ProRodeo Sports News - September 20, 2019

“After my rookie year, I’ve just stuck to roping in the circuit,” said Young, who qualified for the College National Finals Rodeo as a senior at Northwestern Oklahoma State in Alva. “This season has gone pretty well. I have not had a huge weekend anywhere, but there have not been many weekends where I have not just placed. I have been more consistent this year.” Trey’s biggest payday of the 2019 season came on Oct. 7, 2018, when he earned $3,752 at the RAMBadland Circuit Finals Rodeo in Minot, N.D. “That got my season started off right,” he said. Success in the Badlands Circuit is not uncommon for Young. He won the circuit year-end title in 2017 and joined his dad as a circuit champ, as Doug won the average at the Badlands Circuit Finals Rodeo in 1993. “That was cool to win (in the Badlands

The performance of Trey inside the arena has come as no surprise to fellow tie-down roper Clint Kindred, who has known Trey for nearly 20 years. “The thing about Trey is he ropes his game all the time, he never changes for anybody,” Kindred said. “He’s never going to beat himself. He ropes well, and when he backs in the box everybody knows he has a chance of winning. He rides a really nice horse (Fozzy) that fits him, and when you match him and Fozzy together it makes everything better.” Despite his recent success, Trey is keeping things in perspective. “Everybody says making the NFR is the goal, and it is dang sure one of mine,” he said. “But, for right now, I’m a guy who needs to trust my horses, and I only have one right now. I need two to make a run at things. I enjoy rodeoing and I love roping calves and will keep roping in the circuit as long as I can.”

Circuit) like my dad,” Young said. “We have always practiced a lot, and it is something my dad and I enjoy doing. Dad trained a lot of my calf horses growing up and I have started some of my own.” Last season, Trey competed at the RAM National Circuit Finals Rodeo in Kissimmee, Fla., and fared well. He earned $8,624 and finished

third in the finals with a 10.1-second time behind four-time world champion Tuf Cooper (7.0 seconds) and 2016 world champ Tyson Durfey (9.3 seconds). “The short-term goal for me is to win as many

“I’m going to rope as much as I can so I can be rodeo sharp when the Badlands Circuit Finals come around.” – TREY YOUNG

Badlands Circuit titles as I can,” Trey said. “I dang sure would like to go back to Kissimmee and win a National Circuit Finals Rodeo championship.” The 2019 RAMBadlands Circuit Finals Rodeo is Oct. 4-6. “I’m a guy who likes to practice and I’m most confident when I get a lot of practice in,” Trey said. “I’m going to rope as much as I can so I can be rodeo sharp when the Badlands Circuit Finals come around.” Trey’s horsepower is provided by Fozzy, 11. Fozzy was named the Badlands Circuit Tie-Down Roping Horse of the Year in 2017- 18. “This is my third year hauling him, and he’s been my main money winner all year,” Trey said. “We bought him as a 3-year-old in the Rapid City (S.D.) winter sale. Fozzy is a horse my dad and I made together. He started him a little bit and I kind of finished him and hauled him to the rodeos. Fozzy scores and gets to stuff as good as anything I have ever ridden. He gives you a shot to win money at a lot of rodeos.”

Peggy Gander photo Miss Rodeo North Dakota Cassidy Rasmusson, left, hands tie-down roper Trey Young his buckle for winning the 2017 Badlands Circuit year-end title.

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