Parker County Today Magazine June 2020 | Página 119

PARKER COUNTY AG Payton Dawn Jennings Poolville High School Payton Dawn Jennings will be a senior at Poolville High School next year. She has lived in Poolville all her life. She is active from sunup to sundown, enjoying her Ag life as well as participating in sports at school. She also enjoys time with her friends and family and playing with her dogs. Payton has had her hand in showing pigs, lambs, goats and sometimes steer, and says her favorite thing is “raising the animals from babies and working with them to make them better.” However, she is not a fan of cleaning their nasty pens. For the last 10-12 years, Payton has competed in shows all over Texas, including Parker County, Fort Worth, San Antonio, San Angelo, Houston, Belton and Dallas, placing at almost every event. She has won junior showmanship two years at the county show in both steer and pig showmanship. Payton credits her older sister as someone she always looks up to in and out of the ring, and her father, who has been critical in teaching her the ins and outs of showing and teaching her everything she knows about the livestock industry. Payton is involved with the FFA, plays basketball, volleyball, cross country and track and she volunteered with a local vet the first weekend of every month at a horse sale. Payton hopes to earn an athletic scholarship for college but she has a plan B if that doesn’t work out. She said, “ If I do not receive a scholarship I will attend Weatherford College for my basics and go from there! I want to study education and someday become an elementary school teacher!” Payton shared her most memorable moment in the ring, “When I was about 7-8 years old I had a goat that hated me and during the show it decided to run away but I decided not to let go and was drug around the entire ring while everyone screamed, ‘LET GO!’ My mom always told me if one tried to get away, ‘DON’T LET GO,’ and I didn’t!” SPONSOREd BY FOR ALL YOUR FARM & RANCH, COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE NEEDS JIM MARTIN 817-538-6846 [email protected] Specializing in Parker County Commercial Real Estate JUNE 2020 PARKER COUNTY TODAY 117