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Meet the Member David Streweler
April 21, 2022
story by Ruth Nicolaus David Streweler’s athleticism has helped him in a variety of different sports, including rodeo. The Golden, Colo. cowboy, a member of the Colorado Pro Rodeo Association, has played baseball, bowled, ridden dirt bikes, bareback horses and bulls. He competed in high school rodeo as a bull rider but went to college as a baseball player. About fifteen years ago, he began riding bareback horses. David would watch his buddy practice on…
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Meet the Member Nate Hoey
March 17, 2022
story by Ruth Nicolaus Following the 2021 Colorado Pro Rodeo Association Finals, bull rider Nate Hoey added three more items to his resume. He won the year-end title, the finals title, and had the high mark ride of the Finals. Not only that, but he was the first bull rider in ten years to cover all three bulls at the finals. Born and raised in Montrose, the CPRA member competed in local jackpots throughout high…
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Meet the Member Laura Martin
February 17, 2022
story by Siri Stevens Laura Martin, from Lakewood, Colo., is the new secretary for CPRA. “I jokingly call myself a rodeo junkie. I love the sport, the way of life, and everything about it,” she said. “To be able to come in and be part of this association and rodeo as a whole – this has actually been a goal for many years.” Laura is no stranger to the rodeo world. Her passion for the…
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Meet the Member Chase Vossler
January 13, 2022
story by Ruth Nicolaus At 4:30 am every weekday morning, Chase Vossler is pumping iron in his shop at home in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The Colorado Pro Rodeo Association bareback rider likes to stay fit, and he likes to mix up his workout regimen, hard weight days with cardio days. It’s all to stay in shape for rodeo, which the 22-year-old cowboy has been doing since his high school days. Growing up in Cheyenne, he participated…
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Meet the Member Mark Bowers
June 24, 2021
story by Ruth Nicolaus Mark Bowers has a most unlikely rodeo story. The Colorado Pro Rodeo Association member has never competed in rodeo. But he’s always been interested in it. Growing up in Oklahoma, he and his family attended rodeos. But his heart was in basketball in part because of his dad, a college basketball coach. When his son Chase was little, they would watch rodeo on TV together, Chase on the arm of the…
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Meet the Member Brady Buum
May 20, 2021
story by Ruth Nicolaus Brady Buum balances work as co-owner of All Cowboy Erosion Control and rodeo as a steer wrestler in the Colorado Pro Rodeo Association and the PRCA. The Keenesburg, Colo. cowboy, with his family, started the business in 2009, a year after he became a CPRA member. He grew up the son of rodeo parents: Bradley, the 1991 CPRA steer wrestling champ who was also a bull rider, and LoRena (Jackson) Buum,…
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Meet the Member Lorie Diodosio
April 22, 2021
story by Ruth Nicolaus Lorie Diodosio is the barrel racing director for the Colorado Pro Rodeo Association. The Fowler, Colorado cowgirl has been involved with horses and barrel racing her entire life. She grew up near Pueblo, Colo., competing in local saddle clubs, 4-H, Little Britches Rodeos and high school rodeo. She was a CPRA member for several years till her daughter, Dolly, was born in 1999. Lorie rides futurity barrel horses and loves it.…
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Meet the Member Sandy Singer
February 25, 2021
story by Ruth Nicolaus For many years, Sandy Singer was the friendly face in the rodeo arena office. The La Junta, Colo. woman served for 28 years as a rodeo secretary in the Colorado Pro Rodeo Association, and still keeps books for the association. Growing up in Las Animas, Colo., she got her start when sisters Jenny and Jerri Mason, rodeo secretaries themselves, decided she needed to learn. So they sat her down at their…
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Meet the Member Denton Ward
January 28, 2021
story by Ruth Nicolaus As a kid, Denton Ward got to see a lot of rodeo life. Alongside his brother, Dalton, the boys helped their dad, Billy Ward, a pickup man, with his horses at pro rodeos across the nation. They’d saddle and unsaddle horses, warm them up, cool them down, grain and feed. And wherever their dad was, they’d tag along, helping with whatever he was doing: sorting cattle, chasing cattle out of the…
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Meet the Member Erin Johnson
November 19, 2020
story by Ruth Nicolaus Erin Johnson loves the competition and challenges rodeo provides her. The Fowler, Colo. cowgirl is a long-time Colorado Pro Rodeo Association member, as well as being part of the Women’s Pro Rodeo Association. She grew up in a ranching family, competing a bit in team roping at a few local gymkhanas and Little Britches Rodeos. But during her time in college at Chadron (Neb.) State and Colorado State University-Pueblo, her breakaway…
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Meet the Member Charity Hoar
October 22, 2020
story by Ruth Nicolaus If Charity Hoar isn’t riding, she’s sitting in front of a computer screen or embroidery machine. The Pine Bluffs, Wyo. cowgirl is part of four different ventures with her husband, Stuart. Together, they own Wyoming Blanton Enterprises, Stuart’s horse breeding and training business, Bonanza Production, their event production business, an embroidery, lasering and custom awards business, and a custom furniture company. And in her spare time, Charity competes in the breakaway…
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Meet The Member Jerry Berentis
August 20, 2020
story by Siri Stevens Jerry Berentis grew up in Maybell, Colorado, riding bucking horses. “Whenever you start riding bucking horses it’s every rough stock riders dream to become a stock contractor – I got lucky enough to let it happen. My folks didn’t like rodeoing very much. I went to one with my friend when I was 16 and got on a bull and got lucky and made the whistle. I rode him and I…
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