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Meet the Director Jim Boy Hash

story by Lily Weinacht Jim Boy Hash of Kendall, Kansas, is the new KJHSRA National Director. The father of two competing in the KJHSRA and KHSRA, and the head rodeo coach at Garden City Community College since 2003, Jim Boy has helped the next generation of rodeo athletes for many years. Until recently, he was the faculty director for the Central Plains Region rodeos at GCCC for five-and-a-half years, but he chose to take on…

Meet the Member Konner Barnett

story by Lily Weinacht Konner Barnett of Oakley, Kansas, is leading the chute dogging in the KJHSRA standings. This is the 14-year-old’s third season competing in rodeo, following after his older siblings, who introduced rodeo and cutting into the family. “Rodeo is fun, and it gives me something to do,” says Konner. “I do team roping—I’m the heeler and I rope with Blake Stutzman. This is our first year roping together. We live a couple…

Meet the Member Mady Swayze

story by Lily Weinacht Mady Swayze started off her rookie season in the KJHSRA by winning the average in the pole bending in Canton, putting her in the lead in her favorite event. The 13-year-old from Freedom, Oklahoma, is also sitting in the top five in her other events of breakaway roping and barrel racing. “Rodeo is just really fun and I enjoy it,” says Mady. “My cousin Kayla used to do high school rodeo…

Meet the Member Montana Heller

story by Lily Weinacht Montana Heller from Meridan, Kansas, is leading the goat tying in the KJHSRA. The 13-year-old rookie is new to the KJHSRA but no stranger to the rodeo world, which she started competing in five years ago. Her dad rode bulls, and many of her cousins have rodeoed, inspiring Montana to do the same. “You get to do what you love, and meet new people,” she says. Montana also competes in the…

Meet the Member Lane Meairs

story by Lily Weinacht Lane Meairs stepped into the rodeo world several years ago and punched his ticket for his first NJHFR this summer in the bull riding. “I was pretty confident about state finals, but I was a little nervous,” says Lane, 13. He finished fourth in the state, and while Nationals didn’t go as well as he hoped, the cowboy from Manter, Kansas, says he learned from the experience. “Next year, I want…

Meet the Member Grace Gardiner

story by Lily Weinacht Grace Gardiner from Ashland, Kansas, makes a goal chart each season, and this year she checked off every goal—academic and rodeo—including competing at an American qualifier and going to the NJHFR in barrel racing and pole bending. “Nationals was a great experience—I was overjoyed with it,” says the 13-year-old. “I knew I had the horse to do it. Ranger is an awesome horse, but we had just gotten him and that…

Meet the Member Addie Weil

story by Lily Weinacht “I can’t imagine my life without rodeo. I love rodeo and everything about it, and I love the people. Even if you don’t win, yet get something out of it,” says Addie Weil. But win she did when the 14-year-old from Edna, Kansas, was crowned 2018 KJHSRA Rookie of the Year and qualified for the NJHFR in three of her five events. “I knew I had a chance to qualify, and…

Meet the Member McKayla Miller

story by Lily Weinacht McKayla Miller put her town of St. John, Kansas, on the map at the 2018 NJHFR, winning Reserve All-Around Champion Cowgirl and finishing in the top ten in the nation in three of her events. The 13-year-old represented Kansas at the 2017 NJHFR as well but truly found her stride this year, returning home with a Slone Saddle, six buckles, and other prizes such as a therapy sheet for her horse,…

Meet the Member Tate Pollmeier

story by Lily Weinacht Tate Pollmeier is the 2018 and 2017 KJHSRA Bull Riding Champion. “Last year was my first state title. I came into the second half of the season in eighth place and slowly worked my way up in the standings and went into state finals sitting third,” says Tate of his rookie year. “I really wanted to make Nationals, and I won the first and second rounds and fourth in the short-go,…

Meet the Member Travis Kessler

story by Lily Weinacht Travis Kessler comes from a family of ropers and steer wrestlers. The 15-year-old from Abbyville, Kansas, is carrying on that tradition by competing in the KJHSRA, where he’s sitting fourth in the chute dogging standings. “Rodeo has just been a family thing, and I thought I’d keep it going,” says Travis. “It’s something I find more fun to do than other sports. I’ve done football, but I’m pretty focused on rodeo.…

Meet the Member Jentry Schell

story by Lily Weinacht Jentry Schell of Wymore, Nebraska, lives just six minutes from the Kansas border. She and her family load up every weekend and turn south to rodeo in Kansas, where the KJHSRA and KHSRA gives them the opportunity to rodeo together. Jentry, 14, competes in barrel racing and pole bending, and her 17-year-old brother, J.W., competes in team roping in high school. This is their first year of junior high and high…

Meet the Member Marlee Quarles

story by Lily Weinacht Marlee Quarles lives in the very top of the 177-mile-wide Texas Panhandle near Pampa, Texas, making it an easy drive into Kansas for her KJHSRA rodeos. This is the 13-year-old’s rookie year in the KJHSRA, which she learned about from her friends that she competes with in the NLBRA. “All the people go out there and try their hardest to win, and they all just work together,” says Marlee. “Everyone is…