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PO Box 269, Cedar Valley, UT 84013
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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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Meet the Member Kiara Elegante
July 22, 2021
story by Jaicee Williams Kiara Elegante is a fiery barrel racer from Bluffdale, Utah, who has been a part of the rodeo world since she was 5 years old. Kiara is currently working on her rookie year in the Rocky Mountain Professional Rodeo Association (RMPRA) and kicked it off with wins in the barrel racing at the second and third rodeos at Ogden, Utah, at the beginning of the year. Kiara’s family has always been…
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Meet the Member Bill Henry
June 24, 2021
story by Jaicee Williams Bill Henry is in his third year as a bull rider in the Rocky Mountain Professional Rodeo Association (RMPRA). Bill is the first member of his family to rodeo in the RMPRA. As of March 23rd, the Manila High School senior is leading the standings in the bull riding after a big win at the second rodeo of the Winter Series Rodeo in Ogden, Utah, in February with an 88-point ride.…
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Meet the Member Wyatt Ahlstrom
May 20, 2021
story by Jennie Lawrence Rocky Mountain Professional Rodeo Association (RMPRA) member Wyatt Ahlstrom is a self-professed team roping fool, and he comes by it naturally. Both his dad and his grandpa roped, and Wyatt has been roping since he was a little boy. He has been a member of the RMPRA for three or four years. He took home the reserve championship in the team roping event last year. He is also a member of…
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Meet the Member Connor McKell
April 22, 2021
story by Jennie Lawrence Springville, Utah cowboy Connor McKell is the Rocky Mountain Professional Rodeo Association (RMPRA) 2020 Champion Steer Wrestler. Connor has been a member of the RMPCA for three years. While he used to do tie-down roping, team roping and steer wrestling, he now just focuses on the latter event. It is his favorite. He is also a member of the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association (NIRA) and the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA.)…
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Meet the Member Kallie Wright
February 25, 2021
story by Jennie Lawrence Milford, Utah cowgirl Kallie Wright was the barrel racing average winner at the recent Rocky Mountain Professional Rodeo Association (RMPRA) finals. She jockeyed BCK Spyder Monkey, a six-year-old bay mare to the win. Kallie says, “Spyder is an amazing horse that I have a special bond with.” She also has the same bond with Spyder’s dam, Pheobes Myth, barn name Viper. Spyder is a homebred mare, by The Goodbye Lane. Kallie…
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Meet the Member Bubba Holcomb
January 28, 2021
story by Jennie Lawrence Quentin “Bubba” Holcomb has been a member of the Rocky Mountain Professional Rodeo Association (RMPRA) either two or three years. Bubba, as he prefers to be called does not know how he got his nickname, he has just always had it. Bubba calls New Harmony, Utah home. He was born in Texas, but his family moves to Oregon when he was six. They just kept moving around, and finally ended up…
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