PRORODEO Sports News - March 27, 2026 Digital Edition

TEAM ROPING WORLD CHAMPION HEELER JAKE LONG “I think it’s a once-in-a lifetime deal. Like Andrew said, I don’t even know that we ever thought to make that a goal in life. Our goal is to always win a world title and for other sport ing events you win your championship and you go to the White House. But being rodeo guys, that’s not something we knew to have as a goal. I just feel extremely blessed for the timing to work out to get to meet him. It was everything you could imagine and more.”

SADDLE BRONC RIDING WORLD CHAMPION STATLER WRIGHT “It was awesome, such a cool experience. I’ll never be able to top this. I just got to meet and talk with the most famous man on the plan et. For the PRCA to get us out here and meet him, it’s second to none. I’m just thankful they brought us out here and hopefully we get to do it again next year.”

TIE-DOWN ROPING WORLD CHAMPION RILEY WEBB “It’s such an honor. I’m kind of just mind blown and trying to take it all in. It’s so cool that all of us get to come here and spend time with everybody and get to see part of our world that we don’t get to see every day. We get to tell everybody (here) about our lives and our world, agriculture and the sport of rodeo that we get to do and love.”

STEER ROPING WORLD CHAMPION COLE PATTERSON “It’s an honor to be here. I think huge for the sport of rodeo. We can this thing up and take it places it’s never been before. Rodeo is growing faster than any other sport, I feel like. This will do nothing but acceler

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