Casper College

He's like, you know, the refs.

Because they had, like, Casper College dudes reffing.

And he's like, they're not calling a lot.

I'm like, here's the thing.

You're just going to go out there and play some livestock and talk reasons and beat everybody else, essentially.

What would you say, you know, and don't brag on Mr. Stanley too much here, but what would you say are some things that you've kind of gained since going to Casper College? Any new perspectives that you've learned working out with some of those other Casper College students?

Yeah, I mean, it's definitely beneficial to get different insights from different coaches, you know, and it just helps grow your knowledge of livestock, I believe.

Well, what is Mr. Stanley for you? How does your mindset change going from the state competition to a national competition? I know you're no stranger to competing in nationals here and having teams go by.

And that was what drove me to succeed.

It paved my way for a full ride scholarship to Casper College to judge livestock, and then a full ride scholarship to Texas Tech University as well to judge livestock.

So it's very unique that someone in the career technology world of education gets to do this because I've told my principals, I graduate students that may not graduate.

And so it's very neat to see just how The education system spins full circle here.

Um, so from, uh, past my 4H and FFA days, uh, did a lot of the junior livestock exhibits, things like that, um, a bunch of different associations.

Found my way to Casper College.

Uh, had Colby Burch over there as my judging coach.

Really enjoyed my time out at Casper.

Mm-hmm.

He subsequently lived in Raleigh before returning to Wyoming to attend Casper College, and his educational path was not entirely straightforward.

He changed schools, moved between communities, literally moved across the country, and spent time considering just what he wanted to do with his future.

And that is a very volatile time when you're that age.

You know, that's what I paid my bills with.

And, and so I rode a lot of colts through high school, and then we got out of high school, um, went to college for a couple of years, got an ag business degree at Casper College.

Um, I spent two years on the, uh, livestock judging team there.

So I got to travel a lot of the country, uh, doing collegiate livestock judging.

I have a very large family in Wyoming.

I went to Casper College on a livestock judging scholarship, and then I went to the University of Wyoming, where I received both my bachelor's and my law degree.

Prior to coming to Congress, I was a trial attorney for 34 years, primarily water, natural resources, and constitutional law, and, um, really how this happened was that when, uh, Liz Cheney made the decision to not represent the state of Wyoming but focus instead on some of the issues happening here in Washington, DC, I made the decision that Wyoming needed to be represented by someone who cared a lot more about Wyoming.

And so I ran against her, and I am now in my second term.

Last year was just an out-and-out disaster.

Um, but keep an eye on Nazir Washington as well, a JUCO transfer from Casper College.

Yeah.

Will be fun to watch, see if some of those lower-level teams could maybe make a jump up and surprise some people this year.

Her family were ranchers near Douglas, actually a little closer to Glen Rock on the north side of the river, just in the shadow of Dave Johnson Power Plant.

So I come to you from Wyoming, went to Casper College.

I got an associate's degree.

Given just family situations, I couldn't attend Laramie, so I went to the University of Wyoming at Casper.

And so I think going into the energy sector was natural.

You know, sort of my experience as nontraditional is University of Wyoming Casper was very new, and I think I was in like the third graduating class.

We didn't have a facility that they have on the college campus now at Casper College.

We were housed in the former children's center.