National Champions Crowned at National Junior High Finals Rodeo

After an intense week of competition in June, that featured more than 940 contestants from all across the US, Canada, and Australia, the 2013 National Junior High Finals Rodeo National Champions were crowned at Red Rock Park in Gallup, New Mexico. Sixty-one Canadians from four Western provinces competed and while no Canadian emerged as a champion this year, they more than held their own in what might prove to be the biggest rodeo of their lives.

Chute Dogging: 15. Chance Bolin, Montney, BC 15.851

Boys Breakaway Roping: 11. Tee McLeod, Waldeck, SK 12.21

Tie-Down Roping: 5. Stran Schlosser, Nanton, AB 40.893

Pole Bending: 20. Taneesha Beaupre, Kamloops, BC 43.193

Junior Bull Riding: 2. K’s Thomson, Lundbreck, AB 155

Ribbon Roping: 10. Koby Ziemmer, Mayerthorpe, AB; Kylin Ziemmer, Mayerthorpe, AB 36.51

Team Roping: 16. K’s (Kenneth Kirk) Thomson, Lundbreck, AB; Koby Ziemmer, Mayerthorpe, AB 27.557; 17. Kash Bonnett, Ponoka, AB; Tater Schmidt, Barrhead, AB 27.633

Back L-R: Tanner Froshaug, Riley McClintock, Colt Kornfeld, Chanse Cutler, Tee McLeod. Front L-R: Acting National Director Walt Lockie, Shana Froshaug, Lexi Hicks, Shelby Lockie, Paige Mizu.
Saskatchewan
Back L-R: Tanner Froshaug, Riley McClintock, Colt Kornfeld, Chanse
Cutler, Tee McLeod. Front L-R: Acting National Director Walt Lockie,
Shana Froshaug, Lexi Hicks, Shelby Lockie, Paige Mizu.
Back L-R: Tate Schmidt, Jesse Fletcher, Luke Skocdopole, Kagen Schmidt, Kyla Gordon, Jason Smith, Kash Bonnett, Kylin Ziemmer, Stran Schlosser, Koby Ziemmer, K's Thomson, Colton Fletcher. Middle L-R: Jack Mitchell, Destiny Stevens, Jewel Brister, Hayze Stevens, Grady Quam, Dawson Graham, Blayde Melaney, Emily Massing, Reena Robinson, Madelyn Schauer, Martyna Vergoewen, Kylie Whiteside, Alberta JHSR President Rick Massing. Front L-R: Reata Schlosser, Austin Young, Mikenna Schauer, Bradi Whiteside, Bailey Sears, Marissa Boisjoli, Taylor Schmidt, Evan Spady, Jaclyn Pickerell, Tason Lelek.
Alberta
Back L-R: Tate Schmidt, Jesse Fletcher, Luke Skocdopole, Kagen
Schmidt, Kyla Gordon, Jason Smith, Kash Bonnett, Kylin Ziemmer, Stran
Schlosser, Koby Ziemmer, K’s Thomson, Colton Fletcher. Middle L-R:
Jack Mitchell, Destiny Stevens, Jewel Brister, Hayze Stevens, Grady
Quam, Dawson Graham, Blayde Melaney, Emily Massing, Reena
Robinson, Madelyn Schauer, Martyna Vergoewen, Kylie Whiteside,
Alberta JHSR President Rick Massing. Front L-R: Reata Schlosser,
Austin Young, Mikenna Schauer, Bradi Whiteside, Bailey Sears, Marissa
Boisjoli, Taylor Schmidt, Evan Spady, Jaclyn Pickerell, Tason Lelek.
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Alberta
Back L-R: Tylee Cooper, Sierra Jones, Dexter Keith, Kelsey Drinkall,
Chance Bolin, Wade Roberts, Tyrel Roberts, Owen Perry.
Front L-R: Lincoln Yarama, Nevada Dynneson, Taneesha Beaupre,
Britney Swaffield, Tommi-sue Little, Katie Holland, BC Rep Rod Keith.
L-R: Rep Art Cochrane, Riley Park, Ryder Millward, Cooper Millward, Hanna Kristjanson.
Manitoba
L-R: Rep Art Cochrane, Riley Park, Ryder Millward, Cooper Millward, Hanna Kristjanson.