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Location: Texas | Ok so the thread about making horses your career got me thinking. Ok- college rodeo would your true 1D horse be competitive in college rodeo or is that another step up?? |
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Location: Beggs, OK | Your true 1D horse would be wasted at college rodeos and probably end up crippled from the bad set-ups and horrible ground. |
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Location: Kansas | rachellyn80 - 2015-08-20 3:05 PM Your true 1D horse would be wasted at college rodeos and probably end up crippled from the bad set-ups and horrible ground.
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Location: Texas | rachellyn80 - 2015-08-20 3:05 PM
Your true 1D horse would be wasted at college rodeos and probably end up crippled from the bad set-ups and horrible ground.
Wasted as in not competitive or to sore to run?? |
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Location: Kansas | BarrelRacingChick - 2015-08-20 3:19 PM rachellyn80 - 2015-08-20 3:05 PM Your true 1D horse would be wasted at college rodeos and probably end up crippled from the bad set-ups and horrible ground. Wasted as in not competitive or to sore to run??
College rodeo is very competitive.....more towards being sore |
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Location: Beggs, OK | As in there is a lot more money to be won on a 1D horse elsewhere. The college rodeos don't pay well and only take the top 10 back to the short go no matter how many entries they have.
In this region the college rodeo horses have to be able to stand up on anything from deep mud to concrete, handle side gates, tiny pens, and many times there aren't stalls available at the arenas. |
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Location: Texas | Ok thank you :). |
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| Yeah, if barrels is your only event, then I probably wouldn't mess with it. Way more money to be won at WPRA Rodeos, Big Barrel Races, even Amateur Rodeos. Now if you goat tie and breakaway too, then that would be more of an incentive. Scholarships for rodeo really aren't all that great unless you go to a Jr/Community College or very small University. |
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Location: Texas | SpaceCowboy - 2015-08-20 3:55 PM
Yeah, if barrels is your only event, then I probably wouldn't mess with it. Way more money to be won at WPRA Rodeos, Big Barrel Races, even Amateur Rodeos. Now if you goat tie and breakaway too, then that would be more of an incentive. Scholarships for rodeo really aren't all that great unless you go to a Jr/Community College or very small University.
Looking at hill college. I thought about WPRA but I want to wait until I can focus on WPRA so I can go for rookie. |
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| College rodeos are a strange deal. Girls that win WPRA can't hardly make a short go at college rodeos and girls winning at college can't draw a check in the WPRA. Most of the time you have trash ground or it's a mud pit. |
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| BarrelRacingChick - 2015-08-20 5:44 PM
SpaceCowboy - 2015-08-20 3:55 PM
Yeah, if barrels is your only event, then I probably wouldn't mess with it. Way more money to be won at WPRA Rodeos, Big Barrel Races, even Amateur Rodeos. Now if you goat tie and breakaway too, then that would be more of an incentive. Scholarships for rodeo really aren't all that great unless you go to a Jr/Community College or very small University.
Looking at hill college. I thought about WPRA but I want to wait until I can focus on WPRA so I can go for rookie.
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| I went on a Full Ride rodeo scholarship to Fresno State University back in the day. |
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Location: Oklahoma & Texas | I enjoyed college rodeo in very much...great times spent with great people...i learned a lot in that atmosphere as we practiced together and so you have girls from all different styles to learn new stuff from..we hauled together and had a lot of fun..i don't remember the ground ever being bad but it's not manicured...if you want to compete in wpra rodeos it's a great place to go before that...and I don't know where you plan to go but I was in Oklahoma so it was prairie circuit and competition was tough but great to get you at that next level...a 1d horse would do good at that level so would a 2d horse...you go to big and small arenas..indoors and out...so lots of different venues...and we hauled all together so when we were done alot of times we'd find a jackpot or rodeo that wasn't college sanctioned and go run there that weekend too... |
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Location: Texas | College rodeo was a waste of time/money IMO.. You are better off just hauling to your own barrel races or ammy rodeos...
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| A friends daughter is extremely successful in college rodeo, making and placing in the college national finals this year. One week before she traveled to the finals, she placed well in the 1D at Wrapn3 Rose Palace race in June. She also makes very nice 1D runs and winning rodeo runs wherever she goes. I'm certain she's got rodeo scholarship money helping out at a major name brand college in Texas. I attended community college with a tidy rodeo scholarship, it definitely covered some gaps in the federal aid. I really enjoyed the experience of college rodeo, the atmosphere, the other kids, etc., ect. It was fun. Was it expensive? Very! I ended up dropping it, but I really had fun and it was a great learning experience for me. |
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Location: Oklahoma & Texas | At today's cost would I do it over again..idk.. i went 15 years ago...diesel was way cheaper and so was feed...that being said if you get a scholarship like I had yes it was pricey even then but I also didn't have to pay 16k a year for tuition cause my rodeo scholarship covered it...and my 1st year I lived in the dorms free except for food...i only paid for books in school and living expenses year 2 to 4....so i graduated without a mountain of debt ... it can be worth it if you get a good scholarship... |
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| The girls that are running and winning in our region are successful at the college, ammy, pro, and 1D level. But I think you will find that there are some horses that excel in rodeo but don't do as well at the big D barrel races and vice versa. I wouldn't say the ground is horrible, but it's rodeo ground, definitely not what you'll find at a big show. The expense probably varies from one college to the next depending on what kind of scholarships are available, what expenses are covered by the program, hauling distances (fuel costs), etc. Barrels at the college level is tough. In our region they probably average around 100 entries per rodeo, and they only take 10 back to the short-go. So you've got to have a pretty nice horse to be competitive. And you'll see big outdoor pens to small indoor pens, along with varying types of ground (sand, clay, dirt). |
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Location: Iowa | BarrelRacingChick - 2015-08-20 2:59 PM Ok so the thread about making horses your career got me thinking. Ok- college rodeo would your true 1D horse be competitive in college rodeo or is that another step up?? I think it depends on the region you run and how much effort you put in. Some regions are very very competitive and the girls can outrun WRPA runners at the pro rodeos, while other regions are not as tough. I ran the great plain region in 2012-2013 and my mare who had won our local 1D NBHA region, made the short go quite often. Each year is different!
I will agree with other posters, you have to be able to run on anything from 12-20 second patterns and from 100-20 degree weather with mud, water, rocks, hard pans, and even snow in the arena at times. Some places were very nice with heated stalls and indoor pens while other places we would tie out by a corn field…but that is rodeo for you.
The costs were pretty spendy and the hauls can be long, but the experience and the friends I made, I think were worth it for the short time I competed. You will find it interesting because some girls that accelerate in other settings may fail at college rodeo while others that struggle in other organizations may excel…that may all depend on if the horse can handle it, how involved the coach is or if the rider gets caught up in the after party scene.
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| Silly question but just curious...can anyone attending college (no matter age) be a part of the rodeo teams? |
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| scwebster - 2015-08-21 11:28 AM
Silly question but just curious...can anyone attending college (no matter age) be a part of the rodeo teams?
I want to say its something like your eligibility years are 6 years from the date of high school graduation?? |
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