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Meet the Member Teigen Marchant

story by Lily Weinacht

Teigen Marchant is the 2017 WHSRA Tie-Down Roping Champion. He’s leading the event again this season and sitting third in the steer wrestling. “I pretty much like them equally,” says the 18-year-old from Newcastle, Wyoming. “I like that you can really improve calf roping. There’s no set way you calf rope, and there’s something new you can always change with it. I like that with steer wrestling you can get a really fast run and get close to what the pros are doing. In calf roping, it’s really harder to be down in that six-second area than you’d expect.”
Cliff Anderson hazes for Teigen in the WHSRA, and Alan Good hazes for him in the NLBRA, where Teigen competes in the same events along with ribbon roping when someone needs a partner. He looks up to his parents, Dilly and Jace Marchant, who introduced him to rodeo. His mom and her twin sister rode bulls, while his dad team roped and steer wrestled. “My dad used to go to high school with Jason Miller, and I always grew up watching him steer wrestle, so I’ve always wanted to kind of be like him. In calf roping, Cary Reese has helped me out quite a bit, and I look up to Cody Ohl as well.”
Practice slows down in the winter when Teigen is wrestling, but over Christmas break, he went to a rodeo camp in Van, Texas, put on by Rope Myers, and won the weekend jackpot in the steer wrestling. He often enters the Intermountain Icebreaker High School Invitational Rodeo in Ogden, Utah, held in March, and his rodeo travels have also taken him to the NHSFR and the NJHFR when it was in New Mexico. “My motivation is mostly just for the love of it (rodeo) and knowing that I want to pass it down to my kids when I get to that age,” says Teigen. “It really helps pay for colleges, and there’s so many great experiences, and people you get to meet down the road.”
Teigen’s tie-down roping horse, Cash, has been his roping horse since eighth grade. He started out as Teigen’s sister’s breakaway horse, but when she focused in on goat tying, Teigen took the gelding over. “I started roping calves on him and he really turned a corner and became a good calf roping horse.” He steer wrestles on Pretty Boy, a palomino the Marchants traveled to Idaho to buy. “He wasn’t as good in the box as I wanted him to be, but Dean Finnerty in Wyoming helped us fix everything, and I couldn’t ask for a better horse now.” The Marchants also keep a handful of roping calves in the summer, and Teigen ropes the Perfect Calf dummy or practices occasionally with one of the college rodeo teams in the area. His sister, Ashten Marchant, competes on the Lamar Community College rodeo team.
Teigen wants to study civil engineering in college, and plans on going to a community college before transferring to the University of Wyoming. Meanwhile, he’s finishing his senior year at Newcastle High School and doing an internship with a weed and pest control business. “A lot of it was just for the knowledge of all the weeds that are around us, and it’s good to know for when I own my own land,” explains Teigen, who will continue working in the business this summer. He’s also in the middle of wrestling season and helps coach the Upton Middle School wrestling and AAU wrestling teams. Additionally, he’s the Newcastle FFA vice president and will most likely be on the Ag. mechanics team. “This year I’m focusing on getting another state title and going to Nationals and doing a bit better,” he finishes. “I’d like to get a state title in wrestling, and calf roping and steer wrestling.”

