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Mailing Address: P.O. Box 83377,
Oklahoma City, OK 73148
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Meet the Rodeo Company Rockin’ K Rodeo
story by Siri Stevens Tony Keeton started his company, Rockin’ K Rodeo in 2017. It’s not his only full time job. Tony has worked for UPS for 27 years. “It’s changed … the online shipping and the size of the packages. 90% of what we hauled was office supplies, now its bedroom and 15 boxes of groceries. We’ve gone from a supply chain for businesses to a supply chain for houses. As bad as Covid…
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Meet the Member Andrew Burks
story by Michele Toberer After rodeoing for over half of his life, Andrew Burks was glad to add the 2019 IPRA Rookie Champion Calf Roper title to his list of accomplishments. Now 23 years old, the Kiln, Mississippi cowboy has team roped a little but mainly focused on tie-down roping in his rodeo career. “Competing at the Lazy E Arena at IFR 50 was pretty awesome. It was a different set up than usual with…
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Meet the Rodeo Company K Bar K Rodeo Company
story by Michele Toberer With a lifetime of experience in rodeo, Joe Don Griffin and Kim Stewart joined forces to start J Bar K Rodeo Company three years ago. Based out of Sweetwater, Tennessee, J Bar K primarily produces rodeos across the states of Tennessee and Georgia and has focused on International Professional Rodeo Association sanctioned and co-sanctioned events from the beginning. “Joe Don and I are a good team and we both have long-standing…
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Meet the Rodeo Company Big Horn Rodeo Company
story by Michele Toberer Big Horn Rodeo Company of Lamar, Oklahoma has been proudly offering quality rodeo livestock and full personnel and rodeo options for committees since 2009. Kyle Robison always knew as he grew up on the competitor side of the rodeo business, that working as a stock contractor was what he wanted to do one day in his future. Big Horn Rodeo Company has been a part of International Professional Rodeo Association events…
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Meet the Member Lukasey Morris
story by Michele Toberer International Professional Rodeo Association Rookie Champion Bull Rider, Lukasey Morris, stepped into competition with the “big boys” in a BIG way, earning a title that many grown men aspire to. Contestants at IFR50 definitely took notice of the homeschooled 17-year-old high school junior, as he rode three of his four championship bulls at the Lazy E Arena in Guthrie, Oklahoma. “It was pretty exciting to compete at the IFR and even…
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Meet the Rodeo Company Big Horn Rodeo Company
story by Michele Toberer Big Horn Rodeo Company of Lamar, Oklahoma has been proudly offering quality rodeo livestock and full personnel and rodeo options for committees since 2009. Kyle Robison always knew as he grew up on the competitor side of the rodeo business, that working as a stock contractor was what he wanted to do one day in his future. Big Horn Rodeo Company has been a part of International Professional Rodeo Association events…
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Meet the Member Tim Palmer
story by Michele Toberer The road is calling, and he must go. Tim Palmer, 28, knows no other way of life and wouldn’t have it any other way. Whether he was on the road with his family as they traveled across the country with his evangelist preacher dad; or when he was older and chasing gold buckles on the rodeo trail. Even now, as he plans to retire from rodeo competition, he’ll hit the roads…
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Meet the Member Kenneth Glick
story by Michele Toberer Kenneth Glick is 20 years old and will never forget his first International Finals Rodeo, storming into Guthrie, Oklahoma leading the rookie saddle bronc and rookie all-around cowboy races and leaving with those titles all wrapped up. He was the only rookie bronc rider or rookie all-around cowboy to qualify for the IFR50 and made his mark on the Lazy E Arena floor, finishing 3rd in the 2nd round and 5th…
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Meet the Member Tyler Dahl
story by Michele Toberer His family thought he was a bit crazy when they heard he was stepping into the arena as a bullfighter, but after seeing the natural talent and ability Tyler Dahl had, as well as the passion he found for a new sport, they became a huge source of support for him. Tyler’s mom passed away when he was just 17, but he’s still close to his stepdad and his wife, Phillip…
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Meet the Member McKinley Belvin
story by Michele Toberer McKinley Belvin lives a cowboy life as if he’s in an era that has come and gone. His days are spent on horseback, catching wayward cows, breaking colts, and teaching his two young sons the cowboy way. Still carrying a flip phone, and never even having an email address, the technological ways of today provide no interest to McKinley; he’s much more concerned with the pride he gains in a job…
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Meet the Member Shawn Spaulding
story by Michele Toberer “There’s just something women like about a pickup man,” may just be a line in a Joe Diffie song about guys that drive pickup trucks, but the truth is that everyone in rodeo likes a good pickup man. Shawn Spaulding has spent the past 20 years working as a rodeo pickup man and preparing for the opportunity he has to work at the IFR50 in Guthrie, Oklahoma in January. Born and…
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Meet the Member Kelsey Mabry
2018 IPRA Champion Rookie of the Year story by Michele Toberer The International Professional Rodeo Association feels as much like home to Kelsey Mabry as her own living room in Piedmont, Alabama. That might be because she’s been competing in IPRA rodeos for years and the majority of her family is there competing alongside her. Last year was Kelsey’s first year as an IPRA cardholder and she was the 2018 IPRA Champion Rookie of the…
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