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ProFile: Brazos Heck

story by Ted Harbin [ Brazos wins all-around championship at Jr.NFR in Las Vegas ] Brazos Heck is quite driven and focused. He knows exactly what he wants in his future to be. He’s a cowboy in every sense of the word, and in rodeo, he competes on the backs…

ProFile: Bridger Anderson

Bridger Anderson is getting a good start on his career rodeo resume. The Carrington, N.D. cowboy won the steer wrestling at Ote Berry’s Junior Steer Wrestling World Championship, held at the Junior National Finals Rodeo (NFR) in Las Vegas in mid-December. He’s a North Dakota High School Rodeo champ, and…

ProFile: Staci Trehern

story by Michele Toberer From dusty boots to a shiny tiara, Staci Trehern, Miss Rodeo New Mexico 2016, has made it a mission to teach young girls to find the power and uniqueness they have inside. Staci grew up on her family’s cattle ranch, The Lazy Spear T, in northern…

ProFile: Chason Floyd

Just $87 was the difference between riding into the Thomas & Mack in December and not. Chason Floyd kept his hold on the 15th spot for a couple weeks. He had to keep going to keep ahead of Josh Peek, who was trying up until the last minute to get…

ProFile: John Korrey

Ritchie Bros. auctioneer started as a country boy. John Korrey is a native of Iliff, Colorado, living on the same farm he was born on 64 years ago, but his voice has been heard throughout the United States and internationally as far as Dubai, the Netherlands, and Australia. Since 2003,…

ProFile: Randy Corley

Randy Corley, who lived in North Platte for two decades, is an inductee into the 2017 Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame. Corley never thought he’d make a living as a rodeo announcer, and there was a teacher at Niobrara County High School in Lusk, Wyo., who concurred. He was a…

ProFile: Karsyn Daniels

Karsyn Daniels, from McKinney, Texas, won the National Junior High National Finals Barrel Racing Championship for 2017. Out of around 160 girls, and inclement conditions, she and her horse, Muffin, were able to get a total of three clean runs: 15.6, 16.0 and the short to 15.7. “The 16.0 was…

ProFile: Cody Devers

Cody Devers is from Perryton, Texas, north of Amarillo by two hours. He started competing when he was young; he grew up on a horse. “Both my parents rodeoed, trained and sold horses for a living. My mom (Sabrina) is a barrel horse trainer/seller and does clinics, and my dad…

ProFile: Jeff Todd

In 1990 Jeff Todd graduated from high school in northwest Kansas. “I was second in my class, but that didn’t make the top ten percent since there were only 10 of us that graduated.”He went to Northwestern Oklahoma State University in Alva, Oklahoma on an academic and rodeo scholarship, roping…

ProFile: Sandro Ferretti

Sandro Ferretti’s friends have given him a nickname: the Cowboy. Not that unusual for an American, but very unusual for a Frenchman. That’s because there are no cowboys in France, except for Sandro Ferretti. Sandro (pronounced SAHN-dro), grew up in France and learned to love cowboys and rodeo when he…

ProFile: Kent Magnuson

Kent Magnuson did his rodeoing when he was young, and now he gets to continue in the sport with his job. The Kearney, Nebraska man, who grew up riding saddle broncs and tie-down and team roping, was never good enough to make a living at it. But when…

ProFile: Ronda Skinner

Breakaway roper Ronda Skinner is the co-owner of The Bar R Ranch in Idaho Falls, Idaho, a boarding and training facility she first envisioned while driving to school years earlier. Established in the late 1990s, The Bar R Ranch was many years in the making, starting with Ronda saving money…