Straid Young Farmers celebrate club’s success

Adrianna Coulter won club leader of the year after a series or county and country interviews and the club also won the prize for the most 14-18 year olds participating in competitions out of all clubs in Northern Ireland.To continue talking about Adrianna Coulter, she participated in the Blue Jean Country Queen festival at the start of June this year.At the Balmoral Show, Straid YFC had a senior boys’ team play in the final of the football competition and member Andrew Rea won the advanced young farmer sheep shearing competition. Away from young farmer competitions another member Felicity McConnell won the Race Horse to Riding Horse competition.On Saturday, May 27th Straid held their annual barbecue. It was a great success with hundreds of people turning up and and enjoying the music of DJ Ryan Millar.

The barbecue really brings the club together with past and present members all working so hard behind the scenes to ensure the event runs as smoothly as possible.With the return of sports nights Straid YFC members have been playing football and doing tug of war for the last few months with a team at sports night so far.The junior girls played hockey at the Ballymena Show and two junior teams and one senior team played at the tag rugby heats in Dromore. The senior team won all of their matches.Meanwhile, Straid YFC member Andrew Rea travelled to the Highland Show recently.

He did fantastically well coming second in the senior final competing against shearers from many countries.