Area youth headed to National Junior High Finals Rodeo

Four area youth persevered through spring blizzards, getting up early before school and staying up late after to hone their skills, and the many miles of travel across Wyoming in their journey to qualify for the National Junior High Rodeo Association Finals to be held in Gallup, N.M., June 23 through 29. Wyoming state finals were held in Casper on May 17. Sixth through eighth grade members from around the state and bordering states competed to add points to their regular season totals hoping to land in the top four at the end of the two rodeo finals.

Reata Hoar, a Pine Bluffs eighth grader mad...