Temple High School senior Tyler Sebek has a spotted pig named Stripe.
Tyler recently recovered from an emergency appendectomy Feb. 27, but that didn’t stop him from competing with his 6-month-old female swine in the Houston Livestock Show on Thursday, less than a week after his procedure.
“I was kind of nervous because I didn’t want anything to go bad,” he said. “But I was still excited because it is your last show in high school and I wanted to go out with a bang.”
Tyler was the only Temple FFA student who competed in Houston and came up big in the junior show, placing first out of 15 in the spotted gilt class. He received a Blue Rosette ribbon and a trophy.