Meet the Member Sean Arellano
story by Ruth Nicolaus Sean Arellano loves riding bulls. When he started his Colorado Junior High School Rodeo Association competition a year ago, he said, […]
Rider Linke practicing his chute dogging - courtesy
story by Ruth Nicolaus
Rider Linke is steadily adding more skills to his rodeo repertoire.
The Granby, Colo. cowboy, a member of the Colorado Junior High School Rodeo Association, does trap shooting and chute dogging, but next year, as a freshman, hopes to add tie-down and team roping.
Of his two events, he considers chute dogging his strength because of his skill and muscle strength.
Rider is an eighth grade student at East Grand Middle School in Granby. He loves seeing his friends, but there’s always homework, which usually consists of one page of math every night, which isn’t too bad. He loves US History and Civics class, including studying the Wild West, mountain men, and wars. If he could meet one person from the past, it would be gunman and gambler Doc Holliday.
He plays basketball, wrestles and shows sheep, goats and pigs in 4-H.
For fun, he likes to do metal and wood work and has made a shelf, a gun rack, and flowers out of bolts and washers. He’s really looking forward to high school shop class.
Rider knows his way around a kitchen as well as a rodeo arena. If he’s hungry for his favorite, chocolate chip cookies, he makes them and can even separate an egg yolk from the white. He likes to make waffles (from scratch) and oatmeal in the mornings, and even makes his own elk jerky with spice concoctions that might include a peppery or teriyaki flavor. “I throw some stuff (in the jerky) and see how it turns out. It’s usually really good,” he said.
Sometimes he makes snacks, but occasionally he’ll have dinner ready for the family, which might be quesadillas, nachos or tacos. And he cleans up after the meal, too!
If he was given $1 million, Rider would buy his dad’s truck, then pay for college and buy a house and an acreage.
The truck is important to him. It’s a 1996 F350 crew cab manual with 200,000 miles on it. “As long as I can remember, I’ve loved it,” he said. “Anytime I’ve been in it, it’s been a happy feeling.”
The truck has a classic look to it, he says, and everybody wants to purchase it: his cousins, his sister’s boyfriend, and his friends. “Everybody wants to buy it, but I’ve kept him from selling it.”
The most fun he’s had on a trip was going to Panama City, Florida with his best friend and his friend’s grandparents. “They let us have the reins,” he said. “We spent a lot of time on the beach and met a whole bunch of new people. It was a lot of fun.”
He’s an excellent skier: he can ski any run at the Winter Park Resort, including the double black diamond chutes. He can jump off rocks in the powder snow, and loves riding his Ski Doo 800 snow machine.
When he grows up, he’d like to be a rancher.
This is the first year Rider is fully invested in junior high rodeo. He competed a bit his seventh grade year, but not much.
His parents, Trey and Jolene, love their son for a variety of reasons: his zeal for life, his work ethic, his respectfulness, and his willingness to help out on the ranch.
Rider has two older sisters: Sierra, who is 24, and Juliette, who is 22.
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September 27, 2020
BARREL RACING
1 Cassidy Evans 81.00
2 Jolene Rhyne 52.00
3 Savanah Roberts 48.00
4 Aspen Autry 47.00
5 Jaycee Yonkers 44.00
6 Adalie Hansen 42.00
7 Ashley Anstead 39.00
8 Brylee Brehm 34.00
9 Shaylee Spaid 29.00
10 Rivers Hill 22.00
BOY’S BREAKAWAY
1 Traven Sharon 69.00
2 Chance Knez 33.00
3 Stran Lechman 33.00
4 Wesley Lammers 29.00
5 Mason Neese 23.00
6 Brayden Betsworth 17.00
7 Tucker Canty 17.00
8 Nolan Reardon 14.00
9 Hogan Kelley 8.00
10 Travis Canty 8.00
BOY’S GOAT TYING
1 Traven Sharon 89.00
2 Nathan Lammers 65.00
3 Cash Evans 64.00
4 Wesley Lammers 63.00
5 Cactus Barnes 50.00
6 Brayden Betsworth 42.00
7 Chance Knez 33.00
8 Nolan Reardon 16.00
9 Tucker Canty 16.00
10 Foster Krempin 12.00
BULL RIDING
1 Logan Durham 50.00
2 Tucker Jacobson 28.00
3 Benjamin Sittler 28.00
CHUTE DOGGING
1 Cash Evans 82.00
2 Nathan Lammers 75.00
3 Cactus Barnes 67.00
4 Jack Pankey 26.00
5 Ryan Pankey 21.00
6 Coltyr Goss 20.00
7 Nolan Reardon 16.00
8 Foster Krempin 15.00
9 Logan Stillings 5.00
GIRL’S BREAKAWAY
1 Cassidy Evans 56.00
2 Roan Spencer 34.00
3 Luci Bruchez 23.00
4 Aspen Autry 23.00
5 Brylee Brehm 19.00
6 Shylene Drumm 18.00
7 Adalie Hansen 17.00
8 Shaylee Spaid 16.00
9 Jolene Rhyne 10.00
10 Savanah Roberts 8.00
GIRL’S GOAT TYING
1 Blake Coors 72.00
2 Cassidy Evans 63.00
3 Shylene Drumm 62.00
4 Jolene Rhyne 50.00
5 Brylee Brehm 49.00
6 Shaylee Spaid 46.00
7 Jaycee Runner 35.00
8 Aspen Autry 29.00
9 Ava Dole 19.00
10 Roan Spencer 15.50
POLE BENDING
1 Cassidy Evans 64.00
2 Jolene Rhyne 55.00
3 Savanah Roberts 45.00
4 Roan Spencer 45.00
5 Ashley Anstead 43.00
6 Aspen Autry 43.00
7 Olivia Betsworth 32.00
8 Brylee Brehm 29.00
9 Grace Landwehr 28.00
10 Merica Van Pelt 25.00
RIBBON ROPING
1 Nathan Lammers 61.00
2 Jolene Rhyne 61.00
3 Cactus Barnes 60.00
4 Cash Evans 60.00
5 Cassidy Evans 60.00
6 Jaycee Yonkers 60.00
7 Blake Coors 57.00
8 Hogan Kelley 57.00
9 Traven Sharon 28.00
10 Josey Mcclain 28.00
RIFLE SHOOT
1 Dalton Groom 81.00
2 Wesley Lammers 74.00
3 Jack Pankey 64.00
4 Logan Stillings 49.00
5 Ryan Pankey 48.50
6 Foster Krempin 30.00
7 Nolan Reardon 11.50
SADDLE BRONC-STEER
1 Cash Evans 67.00
2 Traven Sharon 29.00
3 Wyatt Bartel 17.00
TEAM ROPING
1 Nathan Lammers 40.00
2 Wesley Lammers 40.00
3 Cash Evans 39.00
4 Cassidy Evans 39.00
5 Traven Sharon 20.00
6 Hogan Kelley 20.00
7 Cactus Barnes 9.00
8 Jack Pankey 9.00
9 Ryan Pankey 9.00
10 Stran Lechman 9.00
TIE DOWN ROPING
1 Nathan Lammers 68.00
2 Cash Evans 60.00
3 Cactus Barnes 53.00
4 Coltyr Goss 31.00
5 Foster Krempin 23.00
6 Hogan Kelley 16.00