Tenatious Trio Graduation Prepares for
KRIRM’s 2022 graduates are grateful & optimistic as they pursue their passion in the ranching industry
By Kindra Gordon
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n May 2022, three individuals will earn their Master’s degree from the King Ranch® Institute for Ranch Management program – joining an elite group of 47 other graduates who have earned that title over the past two decades. KRIRM’s Class of 2022 includes Scott Crozier, recipient of the Clement Family Endowed Fellowship; John Worthington, recipient of the Four Sixes Endowed Fellowship; and Ethan Young, recipient of the Tio Kleberg Endowed Fellowship. Collectively, this trio navigated their KRIRM coursework while balancing the challenges of the global pandemic, and they have emerged tenacious, grateful and optimistic to pursue their passion in the ranching industry. Ethan Young describes the experience saying, “The last year has been unique in that the program wasn’t immune to 4 King Ranch® Institute for Ranch Management | Spring 2022
the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our class got to experience remote learning, reduced class size, and travel restrictions.” But despite that, he adds, “During all of that, the program was able to showcase the ranching spirit, and that no matter how bad it gets we can’t go back and we can’t stay here, so we might as well go forward.”
Future Focused It was that can-do attitude and forward-thinking mindset that brought these three men to the KRIRM program in the first place. Young, a native of Utah where he worked at Ensign Ranches throughout his formative years, says he was fortunate to meet a handful of former KRIRM graduates while he was in college and working on ranches. Of those individuals, Young saw “how capable they were at managing,” and says, “I wanted to be able to sit at the table with them.”
