Alternate Student Delegate Selected for AASV Board

January 6, 2021 — Abbey Canon

The AASV Student Recruitment Committee is pleased to announce the selection of Sydney Simmons, a second-year veterinary student at North Carolina State University, as the incoming Alternate Student Delegate to the AASV Board of Directors.

A native of North Carolina, Sydney recognized her excitement for swine production and animal agriculture early on. Her very first summer job as a sow farm employee encouraged her to seek more opportunities in swine production. She spent another summer in a rotating internship touring feed mills, visiting diagnostic laboratories, and spending time at a boar stud. During that internship, Sydney worked directly under swine veterinarians and alongside a first-year veterinary student intern.

Sydney's previous experiences, including the time she spent with swine veterinarian mentors, convinced her to pursue a career in swine veterinary medicine. After her first year of veterinary school, Sydney participated in the Swine Veterinary Internship Program as an intern at the Swine Vet Center in St. Peter, Minnesota. She will present her research in electrostatic fogging methods in the AASV Student Poster Competition at the 2021 AASV Annual Meeting.

No stranger to AASV leadership, Sydney has served as the NCSU Student Chapter of the AASV first-year representative and the swine wet-lab coordinator. She anticipates career-long participation in the AASV.

Sydney is driven by a passion to educate consumers to colleagues and a life-long dedication to animal agriculture. She is eager to engage with AASV member students and veterinarians as Alternate Student Delegate.

Enthusiastically, Sydney said, "I am very excited for the opportunity to work with the AASV for the next two years. I am eager to meet and work alongside so many other students, veterinarians, and future colleagues!"

Simmons will assume her duties as Alternate Student Delegate during the 2021 AASV Annual Meeting. The current alternate delegate, Amanda Anderson (Iowa State, 2022), will assume the delegate position currently held by Jamie Madigan (NCSU, 2021), who will rotate off the board. Sydney and Amanda will represent student interests within AASV as non-voting members of the Board of Directors and the Student Recruitment Committee. Please join us in welcoming Sydney to the AASV Board of Directors and thanking Jamie for her service!

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Abbey Canon is the AASV Director of Public Health and Communications