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Meet the Member Shayla Boyce
August 8, 2019
story by Lindsay King The rush of a sliding stop and the catty turnback of cattle work gets Shayla Boyce’s heart beating just a tick quicker. The 16-year-old is a horsewoman through and through. The daughter of two horse trainers (Robbie and Angie Boyce), Shayla was destined for the arena but had a number of options of what to compete in. “My dad has always trained reined cow and cutting horses. My mom trains on…
Read MoreMeet the Member Adam Musil
July 18, 2019
story by Lindsay King The Musil men got started in rodeo back when Adam Musil’s great grandfather entered all the events he could in rodeo and eventually started producing them himself. The bug trickled through until it hit 17-year-old Adam, hard. “I can remember having a miniature pony when I was five years old and I would jump off him and wrestle the roping dummy to the ground,” said the Crescent, Oklahoma, native. His mom…
Read MoreMeet the Member Dalton Denney
July 3, 2019
story by Lindsay King In Clinton, Oklahoma, it is not an uncommon sight for a loaded horse trailer to be parked at a high school football or baseball game. It usually belongs to Dalton Denney’s family as they cheer him on at the field only to do the same thing the next day at an arena. “Life is busy and we really don’t have many weekends off. I get out of practice and then go…
Read MoreMeet the Member Sydney Bottom
June 20, 2019
story by Lindsay King “The best advice I have been given is rodeo does not define you, it is just something that you do,” said Sydney Bottom from Cheyenne, Oklahoma. This advice has advanced Sydney’s mental game considerably. However, rodeo is still what Sydney spends a majority of her time doing. “I got involved with rodeo when I was probably four, but what I remember most is always riding in the front of the saddle…
Read MoreMeet the Member Parker Glenn
May 16, 2019
story by Lindsay King It takes more than a torn ACL to keep Parker Glenn off the back of a horse. Though his injury came from riding, it wasn’t the kind he’s used to. This Edmond, Oklahoma, cowboy rides saddle bronc horses in addition to roping calves and steers in the OHSRA. “I started in the breakaway roping and then tied calves for a while, but it was never my strong suit. Ever since I…
Read MoreMeet the Member Joby Bush
April 18, 2019
story by Lindsay King “I think my biggest accomplishments are in front of me still. I have not done everything in rodeo that I want to yet, but I am working on it. My time is coming,” said Joby Bush, Yale, Oklahoma, native. The humble 18-year-old OHSRA tie-down roper knows the sweet taste of success against some stiff competition. Joby found himself roping in the short round of the T McGee’s Fall Frenzy Calf Roping…
Read MoreMeet the Member Landon Little
March 21, 2019
story by Lindsay King When life threw Landon Little a curve ball, he threw one right back. Traditionally, this Yukon, Oklahoma, family ropes, both calves and steers. Landon was a talented tie-down roper when he broke his leg right before the spring OJKHSRA started its spring run when he was in the eighth grade. He missed the entire spring season, but looked at it as more of an opportunity to try something new. “I decided…
Read MoreMeet the Member Shiloh Martin
February 14, 2019
story by Lindsay King Shiloh Martin showed up in leggings and thought she ruined the black-tie affair. Her first rodeo queen contest in Pawnee, Oklahoma, wasn’t exactly what the then 8-year-old bargained for. “I showed up on my dad’s ranch horse in a taco-shaped straw hat and my leggings. I looked like a country bumpkin,” said the 18-year-old Shidler High School senior as she noted how it’s easy to look back at it and laugh…
Read MoreMeet the Member Abbey Middleton
January 17, 2019
story by Lindsay King “I named my rope horse Lester Don, after my grandpa on my dad’s side. I never got to meet him, but I know we would have been best friends and he would have been at every rodeo. He would’ve been the only one in the world that would appreciate that horse as much as I do,” said Abbey Middleton in what could easily be mistaken for a southern accent. But, instead,…
Read MoreMeet the Member Ashlynn Green
December 27, 2018
story by Lindsay King “This sport is never not worth it to me, even if a run goes badly I always walk out with more knowledge,” said Ashlynn Green, a high school barrel racer from Choctaw, Oklahoma. “There is always something you can work on to get better, you will never have a perfect pattern. And that is why we go pro.” That is exactly what the 16-year-old barrel racer intends to do. “I want…
Read MoreMeet the Member Chance Thiessen
November 18, 2018
story by Lindsay King “He makes me want to work harder just because I know that he can’t do everything that everyone else does. I don’t want to take what I can do for granted,” said Chance Thiessen, Elk City, Oklahoma, about his younger brother Brody who was born with cerebral palsy. The 16-year-old roper is inspired by his younger brother, something he openly admits. “Brody just has so much fun competing in rodeo, he…
Read MoreMeet the Member Jacob Hickman
October 18, 2018
story by Lindsay King Fresh off his first trip to nationals, Jacob Hickman from Wilson, Oklahoma, is now a freshman agriscience major at Western Oklahoma State University in Altus. “Coming into state we were leading it, but in the last round we had a little bit of trouble so it bumped us down to third in the average,” said the 18-year-old. A little more trouble at nationals was nothing the team ropers could not overcome…
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