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Meet the Member Shealynn Rasmussen
May 18, 2023
story by Ruth Nicolaus Shealynn Rasmussen had plenty to juggle on her high school graduation weekend. Not only did she graduate from Burwell High School in May, but she competed at the Nebraska High School Rodeo (also in Burwell) and helped to host a high school trap shoot in Ord as well. But the seventeen-year-old cowgirl is good at multi-tasking. A resident of Burwell, she competes in the barrels, the goat tying and trap shooting.…
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Meet the Member Trell Shrewsbury
May 2, 2023
story by Ruth Nicolaus Trell Shrewsbury is wrapping up his final months in the Nebraska High School Rodeo Association. The nineteen-year-old lives near Alliance, Neb., and competes in the tie-down and team roping. He’s heeled the last three years of high school but this year switched ends and ropes in front of Montgomery Brown. His head horse is a 2006 model, a sorrel whose pedigree goes back to Smart Little Lena. Trell’s dad rode the…
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Meet the Member Morgan Rosander
February 28, 2023
story by Ruth Nicolaus [ “Streaker is “like a big puppy dog,” Morgan said. “She’s very sweet and always wants attention.” Prada is a different story. She’s “your typical mare. Very sassy.”] Morgan Rosander loves to run. Whether it’s for fun, relaxation, or just time to think, she can often be found on the gravel roads around her Wolbach, Neb. home, or on the treadmill, during the winter, with her earbuds in, listening to old…
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Meet the Member Ella Lacey
January 19, 2023
story by Ruth Nicolaus Ella Lacey hasn’t been a member of the Nebraska High School Rodeo Association for long, but she loves it. The Weston, Neb. cowgirl, a barrel racer and pole bender, began high school rodeo in the fall of 2021, but the following spring, didn’t rodeo due to having mono and no horsepower. She started back up with the sport last semester. For the barrels, she rides a fourteen-year-old palomino gelding named Legit,…
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Meet the Member Kate Rathjen
October 20, 2022
story by Ruth Nicolaus Kate Rathjen has set standards and goals for herself. When the Nebraska High School Rodeo Association cowgirl was a little girl, she told herself that she should do the best she could, “and that I need to give 110 percent,” she said. No matter if it’s rodeo, sports or school work, she gives her all. A resident of David City, Kate competes in the barrel racing, pole bending and breakaway roping.…
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Meet the Member Caiden Milam
September 23, 2022
story by Ruth Nicolaus t took a letter, written by Caiden Milam to his parents, to convince them to let their son ride bulls. It wasn’t like Ricky and Michelle Milam were opposed to their son competing in the sport, they just didn’t know much about it. But after some discussion, they allowed him to begin rodeoing, and now they’re fans. “They’re my biggest supporters. It’s awesome, to have their support.” The seventeen-year-old, a member…
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Meet the Member Coy Johnston
August 18, 2022
Story by Ruth Nicolaus National High School Rodeo world champion steer wrestler Coy Johnston and his parents, Jason and Jennifer, were on their way home from Gillette when, a few miles from home they saw red and blue lights flashing behind them, and they thought they were being stopped for speeding. It was the Logan County (Neb.) sheriff, signaling them over. But it wasn’t to give them a ticket, but to instruct them to follow…
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Meet the Member Zane Kreikemeier
July 21, 2022
story by Ruth Nicolaus Zane Kreikemeier is a Cornhusker-turned-Okie. The Nebraska High School Rodeo Association member moved to Marlow, Oklahoma with his family in March, but spent much of the last three months in Nebraska, staying with his cousin, Coy Johnston, in Stapleton, Neb., so he could finish high school rodeo. A tie-down roper and team roper, his calf horse is a sixteen-year-old mare named Chance, who was started by his parents as a five-year-old.…
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Meet the Member Rylee Legg
May 19, 2022
story by Ruth Nicolaus Rylee Legg is a strong proponent for high school rodeo. The Kenesaw, Neb. cowgirl, in her second and final year as a member of the Nebraska High School Rodeo Association, didn’t begin high school rodeo till her junior year, but absolutely loves it. If friends asked her what is so good about high school rodeo, “I’d say you should do high school rodeo because you’ll meet lifelong friends and learn lots…
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Meet the Member Zack Bradley
April 25, 2022
story by Ruth Nicolaus A broken leg might keep Zack Bradley down, but it won’t keep him out. The Nebraska High School Rodeo Association member was doctoring calves last July when his horse went down, breaking his tibia and fibula bones and requiring surgery, three plates and various screws. And it all happened the week before the National High School Finals Rodeo, where he would have competed in the team roping. So Zack went to…
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Meet the Member Abigail Lawton
March 17, 2022
story by Ruth Nicolaus Abigail Lawton is a self-proclaimed perfectionist. The Overton, Neb. cowgirl, a member of the Nebraska High School Rodeo, works hard to make sure her schoolwork, rodeo competition, and her extracurricular activities are all completed to the best of her ability. She competes in the pole bending, barrel racing and goat tying, with poles as her strength, mainly because of the challenges it presents. “In poles there are so many times that…
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Meet the Member Leif Meidell
February 21, 2022
story by Ruth Nicolaus If things go as planned, Leif Meidell will be back to riding bucking horses again this spring. The Harrison, Neb. cowboy, a saddle bronc rider and team roper in the Nebraska High School Rodeo Association, came off a bucking horse wrong at the Lexington, Neb. rodeo last fall and broke his neck. He was in a neck brace for a while, and at the end of February, was cleared to ride…
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