{"id":48152,"date":"2023-02-21T08:36:19","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T14:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/?p=48152"},"modified":"2023-02-21T08:36:20","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T14:36:20","slug":"tarleton-state-rodeo-team-gears-up-for-spring-debut-in-odessa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/tarleton-state-rodeo-team-gears-up-for-spring-debut-in-odessa\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarleton State Rodeo Team Gears Up for Spring Debut in Odessa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

STEPHENVILLE, Texas \u2014 The <\/em>Tarleton State women\u2019s rodeo team sits atop the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association Southwest Region standings as the spring season kicks out of the chute Feb. 23-25 at Odessa College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tarleton has eight women in the top 10 regional spots in goat tying, and three each in breakaway roping and barrel racing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re excited for the spring semester,\u201d said assistant coach Brittany Stewart. \u201cEveryone is working hard and firing on all cylinders.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Goat tying specialist Rayme Jones is second in the region entering the second half of the 2022-23 season, with teammates Tori Brower and Mary Risse tied for third and Shyanne Bauerle in fifth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Acey Pinkston leads Tarleton barrel racers, earning third place in the fall, trailed by Jordan Driver in fifth and Rylan Heller in eighth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tarleton\u2019s men, the reigning national champions, are third in the region. Their 1,720-point first half trails just first-place Western Texas College and runner-up Clarendon College. The effort has been led by team roping headers Wyatt Bray, Korbin Rice and Thomas Allen, who hold the region\u2019s top three spots. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Four Tarleton saddle bronc riders \u2014 Lance Gaillard, Brody Wells, Cash Wilson and Ira Dickinson \u2014 are in the top 10; bareback riders John Berry, Jake Kesl and Payton Lackey are in third, sixth and 10th<\/sup> positions, respectively; and bull riders Jacob Carige and Riggen Hughes are knotted in sixth along with tie-down roper Wyatt Crandall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following Odessa will be the Ranger College Rodeo, March 23-25 in Sweetwater; the Western Texas College Rodeo in Snyder, March 30-April 1; the NIRA stop at Howard College, April 13-15; and the regular-season finale, the Tarleton Stampede in Stephenville, April 20-22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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