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Rocky Mountain Professional Rodeo Association (RMPRA)
Phone: (801) 419-3738
Mailing Address: Rocky Mountain Professional Rodeo Association
PO Box 269, Cedar Valley, UT 84013
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Meet the Member Erika Frost
May 18, 2023
story by Siri Stevens Erika Chartrand was raised in Montreal Canada and came south to attend college. “My dad said I could go as long as I didn’t find a cowboy that makes me want to stay down there – and I met Josh (Frost) at the first rodeo.” Not only did Erika meet her husband, but she was able to pursue making a living with her rope. “Back home, rodeo was a hobby or…
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Meet the Member Kelly Short
May 2, 2023
story by Siri Stevens Kelly Short has been riding saddle broncs since he was a junior in high school (2016), going through Idaho District 8 High School Rodeo. “I grew up in the sport, my dad (Marty Short) pro rodeoed for 20+ years, all through high school, college at UW, and on until he was 45.” His grandpa rodeoed in the RCA for a long time, staying in the Wilderness Circuit. He has been with…
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Meet the Member Keyton Wright
February 28, 2023
story by Siri Stevens Keyton Wright, from Nephi, Utah, took a quick trip (18 hours) to the Fort Worth Stockyards to show in the National Reining Cow Horse Association’s Celebration of Champions. “I’m a full-time college student (Snow College in Richfield, Utah) and in the summers and on the days I don’t have school, I’m training horses full time.” He and his dad, Cory, train team roping horses along with other disciplines. “I also work…
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Meet the Member Chelsie Jensen
January 19, 2023
story by Hope Raley Neola, Utah mother of four, Chelsie Jensen was raised at horse shows, taking naps in the stalls with the horses and watching all the talented competitors in various events. Her mother was a two-time Canadian National Champion English rider and she herself won reserve honors in western pleasure at a young age. “I had a great family that supported my various ambitions and goals, and I was able to become a…
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Meet the Member Kayson Jensen
September 23, 2022
story by Siri Stevens Kayson Jensen started riding bareback bucking ponies at 7 years old at his house in Elmo, Utah. “They weren’t intentionally supposed to be miniature bucking ponies, but somehow, they ended up that way,” said the 19-year-old who is sitting second in the RMPRA standings in the bareback riding. Kayson went on to Utah junior high and high school rodeo, competing in bareback and saddle bronc riding. He made it to Nationals…
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Meet the Member McKale Hadley
August 18, 2022
Story by Hope Raley Rocky Mountain Pro Rodeo Association has some of the best rodeo athletes competing at their rodeos and one of those talented athletes is 30-year-old Mckale Hadley from Plain City, Utah. Mckale hails from a long line of cowboys with rodeo going back many generations on both sides of her family. Both her parents, Sid and Wendy competed in rodeo. Mckale started competing in youth and junior rodeos at age seven. She…
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Meet the Member Breyer Newman
July 21, 2022
story by Lindsay Humphrey By the end of Cowboy Christmas, a rookie found herself at the top of the women’s all-around race in the RMPRA. That name was Breyer Newman from Rigby, Idaho. “My older siblings (Baden and Braily) got into the RMPRA and I wasn’t sure if I would get to enough rodeos this year to warrant buying my card too because I had high school rodeo this spring and I was in between…
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Meet the Member Oaklie Sanders
June 22, 2022
story by Linda Clark “Rodeo is a part of who I am. I don’t know any different kind of life and I like it like that, ” says 22-year-old cowgirl, Oaklie Sanders from Taylor, Utah, a town that is so small it can’t be found on a road map. “I try to live by this quote from Finding Nemo’s ‘Crush’ the turtle that I heard at Disneyland, ‘Whenever life throws you a wave, don’t fight…
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Meet the Member Kyler Oliver
April 25, 2022
story by Siri Stevens Kyler Oliver won the bull riding at the RMPRA Finals this past fall. “I started in the RMPRA when I was 14, getting on Ben Gurman’s bulls,” said the 22-year-old from Roy, Utah. Kyler has won the RMPRA more than once and this next year he will try for another season with that, but his schedule with PBR team series will cut into his time. Kyler started rodeo through his family;…
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Meet the Member Dean Thompson
March 17, 2022
story by Siri Stevens Dean Thompson, the 2021 RMPRA Bareback Riding Champion, didn’t come from rodeo roots. “I had one first cousin removed that rodeoed a little bit. My older brother, Derrik, had a rough year in football and took off to cowboy.” His uncle, Kevin Jessen, rodeoed and his son, Bodell, did as well. “He took me in as a fifth grader, and I rode calves at his house. He made me do push-ups…
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Meet the Member Dawson Stewart
February 24, 2022
story by Siri Stevens Dawson Stewart is the 2021 RMPRA Champion Steer Wrestler. The competition was tough. “The top four guys pro rodeo, “said the 22-year-old from Erda, Utah. “There’s probably 10 guys that pro rodeo out of the top 15 that went.” Dawson was excited to knock this title off his bucket list. He traveled every weekend with Shane Hancock, who won the year end in the calf roping. Dawson college rodeoed for Utah…
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Meet the Member: Shaylee Pulham
November 1, 2021
Story by Matt Naber Tragedy spurred success for breakaway roper Shaylee Pulham. Her horse, Silver, carried her through high school and most of college and then died part way through her senior year. But, qualifying for the College National Finals Rodeo showed she could win no matter what she rode. “When my horse died I thought I could never rodeo again since I wasn’t training anything else,” Pulham said. “But, I have a lot of…
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