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BY JULIANNA WASHBURN
The categories for 202425 for the National High School BBQ Association included grilled cheese.
Students learn re safety and management, meat trimming, marinating, knife skills and cooking methods while on the team.
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TMHS Rolling Blue BBQ team cooks up state win
Members of Tomball Memorial High School’s Rolling Blue BBQ competitive team prepare a dish.
around a camp re while camping,” TMHS fresh- man Tristan Kerrick said. On the menu The categories for 2024-25 for the National High School BBQ Association were grilled cheese, chili, ribeye steak, chicken lollipops and St. Louis ribs. “We spent time playing around with dierent avor pro les for each of these items and it was cool to watch the students discuss which ingredi- ents paired well with one another,” Richey said. Looking forward The 2025-26 menu was posted by the National High School BBQ Association on Aug. 31, and the team will hold tryouts in September.
Tomball Memorial High School’s Rolling Blue BBQ competitive team, which began in the 2024-25 school year, combines culinary arts and agriculture for students passionate about grilling. Respecting the craft In its rst year, the seven-member team competed in a regional and state competition and placed rst in Texas for their jalapeno bacon jam grilled cheese. Team advisor Ashley Richey said the team was awake at 4 a.m. for the state com- petition, lighting res to cook at 5 a.m. and pulled into the TMHS parking lot at 10 p.m. afterward. “My favorite memories from [the barbecue team] were all of our practices and everyone being together. It felt like we were brothers, cooking
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