ProRodeo Sports News, June 29, 2018

INJURIES

Back inAction

Bull rider Roscoe Jarboe, who won Round 2 at the 2016 Wrangler NFR with an 88.5-point ride on Wayne Vold Rodeo’s Cooper’s Comet, recently returned to action this season after suffering a back injury March 21. Jarboe is trying to qualify for his third consecutive Wrangler NFR. PRCA ProRodeo photo by Dan Hubbell

Rogers, Jarboe, Hughes return from injuries

BY TRACY RENCK Q ualifying for the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo takes plenty of practice, skill, some luck, and in some cases overcoming significant injuries. Team roping header Erich Rogers, the reigning world champion; bull rider Roscoe Jarboe, a two-time Wrangler NFR qualifier (2016-17) and up-and-coming tie-down roper Westyn Hughes are dealing with the latter. All three returned around the second week of June and are trying to make up for lost time – which they can do with the lucrative Cowboy Christmas run on the horizon. “The plan for us is to catch as many steers as we can and hopefully get back to the NFR,” Rogers said. As of June 22, Rogers had competed in the Reno (Nev.) Rodeo, Pleasant Grove, Utah; Alamosa, Colo., and Santa Fe, N.M. Rogers tore the medial collateral ligament (MCL), anterior cruciate

ligament (ACL) and meniscus in his right knee March 3 while steer wrestling at a non-sanctioned event. He had surgery on the knee March 30. “I have never had to deal with an injury like this,” said Rogers, who is competing with a knee brace. “It is a little tough. I’m not in competition status like everybody else has been. They have been rodeoing, and I have been off for several months and I’m just getting back into riding horses. It feels a little different, but with a little bit of time we will be fine. I don’t have to do anything different because of the injury.” This season, Rogers is roping with Clint Summers. Rogers and Cory Petska roped together starting in 2013 and culminated with both winning world championships last season. Rogers was 51st in the June 25 PRCA | RAMWorld Standings with $13,306. Summers is 14th in the standings. “I’m lucky and blessed to have a young heeler who has put all his heart and effort into rodeo, and he wants to make it to Vegas (to the NFR),” Rogers said. “He has motivated me to compete and get back at it and be the best I can and try to help him get to his first NFR. When

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