Meet the Member Rylan Wildeman
story by Linsday Humphrey Making the decision to commit to rodeo as a high school sophomore has forever changed Rylan Wildeman’s life for the better. […]
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Kayla Olson went into the KHSRA state finals leading the barrel racing and pole bending, ready to defend her 2015 KHSRA Pole Bending Champion title. The 18-year-old senior from Coldwater, Kan., competes in all of the girls rodeo events in high school, also holding cards with the CPRA and KPRA. She names team roping as her favorite event, heading for her partner, Cheyenne Larson. “I get more excited to team rope than anything else!” she says. “When I first started roping, I hated it because I never caught, so I quit and didn’t breakaway rope again until I was a freshman. But when I picked up team roping as a junior, I picked it up easy. I also love the cutting. My mom cut in high school, but I was focused on being a barrel racer for years. Once I got that down, I started cutting, and it’s so much fun, I wish I’d started sooner!”
Kayla’s decision to rodeo was a natural fit with her family’s ranching lifestyle. She was riding as soon as she could walk, and before that, she shared the saddle with her mom, going out with her parents to work on her grandpa’s ranch. “I grew up doing rodeo, so it’s who I am,” Kayla explains. “I really enjoy the competition, and it gives you a rush that you don’t get with other sports. And no one is forcing me to rodeo – I do it of my own choice, and I get the credit for it.” Yet she also credits her parents, Tim and Terri, with her success. “They take me everywhere and do what they can to allow me to rodeo. I want to thank my aunts and uncles for helping me grow as a rider and competitor, and I also look up to Marc and Kim Harland. They own the horse I run barrels and poles on, Annie. Marc came up to me at a junior rodeo and asked if I needed a horse to ride, and I’ve been riding Annie since I was a freshman. It’s been a blessing to have a horse as nice as her.”
In addition to Annie, Kayla rides Tuffy, a breakaway roping horse given to Kayla by her aunt Megan. She team ropes off a variety of horses, most recently using her brother’s horse, Eddie, and tying goats off Marc’s horse, Pepper. “My cutting horse, Peach, is owned by Cleon Parkins, and he helps me out and hauls her to the close rodeos for me,” says Kayla. “Annie lives in Buffalo, Oklahoma, so the Harlands either haul her for me when their kids have junior high rodeos, or she stays with me. I’m very blessed to have people that are willing to help me in any way possible, and I hope someday that I will have a horse like these ones that I can let someone ride.”
Kayla graduated from South Central High School in May, where she ran track and cross country, and served as a founding officer of her local FFA chapter. She recently served as a Southwest District FFA officer, and this year, she got her FFA state degree, and won her state proficiency in equine science through rodeo, also winning at the district and chapter levels. She’s using her summer break to work on her grandfather’s ranch with her older brother, Robert, who is a senior this fall at Northwestern Oklahoma State University. He tie-down roped in high school, and continues to team rope in the USTRC.
Prior to starting school this fall at Southwestern Oklahoma State University, Kayla is competing in the NHSFR, and hopes to compete on the SWOSU team on her mare, Grace. “She’s out of Frenchmans Guy, and I’m just now getting her trained, so I hope to do college rodeo on her my second semester,” says Kayla. “I’m majoring in Pharmacy, so I plan to rodeo my first two years of school and then focus on my career. I think it’s very important to focus on the bigger picture, and I can rodeo forever!”
story by Linsday Humphrey Making the decision to commit to rodeo as a high school sophomore has forever changed Rylan Wildeman’s life for the better. […]
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September 27, 2020
BAREBACK RIDING
1 Bryce Eck 68.50
2 Robert Walter 34.00
3 Kacen Smith 26.50
4 Matthew Morrell 18.00
5 Rhett Robbins 10.00
6 Bobby Davis 8.00
BARREL RACING
1 Kiley Slavin 63.00
2 Bella Sauvage 39.00
3 Kate Perschbacher 36.00
4 Prairie Rose Robbins 29.00
5 Aubryn Garriott 28.00
6 Natalie Kinderknecht 25.00
7 Ally Brennaman 24.00
8 Libby Berger 24.00
9 Kennedy Gibbs 24.00
10 Shayla Dees 20.00
BOYS CUTTING
1 Jd Robson 20.00
2 Bobby Davis 18.00
BREAKAWAY ROPING
1 Laci Ast 41.00
2 Carlee Potter 38.00
3 Taylor Raupe 34.00
4 Addie Weil 31.00
5 Kiley Slavin 30.00
6 Marlee Quarles 25.50
7 Bella Sauvage 25.50
8 Reese Greenwood 23.00
9 Libby Berger 23.00
10 Ally Brennaman 22.50
BULL RIDING
1 Tate Pollmeier 59.50
2 Garrett Hathaway 29.50
3 Lane Gilbreath 18.00
CALF ROPING
1 Mason Stueve 53.00
2 Matthew Doherty 48.00
3 Brayden Kunz 45.00
4 Jd Robson 43.00
5 Pax Vogel 37.00
6 Kade Harland 34.00
7 Tanner Meier 33.00
8 Cutter Weil 29.00
9 Trey Adams 26.00
10 Brandt Walton 19.00
GIRLS CUTTING
1 Tylor Todd 20.00
2 Alexus Hatcher 18.00
GOAT TYING
1 Kiley Slavin 55.00
2 Tally Wikum 55.00
3 Lakin Cunningham 52.00
4 Sage Toews 40.00
5 Annsley Vernon 39.00
6 Ally Brennaman 36.50
7 Montana Heller 29.00
8 Hadley Teut 28.00
9 Carlee Potter 21.00
10 Emma Arndt 19.50
POLE BENDING
1 Abby Myers 49.00
2 Marlee Quarles 42.00
3 Aubryn Garriott 38.00
4 Prairie Rose Robbins 36.00
5 Tally Wikum 33.50
6 Lily Henderson 32.00
7 Ally Brennaman 30.00
8 Bella Sauvage 27.00
9 Libby Berger 26.00
10 Carlee Potter 21.00
REINED COW HORSE
1 Tylor Todd 10.00
2 Lakin Cunningham 9.00
SADDLE BRONC
1 Bryce Eck 50.00
2 Clay Shannon 27.00
3 Brody Harrison 18.00
STEER WRESTLING
1 Tanner Meier 38.00
2 Jd Robson 38.00
3 Logan Mullin 28.00
4 Kent Berkenmeier 18.00
5 Ryder Dent 7.00
TEAM ROPING
1 Mason Stueve 52.00
2 Trey Adams 52.00
3 Brandt Walton 42.00
4 Cale Morris 41.00
5 Jd Robson 38.00
6 Tanner Meier 33.00
7 Dylan Gugelmeyer 27.00
8 Porter Hall 27.00
9 Addie Weil 25.50
10 Cutter Weil 25.50
11 Matthew Doherty 25.00
12 Kade Harland 25.00
13 Brayden Kunz 23.00
14 Jaytyn Hash 22.00
15 Payton Blank 21.00
16 Pax Vogel 21.00
17 Rylan Wildeman 21.00
18 Hadley Teut 17.00
19 Bryce Teut 17.00
20 Kiley Slavin 16.00