CASPER, Wyo. (June 17, 2022) – The third round of the 2022 College National Finals Rodeo (CNFR) wrapped up Friday night at the Ford Wyoming Center in Casper, setting the stage for Saturday’s Championship Finals. The top 12 fastest times and highest scores over the first three rounds qualified for Saturday night’s finals.
The competition began with bareback riding. Lane McGehee, who won the national title in this event as a freshman in 2017, rode Vold Rodeo’s bucking horse Classic Frontier for 81.5 points. That put the Sam Houston State University graduate student second in round three. He is just one and a half points behind Cole Franks in the overall standings. Franks is the reigning bareback riding and all-around champion who competes for Missouri Valley College. Only six points separate the top five bareback riders as the final round begins.
In breakaway roping Bryana Lehrmann, a graduate student in accounting at Texas A & M – Commerce clocked the fastest time of the night – 2.2 seconds. That tied her for fourth in the round. Her total of 6.6 seconds on three calves moved her into the overall lead by half a second. She is also one of two women who can win the all-around title.
McNeese State University heads into Championship Saturday holding the top two spots in saddle bronc riding. Shea Fournier held the lead when the night began, but his teammate Ryder Sanford overtook him after a 73.5-point ride on Triple V Rodeo’s horse Swan Lake. Sanford, a senior engineering major, had won the first two rounds and slipped past Fournier by two and a half points.
The goat tying competition was fierce. The second competitor – Sierra Spratt of Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo – set the pace with 6.6 seconds. She tied for the overall lead with her teammate Aimee Davis. Mersadie Martin, who competes for Sam Houston State University, had been the only cowgirl to clock a time under six seconds this week. Martin, a senior animal science major, won the first round with a time of 5.7 seconds. After a respectable but unspectacular 7.0 in round two, she came back in round three with the week’s second time under six seconds, winning the round with 5.9 and edging the Cal Poly contingent by one-tenth of a second.
Brothers Kellan and Carson Johnson of Casper College are crowd favorites at the Ford Wyoming Center. Not only are they local boys whose father is the college rodeo coach, but they are the reigning team roping champions at the CNFR. They brought the crowd to their feet with a time of 5 seconds which put them second in the round and second overall. They will have a chance to win a rare repeat title Saturday night.
Texas A & M’s Victoria Proctor was only able to place ninth in round three of barrel racing with her 14.34-second run. The junior ag business major had finished fourth in the first two rounds and her total time of 43.06 puts her second heading into the finals.
National championships in nine individual events along with the men’s and women’s all-around and team titles will be awarded following the Championship Saturday competition which begins at 7 p.m.
CASPER, Wyo.—The following are results after the fourth performance at the College National Finals Rodeo, June 17, 2022, courtesy of the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association. Complete results are available at www.collegerodeo.com.
Bareback riding: (third round) 1, Kelby Schneiter, Western Texas College, 82 points. 2, Lane McGehee, Sam Houston State University, 81.5. 3, Weston Patterson, Clarendon College, 79. 4, Dean Thompson, Western Texas College, 79. 5, (tie) Darien Johnson, College of Southern Idaho, and Kolt Dement, Panola College, 76.5. each 7, (tie) Ty Pope, Missouri Valley College, and Guage McBride, Panola College, 74.5 each. (total on three) 1, Cole Franks, Missouri Valley College, 236. 2, McGehee, 234.5. 3, Pope, 233.5. 4, Griffin, 231. 5, Thompson, 230. 5, Myles Carlson, Casper, College, 223.5. 7, McBride, 222. 8, Dement, 221.5. 9, Denton Jacobson, Fort Scott Community College, 220.5. 10, Bradlee Miller, Sam Houston State University, 218.5. 11, Brice Patterson, University of Wyoming, 216. 12, Cooper Cooke, Western Texas College, 214.5.
Tie-Down Roping: (third round) 1, Chance Thiessen, Weatherford College, 7.3 seconds. 2, Chadron Coffield, University of Wyoming, 8.3. 3, Linkyn Petersek, Casper College, 8.4. 4, Kase Bacque, Sam Houston State University, 8.6. 5, Cole Dodds, California State University – Fresno, 9.0. 6, Zane Taylor, Treasure Valley Community College, 9.5. 7, (tie) Kincade Henry, Panola College, and Tanner Brown, East Mississippi Community College, 9.7 each. (total on three) 1, Henry, 29.1. 2, Petersek, 30.9. 3, Brayden Roe, Tarleton State University, 31.7. 4, Cody Stewart, Feather River College, 32.2. 5, Trevor Hale, Cisco College, 32.6. 6, Bacque, 33.2. 7, Macon Murphy, Panola College, 33.7. 8, Scott Halverson, Iowa Central Community College, 35.0. 9, Marley Berger, Southwestern Oklahoma State University, 35.7. 10 Cole Walker, University of Tennessee – Martin, 36.1. 11, Myles Kenzy, Gillette College, 38.2. 12, Monty James, Central Arizona College, 41.0.
