ProRodeo Sports News - October 16, 2020

IN HIS WORDS LOGAN MEDLIN Heeler follows in father’s footsteps to Finals S he (Kamryn) is awesome. It’s been a good year inside the arena, but none of it as good as the blessing we got having her. She’s been by far the best thing.

Navigating Insurance Can Be a Bumpy Ride. that the NFR is not at Las Vegas. I haven’t looked at it that way. Obviously, it’s different from what I thought it would be while I was growing up. But it’ll be cool to look back in 20 years knowing only 15 teams roped in Globe Life Field and I was one of them. can still pick his brain on what I need to work on. It’s definitely a team deal. I was born the first year he made it and I was 5 the second year he made it. I remember going out there and him practicing and in the grand entry practice getting to ride around with him in the arena before the rodeo started. They said I fell asleep every night before My good horse, Drago, 11, (2020 winner of the team roping heeling Purina Horse of the Year presented by AQHA) is just simple, he’s easy. He’s real forgiving, doesn’t take anything away from you. He’s always looking to please. I think that we (Crawford and I) had actually been friends before he and I started roping. He’s a guy that turns a lot of steers, rides good horses and sets steers up good for me to throw fast. As the heeler, it’s a lot more fun when you get to throw a lot. He turned a lot of steers this year. It allows me to get in a groove when I can throw often. I’m excited. Some people asked me if I’m bummed the rodeo ended.

Team roping heeler Logan Medlin is headed to his first Wrangler National Finals Rodeo. Well, his first as a competitor. Medlin’s father qualified for the Finals in 1991 and 1996, and Medlin attended both, first as a baby, then as a 5-year-old. Medlin finished the 2020 regular season ninth in the PRCA | RAMWorld Standings. The Tatum, N.M., cowboy earned $54,621 while roping with header Charly Crawford. Medlin, 29, nearly qualified in 2016 but finished 17th in the standings that season. He and Breely, his wife of seven years, had their first child this year, daughter, Kamryn.

It’s a sigh of relief to make the Finals. It’s been a goal of mine since I was a little kid. At the same time, I can’t be too satisfied, I still have goals I set for myself that I want to accomplish. It’s cool I can look back and say I met that goal of mine, but I have to stay motivated and hungry because if you’re not hungry and working toward that, somebody else is, and you’ll get passed by. It’s the truth. There are so many people that rope good these days that if you’re not going to be working as hard as you can at it, somebody else is. Obviously, there’s a group of guys that make the Finals every year, but then there are half a dozen spots that fluctuate every year and that’s proof of it, that so many guys rope good. You’re never guaranteed you’re going to make it again, so keep your head down and work at it if you want to come back. My dad (Jeff ) taught me everything. He’s who I looked up to when I first started. When I was a little kid, I wanted to be just like him. That’s what gave me the idea and drive to rodeo for a living because that’s what he did. I still call him up and talk with him about my roping. I

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