Team 10 Wins the 2023 AjPHA Youth Team Tournament

By Julie Papaj

Courtesy APHA.com

Team 10 brought home the win at this year’s annual AjPHA Youth Team Tournament, which took place on June 23 on the precipice of the 2023 APHA World Show.

The new-and-improved tournament attracted 105 Youth participants from across the country. Participants were divided into 18 teams who faced off in events such as the Knowledge Relay and Video Challenge.

This year’s Youth Team Tournament was designed to encourage all Paint-loving Youth to participate, centering around a variety of fun, nohorse-required activities. “We wanted to provide a way for all Youth—whether they are AjPHA Youth members or not, have a horse or not, or are showing at the World Show—to have the opportunity to come to this event, enjoy themselves and meet other Youth from across the country,” said APHA President-Elect Kelly Chapman, The Top Six point-earning teams faced off in a thrilling, surprise relay-race finale, in which members from each team sped across the arena on donkeys. After much bucking, braying and runaway-rides, Team 10 cinched their victory. from page 58

Congratulations to the 2023 Youth Team Tournament winners: Youth Team Tournament Team 10, Champion Team Overall –Team 10. Reagan Strange, Izzy Hostetler, Lainey Knight, Brianna Massie, Peytyn Goodin, and Brady Hattan.

Vet Crisis

“This emerging emergency and critical care team model will be staffed by clinicians who enjoy the challenges of emergency medicine and will dramatically reduce on-call hours currently required of our internal medicine and surgery clinicians. Moreover, this model will allow our highly trained professionals the opportunity to focus on their specialty areas,” said Erskine. “Our goal is to implement this model without increasing costs to our clients”.

A generous anonymous donor – who understands the challenges faced by an equine emergency referral hospital –has committed $1.5M in funding to support the majority of costs associated with the start-up of the new service for the initial three years. It is estimated that by year four, hospital operations will fully support the service.

If this dynamic emergency service model proves successful, it may be implemented by other equine referral hospitals, thereby encouraging equine veterinarians to continue the work they love in their chosen field of expertise. Meanwhile, Erskine will continue to help lead the exploration of how to solve the problems at a national level.

“The sub-committee is already identifying various emergency coverage models that have emerged and will be providing information to AAEP members about these models and how they