Breakaway Roping: (third round) 1, Kenlie Raby, Missouri Valley College, 1.7 seconds. 2, Alli Masters, Southwestern Oklahoma State University, 2.0. 3, Hannah Hughes, Southeastern Oklahoma State University, 2.1. 4, (tie) Bryana Lehrmann, Texas A & M University – Commerce; and Hayden Madsen, Laramie County Community College; and Kimberly Williams; Walla Walla Community College, 2.2 each. 7, Mikenna Schauer, University of Montana Northern, 2.3. 8, Delaney Kunau, University of Nevada – Las Vegas, 2.4. (total on three) 1, Lehrmann, 6.6. 2, Masters, 7.1. 3, Sarah Angelone, Tarleton State University, 7.3. 4, (tie) Madalyn Richards, Texas A & M University and Briena Wells, Weatherford College, 7.6. 6, (tie) Blair Bryant, East Mississippi Community College, and Schauer, 7.7. 8, Maddy Deerman, Tarleton State University, 7.8. 9, McKenna Brennan, Panhandle State University, 8.3. 10, Molly Salmond, Montana State University, 8.4. 11, Kaylee Cornia, Idaho State University, 8.6. 12, Gracely Speth, Cal Poly State University – San Luis Obispo, 8.8.
Saddle Bronc Riding: (third round) 1, Shae Fournier, McNeese State University, 80.5. 2, Karson Mebane, Cal Poly State University – San Luis Obispo, 77.5. 3, Cash Wilson, Tarleton State University, Tarleton State University, 76.5. 4, Quintin McWhorter, Cal Poly State University – San Luis Obispo, 75. 5, (tie) John Allen, Iowa Central Community College, and Ryder Sanford, McNeese State University, 73.5 each. 7, (tie) Reed Neely, California State University – Fresno and Jarrod Hammons, Hill College, 72.5 (total on three) 1, Sanford, 236.5. 2, Fournier, 234. 3, Wilson, 226.5. 4, McWhorter, 222.5. 5, Brody Wells, Tarleton State University, 221. 6, Cable Wareham, Fort Scott Community College, 212. 7, Allen, 208. 8, Sage Miller, Laramie County Community College, 207.5. 9, Luke Price, Fort Scott Community College, 198. 10, Stade Riggs, Northern Arizona University, 197. (on two) 11, Garrett Cunningham, Montana State University – Northern, 150. 12, Reed Neely, California State University – Fresno, 149.5.
Steer Wrestling: (third round) 1, Gavin Soileau, McNeese State University, 3.8 seconds. 2, Blake Betz, Blue Mountain Community College, 4.0. 3, (tie) Sterling Lee, Dickinson State University; Rooster Yazzie, Navajo Technical College; and Bryar Byrne, Feather River College, 4.6 each. 6, Walt Arnold, Tarleton State University, 4.8. 7, (tie) Jesse Keysaer, University of Tennessee – Martin, and Mason Couch, Southeastern Oklahoma State University, 4.9. (total on three) 1, Arnold, 13.2. 2, Tucker Alberts, Missouri Valley College, 13.7. 3, Souileau, 14.5. 4, Ty Allred, Tarleton State University, 18.4. 5, Hurlburt, 19.0. 6, Gus Franzen, Southeastern Oklahoma State University, 22.1. 7, Mike Nannini, Montana State University, 23.1. 8, Byrne, 24.3. 9, Couch, 24.7. 10, Garrett Shell, Feather River College, 25.2. 11, Cache Burnside, Central Arizona College, 27.0. 12, Sterling Lee, Dickinson State University, 27.1.
