PRORODEO Sports News - August 23, 2024

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Find the winners from the Ellensburg (Wash.) Rodeo and the Walla Walla (Wash.) Frontier Days in 2023. Cowboys or cowgirls who won more than one event at both rodeos appear once for each win. Names may be forward, backward, horizontal, vertical, or diagonal. September in Sight 1. Find the winners from Ellensburg, Wash.: BB: Keenan Hayes SW: J.D. Struxness TR: Kaleb Driggers/Junior Nogueira SB: Stetson Wright TD: John Douch GB: Brittany Pozzi Tonozzi BR: T Parker 2. Find the winners from Walla Walla, Wash.: BB: Cole Franks/Dean Thompson SW: Tyler Waguespack/Jace Melvin TR: Coy Rahlmann/Jonathan Torres SB: Kade Bruno/Wyatt Casper TD: Shad Mayfield GB: Megan McLeod-Sprague BR: Josh Frost

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Look at Rising Stars TALON ELSHERE Family trees in PRORODEO are easy to find. There are countless cowboys who have followed their family into the sport. There’s the Etbauers, the Jones’, the Coopers, and the Feilds’ just to name a few. Saddle bronc rider Talon Elshere of Hereford, S.D., is aiming to add to his fam ily’s legacy in PRORODEO. Elshere, 22, is the son of saddle bronc rider J.J. Elshere, a four-time

UP& in 2012-14, and 2020. Talon’s younger brother, Thayne, 19, also is sixth in the 2024 PRCA Per mit Saddle Bronc Standings with $28,195. “My dad took us rodeoing all around when we were little,” Talon said. “We always had a pretty good teacher for us. He did a good job of getting us to figure out what we need to know and how to do it, so I can’t thank him enough.” Talon, fresh off competing in the College National Finals Rodeo in June for Casper (Wyo.) College, is find ing his footing in PRORODEO. Elshere has earned nearly $30,000 this season and is coming off strong performance at the Farm-City Pro Rodeo in Hermiston, Ore., earlier this month. He had an 88.5-point ride on Calgary Stampede’s Dandy Delight to earn a $4,826 check. COMING qualifier for the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo in 2006, 2008, 2009, and 2010. The elder Elshere finished a career-best third in the world standings in 2008 and 2009. Talon’s cousin, saddle bronc rider Cole Elshere also is a four-time qualifier for the NFR

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