For Jaden Trimble, church is a pretty important place to be. The Kansas Junior High Rodeo Association member is also a member of the Cowboy Capital Fellowship Church at Lenapah, Okla., where he has a lot of friends, and where he loves to hang out with the youth group kids, who are supportive of his rodeo. He likes his youth group pastor, Steve Brinker, as well as the church’s pastor, rodeo announcer Justin McKee.
Jaden, who lives in Coffeyville, Kan., is a chute dogger, breakaway roper, ribbon roper (he ropes for McKenzie Storey), and heads for Skyler Kunz. He and Skyler are members of the 2013-2014 Junior High Cinch Rodeo Team. He rides a nine year old blood bay gelding named Barjo, who the family has had since he was two. This will be Barjo’s first year in the breakaway roping; Barjo has mainly been his heel horse.
Jaden is a seventh grade student at Caney Valley High School in Caney. The best part of school is P.E., where his favorite game is dodge ball. The worst part of school is science, which is “too complicated,” he says. He loves to read westerns, but the best book series he’s read lately is Percy Jackson and the Olympians. He also loves to do pencil sketches, and will enter a horse drawing in the Montgomery County Fair this fall. Jaden enjoys hunting deer and hogs and fishing for bass, too. Of his events, team roping is his strong suit, because he’s been team roping since he was seven. “I’ve always been a better team roper than I have anything else.”
The family has a three year old English bulldog who weighs 45 lbs. Harley Jo is spoiled rotten, mostly by Jaden’s mom, he says. Jaden’s mom feeds her Blow Pops, which she loves. She holds them for the dog to lick, but makes sure when Harley Jo gets down to the bubble gum, she throws it away so the dog doesn’t eat the gum. Harley Jo sleeps with Jaden, just like a human. She gets under the covers and even rests her head on a pillow. “She’s hard to push over,” Jaden says. “When you’re half-asleep, it’s hard to push a dog over.”
For fun, Jaden likes to rope with friends and hang out. He is a member of the Peppy Progressive 4-H Club, where he shows horses. When he grows up, he wants to be a professional team roper and steer wrestler and qualify for the National Finals Rodeo.
He competed at the Junior High state finals last year in the team roping and breakaway roping, finishing in the top five in the team roping. He is also a member of the USTRC, and has enjoyed roping with his dad at the Finals in Oklahoma City the last two years. He has been heeling since he was seven and began heading last year.
He is the only child of Shawn and Tonya Trimble.
