Meet the Member Shylene Drumm
story by Ruth Nicolaus Shylene Drumm is a five-time Colorado Junior High School Rodeo champion. This year, she won the pole bending, breakaway roping, goat […]
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Troupe Coors from Loveland, Colorado, made his debut at the NJHFR earlier this summer in the team roping, where he and heeler Seth Anderson finished fourth in the nation with 40.38 on three head. “In the short round, I missed my dally, so I had to run back in and dally, but it was a really fun experience,” says Troupe, 15. “I learned that anything could happen, and if you don’t have your best run, it’s okay. You forget about it and worry about your next run. We hung out with friends a lot and went swimming a few times. My mom cooks really good meals at the rodeos, so that helps me keep going, and it’s just so fun that it seems to go by really quickly.”
Troupe started rodeoing three years ago when he joined the CJRA. “My parents didn’t do rodeo, but we moved to a place where we could have horses, and my oldest brother started roping first and I wanted to get into it too,” recalls Troupe, who got his first horse, Pilgrim, from Wes Lay. Troupe also competed in tie-down roping, goat tying, and ribbon roping last season, but his favorites are a tie between team roping and tie-down roping. “I like calf roping because it all relies on you, you have to be athletic, and it makes you work a little bit more. In team roping, I like having a friend and partner to rely on. I’m really happy with how I finished at state finals. I came in kind of lower at state finals in team roping but finished third, as well as second in tie-down roping and first in goat tying.”
Practice is a daily occurrence that often involves the entire family. Troupe’s parents, Rebecca and Shane Coors, join him and his siblings, Buck (17), Rett (13), Johanna Blake (11), and Esther Grace (10) in the arena. They also have an older brother, Ace, who lives in Texas. Troupe is helping Johanna Blake with team roping and breakaway roping, and he competed with Buck in the CJRA in team roping, where they finished fourth in the year-end standings.
“I don’t think of rodeo as work. It’s a good time to hang out and fellowship with people and have a fun time, but also to learn and grow, and it’s just a good place to have community,” says Troupe. “I want to keep God first in my life—He’s the most important, and that’s what matters most, even in rodeo. The Dickens family—Skip, Joey, and Kyle have helped me so much with my roping. I know I wouldn’t have gotten where I am without their help over the past few years. Rod Gracey also helps me a lot with my roping and horsemanship. I am roping in CSHSRA with his step-son, Jacob Haren, so I get a lot of help from them. Other men who have greatly influenced and inspired me, both in roping and in my faith, are Jacy Dickens, Dirt Terrell, and Trent Sharon, who disciples and teaches us in Cowboy Church each weekend.”
A homeschool student, Troupe is a freshman this fall and enjoys math, though he admits he’d much rather be out with his horses all day. He rides a gray gelding, Gus, in the tie-down roping and recently started heeling on him, and can head, heel, and rope calves on his sorrel horse, Mouse. Troupe headed off his brother’s horse Easy last season to rope with Seth, but is switching back to heeling this fall. He also enjoys downhill skiing and doing tricks in the terrain park, and his dad is teaching him fly fishing. “We’re going to try to get out a lot this fall to fly fish, and our first high school rodeo is in Eagle, and I’m going to fish in the river,” Troupe finishes. “My goal for the high school rodeos this year is to make it to Nationals with Jacob, honor God, and treat people well along the way.”
story by Ruth Nicolaus Shylene Drumm is a five-time Colorado Junior High School Rodeo champion. This year, she won the pole bending, breakaway roping, goat […]
story by Ruth Nicolaus When Tally Harthun isn’t rodeoing, she’s reading. Or baking. Or showing 4-H steers. Or running with her dad. Or playing basketball. […]
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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