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Meet the Member Chizm Kuykendall

story by Lindsay King Once a cowboy, always a cowboy. This is true for Chizm Kuykendall, who aspires to follow in his parent’s footsteps and become an Oklahoma State University cowboy. The 12-year-old just wants to study agriculture, but more importantly he just wants to rodeo. “My dad ranches and farms, so we ride horses and rope sick calves all the time. It’s just what we do,” said the sixth grader. As Chizm recounts his…

Meet the Member Laney Harryman

story by Lindsay King Laney Harryman, Tuttle, Oklahoma, is mounted on a gelding handed down through the family that has taught more people rodeo than most could even dream of. She calls him Spook (FastFooted Money). Now 23 years old, Spook took Laney’s cousin to many short rounds at state and national finals rodeos. “He has been a huge part of my rodeo career and taught me everything, he has helped me through so much,”…

Meet the Member Brooke Crenshaw

story by Lindsay King “The first time I entered a rodeo was in the mutton busting. I was ready and excited, but I remember really hating the mouth full of dirt I got when I fell off. I could not talk with it in there,” said Brooke Crenshaw, a five-event athlete in the OKJHSRA from Colbert, Oklahoma. Though she competes in poles, barrels, breakaway roping, goat tying and ribbon roping, she got started by running…

Meet the Member Kayleah Hurst

story by Lindsay King It’s not over until it’s over. This is the lesson Kayleah Hurst from Slick, Oklahoma, took away from the state finals last year. She also left with the championship title in the goat tying and her very first ticket to nationals. “I came into state in the goat tying 20 points away from making nationals. All I wanted was to make it, I didn’t think I had a shot at winning…

Meet the Member Sealey Bottom

story by Lindsay King The toughest part of tying goats for Cheyenne, Oklahoma, native Sealey Bottom is the fact that she is actually left handed. And this is why her sister Sydney, 17, is her biggest influence in the practice pen. “She is always telling me what I am doing wrong,” the 14-year-old joked. “I have had to learn a lot to do it right handed. She is right handed so that is why she…

Meet the Member Brody Thiessen

story by Lindsay King Just like his brother Chance, Brody Thiessen has an affinity for calf roping. The 13 year old wanted to follow in his brother’s rodeo footsteps while he still had the chance. “He was born with cerebral palsy and has never really had use of his right side,” said Lindsey, Brody’s mom. An extensive agenda for physical therapy followed Brody for the first few years of life, but riding horses also became…

Meet the Member Avery Dockrey

story by Lindsay King Sharp-shooter Avery Dockrey from Shawnee, Oklahoma, took her first trip to junior high nationals this year after taking third in the light rifle shooting for the OKJHSRA. The 13-year-old daughter of Shane and Mandy Dockrey; and Jennifer and Gregg Garrison first started shooting rifles with her dad while hunting white-tail deer. She is the oldest of four: Dace Dockrey, 4, and Jensen Dockrey, 7 months; and Emery Garrison, 6. “I like…

Meet the Member Jaedyn Getman

story by Lindsay King “I always get teased because when my mom was pregnant with my sister and I, she was still team roping. When we could walk we were sitting on a horse, we were on an old rope horse and I remember riding around the round pen for weeks before my mom would let me ride in the arena,” said Jaedyn Getman about the finer details of her entrance into the rodeo life.…

Meet the Member Brayden Duncan

story by Lindsay King Three pins protruding out of Brayden Duncan’s right arm surrounded by a cast for six weeks after a steer riding incident in the third grade is what he considers the most interesting thing to happen to him. “I was with a friend and we were messing around on a steer. The steer bucked me off and I ended up breaking my arm, it was almost a complete dislocation,” said the 13-year-old.…

Meet the Member Payton Dingman

story by Lindsay King “Rodeo is something that I absolutely love and would not pick another world to live in other than rodeo. I love the sport and the horses, I love it all. It is an amazing feeling to get to grow up in it,” said 12-year-old Payton Dingman from Pryor, Oklahoma. The breakaway roper and goat tier can’t pick her favorite event, they are both high intensity and fun for her. She has…

Meet the Member Clayton Moss

story by Lindsay King His feet rack back in an upward motion along the neck of a bareback horse, this is Clayton Moss’ favorite place to be in the world and the reason he rides. “I used to ride bulls, but my big brother Zach Hibler, 21, rides bareback horses in the PRCA. He helped me fall in love with it,” said the 13-year-old, Wheeler, Texas, native. Riding sheep since he was little bitty, Clayton…

Meet the Member Creek Williams

story by Lindsay King Fresh off a tough state finals, Creek Williams from Colony, Oklahoma, has goals for his seventh grade season in the OKJHSRA set. “My goal is to make it to nationals in all my events: ribbon, calf and breakaway roping. I am going to practice a lot more than I did this year and work hard to catch more calves,” said the 12-year-old. Creek will be balancing both rodeo and school sports…