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Cassidy Blank - Jeff Frazell
story by Michele Toberer
Kansas High School Rodeo Association senior, Cassidy Blank, is enjoying her final year with the association she’s been a part of since she was a 6th grader. While she completes her studies at Kingman High School, the Murdock, Kansas cowgirl is packing as much into this season as she possibly can. Not only does she compete as a breakaway and team roper, but she also juggles a full schedule playing basketball for the school, serving as the FFA president, and as the FFA representative for student council, which she’s been involved in for all four years of high school. Cassidy is very involved in the Future Leaders in Business Association and was part of the state’s national qualifying competition team. “I went to San Antonio, Texas as part of the parliamentary procedure team, which was an amazing experience.” At the completion of Cassidy’s senior year, she’ll move up the rodeo ranks to Garden City Community College in Garden City, Kansas where she’ll begin her ag business studies while competing in the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association.
Rodeo started at 3 years old for Cassidy, as she grew up surrounded by her team roping dad, Nick Blank, and multiple aunts, uncles and cousins on his side of the family that rodeoed. “My dad’s family used to run 100 head of horses and ran cattle on a lot of land, and the most of them rodeo. My mom, Tiffany Blank, has never rodeoed but she’s supportive of all that we do.” Cassidy’s 15-year-old brother, Payton, is also a KHSRA member and competes as a heeler. Cassidy started out in multiple events, but by the 6th grade, she knew her main passion was roping, and has stuck to roping calves and steers ever since. Cassidy qualified for nationals her sophomore year in breakaway and missed qualifying for nationals last season by one point. “Breakaway roping is my favorite event, by a mile! I’m so excited to see how the sport is growing and really, really hope they bring it to the NFR soon!”
Cassidy is heading for her partner, Avery Brown, this season, and is glad to be doing it on her flea-bitten-grey gelding, Chip. “Chip is 20, and we found him at a feedlot about 10 years ago. We brought him home and started roping on him, and he’s honestly pretty much the best horse ever! He’s gentle and one of those go with the flow horses. He’s reliable and makes the same run every time.” Cassidy’s breakaway horse Poker is a 13-year-old twin gelding to Chip as far as looks, but completely opposite when it comes to personality. “I’ve been riding Poker for 5 years and he and Chip look exactly alike but are completely different; Poker is very scatterbrained until we get in the arena.”
Cassidy appreciates the help of several people in her rodeo career and will miss the people of the KHSRA that have become like family to her. “I’m so grateful to have grown up in the KHSRA. They all treat you like family and it’s fun at the rodeos to be around people that love the same things you do. I really appreciate the help of Junior Lewis, Shawn Hollenbeck, and Dave Flickner with my calf roping. Junior really got me started, and now anytime I have trouble roping calves I see Shawn or Dave. My dad and my cousin, Chance Frampton always help me out with team roping. I couldn’t do it without them all. I really appreciate my parents, if they didn’t haul me up and down the road, I wouldn’t be where I am today.”
Cassidy is very artistic and loves to paint and draw when she has the time. She’ll be following her parents into the agricultural field; her dad is a regional manager of crop adjusters in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas, and her mom works at the Farm Service Agency in Kingman, Kansas. Cassidy worked as harvest help this summer for Skyland Grain Co-Op and hopes to gain an internship there and secure a position as their Eastern Area Manager after obtaining her ag business degree. For now, she’ll continue towards her goal of finishing the final season with KHSRA as the champion breakaway roper.
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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