ProRodeo Sports News - May 26, 2023

SHORT ROUND

Saddle bronc riders Tanner Aus, left, and Logan Hay, right, watch the action during Round 10 of the 2022 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo presented by Teton Ridge in Las Vegas. Hay will be out of action for several weeks after hurting his right arm at the Redding (Calif.) Rodeo May 18. PRCA ProRodeo photo by Hailey Rae

Logan Hay out after suffering arm injury in Redding On the Sideline

T hings didn’t go according to plan for Wrangler National Finals Rodeo saddle bronc rider Logan Hay, May 18, at the Redding (Calif.) Rodeo. Hay was aboard Brookman Rodeo’s Lonesome Joy Ride, and he was bucked off before the eight-second whistle and that’s when his problems began. “I had surgery (May 19) in Redding,” said Hay, 26. “It was supposed to be a 40-minute surgery and it ended up being a three hour surgery, but everything went good. I got plates and screws in the tip of elbow on my right arm (free arm). Then I had to get my UCL repaired. “The horse hit me in the head and then on my (right arm). I had a (mild) concussion as well, but my arm is the worst of it. My saddle also fell and hit me in the arm and then he (the horse) hit me in the head.” Tommy John Surgery, more formally known as ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) reconstruction, is used to repair a torn ulnar collateral ligament inside the elbow. It is commonly done for pitchers in Major League Baseball. “It kind of depends on how rehab goes,” Hay said. “The bone is for sure going to take a minimum of six weeks, so it is going to take

anywhere between six weeks to three months. I have two weeks that I have to stay in this sling cast thing, and I will get that off and then I can start doing rehab on my own. I have some places up here in Wildwood, Alberta, that I have been going to that helped me, so I will be doing that. “My goal is to be ready for the Fourth of July. I’m going to do everything I can to be ready by then. Hopefully my healing goes accordingly, and I can do that. If not, we will just have to keep rolling with it.” Hay, who was getting aboard Lonesome Joy Ride for the first time, is 17th in the PRCA | RAM World Standings with $37,111. “Hopefully I will not be out too long,” Hay said. “This (injury) just comes with rodeoing. Last year I had surgery on my (left) ankle after I broke it in Mercedes, Texas, in March, and I still ended third in the world. This is just something that comes with it, and it is unfortunate.” Hay made his Wrangler NFR debut in 2022, finishing third in the world standings with $339,401. He earned $199,960 at the NFR in Vegas, placing in six rounds and winning Rounds 5, 6 and 7. He finished second in the NFR average with 863 points on 10 head.

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