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Meet the Member Cassidi Alverson
September 28, 2023
story by Ruth Nicolaus If it’s true that people act like their pets, Cassidi Alverson is a prime example. The Colorado High School Rodeo Association member thinks her and her pole bending horse, Nikki, are alike. The sixteen-year-old mare “is a very complicated horse,” Cassidi said, “and I like to think that if I was a horse, that’s who I would be. She and I think very much alike. We have the same type of…
Read MoreAugust 31, 2023
Quincy Montoya finished the 2022-2023 high school rodeo season as the number three cowgirl in the world in the goat tying. The Hesperus, Colo. cowgirl, a Colorado High School Rodeo Association member, competed at the National High School Finals rodeo in the goat tying and the breakaway roping. The feeling of being nearly at the top was a great one, she said. “It was awesome. It was honestly an unbelievable feeling that not a lot…
Read MoreMeet the Member Coleman Shallbetter
August 3, 2023
story by Ruth Nicolaus The armrests on the chairs at the Shallbetter home near Gunnison, Colo., are in bad shape, and it’s Coleman Shallbetter’s fault. As a toddler, the now 18 year-old cowboy, a member of the Colorado High School Rodeo Association, dreamed of riding broncs and rode the armrests till they were nearly worn out, his mom Stephanie said. “He’d spur and yell ‘buck off,’ fly through the air, crash on the ground, and…
Read MoreMeet the Member Daniel Taylor
February 28, 2023
story by Ruth Nicolaus At the suggestion of a good friend, Daniel Taylor began his Colorado High School Rodeo Association career last fall. The Greeley, Colo. cowboy is friends with bareback rider Peyton Schaefer. The two met at an X2D Ranch Ministry event, and hit it off. Peyton told Daniel he needed to compete in the high school association, and that’s how Daniel got his start. At eighteen years of age, Daniel is a senior,…
Read MoreMeet the Member Colton Clymer
January 19, 2023
story by Ruth Nicolaus Out of about 1,200 students at Loveland (Colo.) High School, Colton Clymer is the only one he knows that competes in Colorado High School Rodeo Association in the school. When his classmates and teachers find out he rides bulls, they have one of two reactions. “Some kids are amazed, and some kids are like, ‘what are you doing?’” Colton said. “It’s hard for people to understand, who have no clue” about…
Read MoreMeet the Member Madison Richman
November 17, 2022
story by Ruth Nicolaus Madison Richmann is president of the Colorado High School Rodeo Association. The Keenesburg, Colorado cowgirl competes in the breakaway roping, barrel racing, and pole bending, with breakaway being her favorite. She has team roped in the past, but not this year. Her horsepower includes an eighteen-year-old dark brown gelding named Joe who is her breakaway horse. He’s a new purchase for the family, and he’s made her a better roper. “He’s…
Read MoreMeet the Member Nathan Lammers
October 20, 2022
story by Siri Stevens “Dad put some money in our account five years ago and we’ve managed it from there,” said 16-year-old Nathan. “If the money gets low, we don’t enter the rodeo, and if it’s high then we have some to spend – on ropes and tack and different things like that.” Both boys have a checking and savings account. “It’s all done on my phone,” explained Nathan. “From depositing checks to managing the…
Read MoreMoffat County High School Rodeo Club
August 18, 2022
Story by Siri Stevens Joyce Barnes has been involved with the Moffat County High School Rodeo Club for 12 years. She started when her oldest, Casey, was in junior high. All three of her sons have come through the Moffat County High School Rodeo Club and her youngest, Cactus, is still involved at 15 years old. Casey, now 26, is out of college and hauls cattle for a living, rodeoing locally in the PRCA as…
Read MoreMeet the Member Jaycie Love
July 21, 2022
By Lindsey Fancher Jaycie Love’s life as a cowgirl is a miracle. The 17-year-old from Eaton, Colorado is an all-around hand on the ranch and within the rodeo arena. She also is a leukemia survivor. On November 5th, 2012, Jaycie, the eldest of three, was diagnosed with Leukemia. All resources the family had went into curing her, “It was devastating,” recalls dad, Josh, “It put a strain on everybody since we had to put so…
Read MoreMeet the Member Sydney May
May 19, 2022
story by Ruth Nicolaus Sydney May is applying physics to the rodeo arena. The Colorado High School Rodeo Association cowgirl took advanced physics class this year and loved it. The learning applies to real world situations, so Sidney used what she learned in the barrel racing. She takes her videos and determines how long it takes to get from the eye to the barrel, when she should start slowing down, and when she should stop.…
Read MoreMeet the Member Tate Welch
April 25, 2022
story by Ruth Nicolaus Tate Welch builds rifles. The Colorado High School Rodeo Association member has built two AR-15s. He starts with an unfinished receiver, using a drill press and router to mill it out. Then he purchases the other parts and puts it together. He likes to include features in his guns that the manufacturers don’t include, like a 3.5 lb. trigger (instead of the standard 7 lb. trigger), and making them left-handed, since…
Read MoreMeet the Member Kallie Russell
March 17, 2022
story by Ruth Nicolaus Kallie Russell is in her final year of competition in the Colorado High School Rodeo Association. The eighteen-year-old cowgirl, a resident of Elizabeth, Colo., is a barrel racer. Her mount is a ten-year-old gray mare named Maggie Mae, who the Russells got last year from Tristan Lewis. After not having a barrel horse her junior year, Kallie is pleased with the mare, although they have had some challenges to overcome. “It’s…
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