Australian alpaca judges. The new apprentices (in alphabetical order) are:
The Board acknowledges and thanks the outgoing Showing and Judging Committee for its hard work putting together and running the two judge intake weekends in June and September. This has been a huge undertaking which has identified excellent candidates to progress into this apprentice judge program. The original candidate pool consisted of 24 applicants and unfortunately not all have been successful. However we would like to express sincere thanks to all applicants who invested heavily in the selection process and made themselves available for consideration. We hope you have had the opportunity to learn along this journey. The outgoing Showing and Judging Committee complete their tenure today and the new SJC begins the task of not only ensuring the progression of these new apprentices but all the other showing and judging related tasks to keep progressing this area of our industry. I would like to welcome the new SJC - Michelle Malt (Chair), Cathy Reid (Secretary), Lyn Dickson, Tara Ravenhill and Diana Rutter who will work alongside Board Directors Rochelle Veitch and Trevor Parry. Once again, thank you to the applicants, the members of the Showing and Judging fraternity and our wonderful volunteers who assisted along this exercise. Thank you also to the training judges for their specialist knowledge. A very special thanks also goes to the hosts of the two intake weekends - Julie and Russell from Baarrooka and Chris and Adrienne from Ambersun. Congratulations to our new apprentices. The Board and all members look forward to seeing you in the show ring next year learning your craft under the guidance of our great pool of established judges. Andrew Munn, AAA President |