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Bareback Riding
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2 Riggen Myers 71.5
3 Derrick Robinson 10
4 Dimaggio Hamilton 9
5 Denton Pavlenko 9
6 Drake Amundson 9
7 Cameron Henson 8
Barrel Racing
1 Shelby Petersen 109
2 Shay Hough 102
3 Maddie Fantaskey 91
4 Taylor Nichols 89
5 Ellie Bard 83
6 Haiden Thompson 78.5
7 Cedar Kohr 75
8 Isabelle Camino 51
9 Baily Coombs 37
10 Halle Hladky 32
Boys Cutting
1 Wes Bray 111
2 Hunter Hayden 100
3 Preston Schwartzkopf 92
4 Joseph Hayden 91.5
5 Kasen York 91
6 Broc Schwartzkopf 15
7 Kall Mayfield 11.5
Reakaway Roping
1 Ellie Bard 67
2 Ellie Anderson 59
3 Jordyn Mcnamee 56
4 Rayne Grant 56
5 Kaydin Davis 49
6 Hadley Furnival 45
7 Shaylee Terry 42
8 Haiden Thompson 40
9 Hailey Hardeman 36
10 Kyra Corson 35
Bull Riding
1 Brody Hasenack 90
2 Dalton Mccaslin 84
3 Zain Fitzgerald 82
4 Wyatt Phelps 74
5 Donny Proffit 43.5
6 Matthew Fenton 41.5
7 Cjay Firnekas 41.5
8 Landen Brownlee 34
9 Tipton Wilson 28
10 Derek Grant 18
Girls Cutting
1 Ayanah Winsor 115.5
2 Emme Norsworthy 100
3 Taylor Gibson 92
4 Aniya Teppo 88.5
5 Maddie Fantaskey 34
Goat Tying
1 Tavy Leno 118
2 Haiden Thompson 109
3 Brooke Worman 92.5
4 Shaylee Terry 79
5 Karissa Phillips 76
6 Mckenna Clingman 56
7 Ellie Bard 49
8 Rayne Grant 47
9 Baylee Delbridge 41
10 Lanna Jordan 38
Light Rifle
1 Colter Nunn 30
2 Stratton Kohr 27
3 Tipton Wilson 23
4 Cody Caldwell 20
5 Peityn Manor 19
6 Alexis Wilson 14
7 Kennedy Sheehan 10

Pole Bending
1 Shay Hough 118
2 Halle Hladky 99
3 Shelby Petersen 73
4 Rayne Grant 66.5
5 Ellie Bard 64.5
6 Madison Wolff 61
7 Jordyn Mcnamee 45
8 Hailey Hardeman 44
9 Haiden Thompson 42
10 Amber Salazar 42
Reined Cow Horse
1 Clay Kinnison 38
2 Preston Schwartzkopf 32
3 Kasen York 30.5
4 Maddie Fantaskey 27
5 Tierney George 23
6 Peyton Kottwitz 21.5
7 Ayanah Winsor 19
8 Morgan Vaughan 12.5
9 Scotlyn Flitner 11.5
10 Hanna Griemsman 3
Saddle Bronc
1 Jase Longwell 63
2 Kayson Dory 49
3 Donny Proffit 38
4 Cian Ahern 20
5 Parker Manor 18
6 Wyatt Phelps 10
7 Guston Lozier 10
8 Cody Acord 8

Steer Wrestling
1 Winsten Mcgraw 98
2 Kaden Berger 78
3 Kagen King 73
4 Skyler Lubkeman 69
5 Jake Deveraux 63
6 Chase Stricklin 60
7 Danny Goold 52
8 Derrick Robinson 37
9 Chance Sorenson 33
10 Donald Quick 19
Team Roping
1 Jade Espenscheid 95
2 Coy Johnson 95
3 Kolby Bradley 62.5
4 Arye Espenscheid 62.5
5 Blake Afdahl 61
6 Clay Reiner 61
7 Carson Johnson 53
8 Teegan Leno 51
9 Bryan Lemmon 51
10 Jared Lemmon 51
11 Jase Longwell 48
12 Winsten Mcgraw 44
13 Lane Anderson 44
14 Cooper Deveraux 40.5
15 Jake Deveraux 40.5
16 Tanner Handy 40
17 Cameron Klatt 40
18 Bryton Scheller 37
19 Teagan Bentley 36
20 Dawson Mccuin 36
Tie Down Calf Roping
1 Jake Deveraux 83
2 Preston Schwartzkopf 77
3 Cooper Deveraux 69
4 Colter Ellis 67
5 Clay Reiner 63
6 Teagan Bentley 46
7 Cody Caldwell 45
8 Teegan Leno 45
9 Coy Thar 44
10 Weston Mills 43
Trap Shooting
1 Colter Ellis 28
2 Bryson Bartholomew 27
3 Carsten Hughes 25.5
4 Kolton Miller 17
5 Dawson Mccuin 12.5
6 Quincy Reynolds 12
7 Brodee Barkhurst 11.5
8 Alexis Wilson 10.5
9 Kagen King 8.5
10 Clay Reiner 7.5

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May 26-27 Buffalo

FINALS
June 3-8 WY HS State Finals – Gillette
July 14-20 NHSFR – Rock Springs, WY

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