ProRodeo Sports News - February 8, 2019

IN HIS OWNWORDS: JORDAN KETSCHER BIG MARCH COULD PAY OFF FOR ROPER March 2019 will be one of the biggest months in ProRodeo

summer didn’t go as planned. I had a pretty good winter and the spring was awesome. I started the summer good, but it didn’t finish well. It was something to learn from and learn what I needed to improve on. My tie-down roping horse, Mouse, got hurt, and I bounced around the Fourth of July riding different horses. It threw it off just a tick because you’ve been riding that same horse through the winter and spring. I’ll get back on him this spring. I’m team roping with Colton Campbell and I’m riding his calf-roping horse, and Seth Hopper sent me with a horse, so I’ve got two good ones to ride. I’m ready to get after it. I qualified to compete at Kissimmee in team roping in 2016 and made it in tie-down roping the last two years. I traveled to Kissimmee frommy house in California one year, and it dang sure is a trek. But it’s neat. That’s how we cowboys are so fortunate, we get to see every part of the country and we get to enjoy that aspect of it while we get to make money. My dad rode through college and roped too. I never got on bareback horses. I rode calves and steers growing up, but that’s where it ended. You figure out it’s not for you and I wanted to take roping more seriously. It works out to when I’m home, stuff needs to be done. Of course, stuff needs to be done on the ranch all the time, and my brother, Blaine, and mom, LeeAnn, take care of that. It kind of allows me to be able to be gone for the rodeos. On Jan. 1, I got engaged to my fiancée Mary Glenn. She was surprised. She was happy. It was a pretty special moment.

I t seems like the end of February and (all of ) March is huge for rodeo because so much counts, especially with it counting for the world standings this year. A guy has to be out here among everybody who’s rodeoing and try to get into those rodeos and take advantage of those big opportunities that you get to go to. It’s dang-sure exciting. You can’t ask to rope for that much money and be disappointed about it. And to be able to count it’s a season-changer. If it goes your way, it could make dreams come true. Being the first year that Houston counts andThe American, everybody is wondering – hoping to have that winter – to see what somebody could have won after the winter. It’s going to be interesting because so much can happen and there are so many variables in our sport. Last year started off awesome, but I had some stuff happen during the summer to where it dang-sure slowed me down. Not that it’s an excuse, but history, and Jordan Ketscher has a chance to cash in. The tie-down roper and team roping heeler from Squaw Valley, Calif., is scheduled to compete at The American, RodeoHouston, the RAM National Circuit Finals Rodeo and Rodeo Austin (Texas), all in the month of March. Ketscher, 29, who was 17th in tie-down roping in the Feb. 8 PRCA | RAM World Standings, is looking for his first qualification to the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo, and the next month and a half could play a key role in that.

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