March 24, 2023
Justin Rumford Discusses The Evolution Of A Rodeo Clown “Someone told me that rodeo clowns are just cowboys that can’t make it competing. I love being a rodeo clown. It’s my dream job! I win every performance.” Justin Rumford is a third generation rodeo cowboy. He’s tried many positions in…
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September 28, 2022
When Denard Butler closes his eyes, he’s thinking about one of two things: either steer wrestling, or making money. The Checotah, Okla. cowboy, a roper-turned-steer wrestler, steer wrestles, owns two businesses, and models for Wrangler. He didn’t grow up in a rodeo family. The son of Floyd and Yvonne Butler,…
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August 18, 2022
Summer Kosel from Glenham, South Dakota, was talked into entering Cheyenne to “experience it just once.” That experience will be with this mother of four for a long time as she and her eight-year-old gelding, Apollo (registered as FireWaterFrenchFame), set the arena record during the qualifying round on July 22.…
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May 23, 2022
“I’m going to manage it all the same way most women do it all – make a list, prioritize it all, and like Dory said, ‘keep swimming’.” Linsay Rosser Sumpter added another hat to her collection. The mother, wife, competitor, and rodeo coach now serving as the Commissioner for the…
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March 2, 2022
[ If ever there was a match made in heaven, it was between Johnny Salvo and Clay Acuna during the World Series of Team Roping Finale XV in Las Vegas this last December. The pair grew up together in New Mexico junior rodeo, but life eventually led them both to…
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January 2, 2022
2021 Breakaway World Champ When the 2021 World Champion Breakaway Roper was crowned in Las Vegas in December, she wasn’t even old enough to buy a drink or sit at a gaming table. Nineteen-year-old Sawyer Gilbert sat with her “rowdy” roping friends, while they drank, buying a few rounds…
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December 2, 2021
Cole Patterson shatters regular season earnings record with $104,516 Announcers used to introduce Cole Patterson to the crowd as the son of four-time world champion steer roper Rocky Patterson (2009-2010, 2012, 2016). That’s not the case any more as the young steer roper won the 2021 steer roping world title.…
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It’s double-duty for Jim Dewey Brown. The Arizona cowboy became general manager for Prescott Frontier Days in February and he will begin as commissioner for the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association on Jan. 1. Although more than 1,100 miles separate his home-base and the NIRA office in Walla Walla, Wash.,…
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June 14, 2021
story by Jaicee Williams A Snyder, Colo. native, Quincy Segelke, has had a college career full of leadership positions in the world of college rodeo. Quincy is currently the student president of the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association (NIRA) and has served as a regional director for the Central Rocky Mountain…
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May 4, 2021
Related by Rodeo: How the Cowboy Sport Passes Down Family Values & Traditions In the last century and a half, what started as rough and tough bachelors wrangling cattle on the open plains has transformed into the largely family sport of rodeo as we know it today. Any cowboy or…
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April 5, 2021
Chuck Kinney appreciates the Rodeo Clown Reunions, and plans on seeing his old friends at the 2021 event, to be held at Colorado Springs August 5-8, and the Douglas County Fair and Rodeo in Castle Rock, Colorado as well as the ProRodeo Hall of Fame & Museum of the American…
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October 5, 2020
Brenda Youtsey Reay was the first girl to win the National High School Finals rodeo in the team roping in 1986. “I’m happy for all the kids that win the high school finals – -it pays for college educations as well as is a great honor for all kids.” Brenda’s…
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