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Meet the Member Ali Murphy

story by Michele Toberer Ali Murphy is fully enjoying her final season of membership with the Louisiana High School Rodeo Association; a group she’s been a part of since she was in the 6th grade. Serving as the association’s student secretary for the second season has helped make her senior year even more fulfilling. “Being secretary has been great and helped me to get to know more members. I love being more involved in the…

Meet the Member Taylor and Tyrin Allen

story by Siri Stevens Taylor and Tyrin Allen love riding bulls. The boys live in Glynn, Louisiana; Pointe Coupee Parish, about 25 miles from Baton Rouge. “It’s a rural area with sugar cane fields and levees,” explained their mother, Monica, who is thrilled that her boys ride bulls. “I love it – it’s an adrenaline rush for me – I can’t wait for the next rodeo. I get my reward seeing how excited they are…

Meet the Member Kase Busby

story by Michele Toberer As a sophomore in the Louisiana High School Rodeo Association, Kase Busby is grateful to have been a part of the association since he was a sixth grader in Leesville, Louisiana. “Louisiana has some of the best competition in the nation, so competing at that level every weekend can really step-up your rodeo skills.” Kase not only competes in tie-down roping and team roping, heading for Jacques Trahan; but he’s also…

Meet the Member Karli Kyle

story by Michele Toberer Karli Kyle is excited about the 2019/2020 Louisiana High School Rodeo Association where she will not only compete in barrel racing, pole bending, and breakaway roping, but will also serve as the association’s vice president. The role has a special meaning to her, because her father, Kenny Kyle was once the vice president of LHSRA while he competed in the association during his own high school years. “It means a lot…

Meet the Member Justin Plaisance

story by Michele Toberer Justin Plaisance rolled into Huron, South Dakota ready to show the world why he was the 2019 LJHSRA Champion All-Around Cowboy, and that is exactly what he accomplished. The 14-year-old, Virtual Academy of Lafourche 8th grader qualified for the National Finals Junior High Rodeo in tie-down roping, team roping, chute dogging, and ribbon roping, and was in the top 20 junior high cowboys in the world in 3 of the 4…

Meet the Member Claire Vincent

story by Michele Toberer For a first-time trip to Rock Springs, Wyoming, Claire Vincent will be packing more than your average girl. She and her parents, Carrie Hollingsworth and Joe Dekeyzer, will be lugging suitcases full of multiple wardrobe changes with all the matching accessories, as she prepares to compete in the 2019 National High School Rodeo Association Queen contest in July, representing her home state of Louisiana. She has come along way from the…

Meet the Member Kaylee Kinney

story by Michele Toberer The Louisiana High School Rodeo Association has been a big part of the Kinney family for generations. Kaylee Kinney, a sophomore member of LHSRA has already spent three junior high years with the association before moving up to the high school division last year. She is honored to compete in the same association that her parents, Lee and Tressie Kinney once did. Tressie, a respiratory therapist, ran barrels, poles, and tied…

Meet the Member Cory Constance

story by Michele Toberer The Louisiana High School Rodeo Association has played a big part in the life of 17-year-old Cory Constance of Sulphur, Louisiana. He’s been a member since he was in sixth grade and has competed in multiple events over the years. As an eighth-grader, Cory represented the Louisiana Junior High Rodeo Association at the national junior high finals in Des Moines, Iowa in ribbon roping, goat tying, saddlebronc steer riding, and bareback…

Meet the Member Abigail James

story by Michele Toberer Rosepine High School senior, Abigail James will be saying farewell to the Louisiana High School Rodeo Association at the end of the 2019 season, after competing with them since she was a sixth-grader. Abigail competes in breakaway roping, barrel racing and team roping, heading for partner Coy Baxter. Having the LHSRA as such a big part of her youth has been a blessing that she is grateful for. “I like to…

Meet the Member Will Boudreaux

story by Michele Toberer “Try to rope fast, or be last,” is the attitude Will Boudreaux maintains when it comes to his rodeo performance. Although the 14-year-old, South Cameron High School freshman has only been competing in rodeos for the past 4 years, his determination to master his events and chase his rodeo dreams has given him success from the beginning. “Will was actually tricked into entering his first rodeo when he was 10. He…

Meet the Member Dre Swain

by Michele Toberer Louisiana High School Rodeo Association was the perfect place for Dre Swain to get his start in rodeo. Growing up in Lake Charles, Louisiana with his parents Carolyn and Ronald Swain, Dre remembers a black Thoroughbred gelding simply called “Black” as his first horse when he was two-years-old, but until he was 14, and had moved to LeBleu Settlement, Louisiana, rodeo was not part of his life. His parents built a house…

Meet the Member Cole Ford

story by Michele Toberer With four generations of cowboys behind him, it was no surprise that Cole Ford of Sulphur, Louisiana, would find himself in the rodeo arena. However, despite the family history steeped in rank rodeo runs, it wasn’t until Cole was watching the WNFR on television as a sixth-grader, that Shane Hanchey’s fast calf tying hands, got the rodeo blood pumping in his 10-year-old body. Until then, he had heard plenty of rodeo…