BLUEBONNET LINE WORKERS AT INTERNATIONAL LINEMAN’S RODEO

  

Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative lineworkers demonstrated their skill, agility and knowledge during the International Lineman’s Rodeo in Kansas City earlier this month.

Bluebonnet’s rodeo team scored two top 10 finishes in the apprentice overall competition, and the journeyman team was top 10 among cooperatives and top 50 overall.

This year’s rodeo team consisted of one three-man journeyman team, four apprentices, three coaches and four event judges.

Bluebonnet’s General Manager Matt Bentke said they are proud of everyone on Bluebonnet’s rodeo team and recognize the time, energy and effort they put into this event, and bring to their job each and every day.

Lane Magnuson, fourth-year apprentice in the Giddings service center, finished third overall and third in the cooperative division. Magnuson had a perfect score in the field events and a 93 on the written test.

Kevin Christ, fourth-year apprentice in the Brenham service center, finished seventh overall and fifth in the cooperative division. Christ had only two deductions in the field events and scored a 94 on the written test.

Carter Brymer, fourth-year apprentice in Giddings, finished in the top 25 in the cooperative division.

Tucker Saegert, fourth-year apprentice in Bastrop, finished in the top 50 in the cooperative division. Bluebonnet’s apprentices competed against 389 apprentices in the overall competition and 84 in the cooperative division.

Bluebonnet’s journeyman team of Michael Guajardo, David Martin and Kenneth Roush, who work in Bluebonnet’s Bastrop service center, achieved a perfect score in the field events. They finished ninth among 46 teams in the cooperative division and 47th overall among 285 teams.