Goat Tying: (third round) 1, Mersadie Martin, Sam Houston State University, 5.9 seconds. 2, Aimee Davis, Cal Poly State University – San Luis Obispo, 6.0. 3, (tie) Taylour Latham, University of Wyoming, and Kamryn Duncan, McNeese State University, 6.1 seconds each. 5, Kaytlyn Miller, Texas Tech University – Lubbock, 6.2. 6, (tie) Jessi Jane Portenier, Cochise College; Emma Hodson, Weber State University; Sheyenne Anderson, Missouri Valley College; and Sierra Spratt, Cal Poly State University – San Luis Obispo; and Kodey Hoss, Weatherford College, 6.3. (total on three) 1, Martin, 18.6. 2, (tie) Davis, and Spratt, 18.7. 4, (tie) Anderson, and Duncan, 18.9. 6, Doerr, 19.0. 7, Hoss, 19.1. 8, Kristin Reaves, Weatherford College, 19.5. 9, Jaicee Bastian, Utah Valley University, 18.9. 10, (tie) Kaytlyn Miller, Texas Tech University, and Hailey Garrison, Montana State University, 19.9. 12, Wacey Day, Northeastern Junior College, 20.0.
Team Roping: (third round) 1, Bodie Mattson, Gillette College and Trae Smith, Casper College, 4.8 seconds. 2, Kellan and Carson Johnson, Casper College, 5.0. 3, Tristan Sullivan, Texas A & M University – Commerce, and Will Farris, Southwest Texas Junior College, 5.3. 4, Mason Moore, Sam Houston State University and Logan Moore, Wharton County College, 5.9. 5, (tie) Brad Moreno, Central Arizona College, and Jaken Todacheerie, Northern Pioneer College; Riley Kittle, Cisco College and Jace Helton, Weatherford, College; and Cutter Machado, Cal Poly State University – San Luis Obispo and Wyatt Hansen, West Hills College, 6.0. 8, Clay Cherry and Logan Cullen, Central Arizona College, 6.9. (total on three) 1, Moore and Moore, 18.0. 2, Johnson and Johnson, 18.5. 3, Kittle and Helton, 6.0. 4, Cherry and Cullen, 23.5. 5, Nevada Berquist and Braden Brost, Casper College, 24.9. 6, Cobie Dodds, Feather River College and Cole Dodds, California State University – Fresno, 28.2. 7, Dylan Orr and Wyatt Vankoll, Blue Mountain Community College, 28.7. 8, Will McCraw and Cole Walker, University of Tennessee – Martin, 30.0. 9, Logan Grahm and Latham Dickson, Southern Arkansas University, 35.1. 10, Moreno and Todacheenie, 38.3. 11, Trystin Hooper, West Hills College and David Stark, California State University – Fresno, 40.6. 12, (on two) J.C. Yeahquo, Western Oklahoma State University and L.J. Yeahquo, Oklahoma State University, 14.9
Barrel racing: (third round) 1, Jaylie Matthews, East Mississippi Community College, 14.13 seconds. 2, Hailey Garrison, Montana State University, 14.19. 3, (tie) Sadie Walaver, Southwestern Oklahoma State University; Ellie Bard, Gillette College; and Bryana Lehrmann, Texas A & M University – Commerce; 14.22. 6, Abby Hepper, Southwestern Oklahoma State University, 14.23. 7, Bradi Good, Weatherford College, 14.32. 8, Tayla Moeykens, Montana State University, 14.33. (total on three) 1, Wolaver, 42.72. 2, Victoria Procter, Texas A & M University, 43.06. 3, Garrison, 43.13. 4, (tie) Emma Smith, Texas A & M University, and Hepper, 43.21 each. 6, Bradi Good, Weatherford College, 43.24. 7, Bard, 43.28. 8, Taycie Matthews, East Mississippi Community College, 43.37. 9, Kenna McNeill, Oklahoma State University, 43.39. 10, Tayla Moeykens, Montana State University, 43.43. 11, Kiara Begay, University of Arizona, 43.44. 12, Shaw Nelson, South Dakota State University, 43.69.
Bull Riding: (third round – three rides) 1, Cole Skender, Three Rivers College, 84. 2, Tristen Hutchings, Sul Ross State University, 82.5. 3, Rawley Johnson, Western Texas College, 82. (total on two) 1, Hutchings, 167. 2, Skender, 159. 3, Andy Guzman, Mesalands Community College, 157.5. 4, Casey Roberts, Three Rivers College, 157. 5, Luke Parkinson, Western Texas College, 141.5. (on one) 6, Rawley Johnson, T.J. Schmidt, Panhandle State University, 78. 7, Brad Moreno, Central Arizona College, 68.5. 8, Brad Moreno, Central Arizona College, 68.5.
