Students, joined by faculty and staff from the Dick and Mary Lewis Kleberg College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Human Sciences at Texas A&M University-Kingsville, will put away the books, put down their pencils and leave the test tubes in the lab for a little good clean fun.

Well, maybe not so clean.

The third annual Ag Olympics will be held beginning at 5 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 17, at the university’s rodeo arena located on FM 1355 (Armstrong Street) north of the main campus.

Hot dogs will be served at 5 p.m. followed by the Olympic Procession of teams at 5:30 p.m. Competition begins at 6 p.m.

Each team will consist of at least six members and include one faculty or staff member, and will compete in nine events ranging from more traditional sounding events like Wheelbarrow Racing to the more intense Extreme Egg Toss.

The Cow Patty Discus Throw is pretty selfexplanatory, but the Wheelbarrow Race is not the traditional event.

A real wheelbarrow will be used with one person riding and one person pushing.

Following the barrel racing pattern, the pair must stop at the first barrel, where the person inside the wheelbarrow gets out, the person pushing gets in and a third person takes over the pushing.

This continues until the entire pattern is complete.

If you think your teenage daughter takes a long time to get dressed, check out the Goat to the Prom Race.

The goat is not only dressed, but also accessorized by teams before the heat is over.

In the Extreme Egg Toss, students send eggs flying with the help of an elastic band launcher while their teammates attempt to catch the messy projectiles in plastic storage containers.

There is no real talent needed for the 75-yard Hay Bale Race, only muscle.

Teams have to role a large round hay bale down the 75- yard course.

To make matters worse, the normally heavy bales got wet during recent rains, making them even heavier.