It was boots and chaps and cowboy hats and the roar of the weekend crowd, this past Saturday and Sunday at Alex Fraser Park. The northern region’s young rodeo athletes competed for spots in the upcoming provincial championships. Those, too will be hosted in Quesnel. The Junior athletes (Grades 6-8) compete May 20-22 and the Senior athletes (Grades 9-12) compete June 8-10, and they are in need of wildly applauding audiences, like the ones who cheered for Clinton’s Cade Allison seen here in his steer wrestling event. (Karen Powell photo)

It was boots and chaps and cowboy hats and the roar of the weekend crowd, this past Saturday and Sunday at Alex Fraser Park. The northern region’s young rodeo athletes competed for spots in the upcoming provincial championships. Those, too will be hosted in Quesnel. The Junior athletes (Grades 6-8) compete May 20-22 and the Senior athletes (Grades 9-12) compete June 8-10, and they are in need of wildly applauding audiences, like the ones who cheered for Clinton’s Cade Allison seen here in his steer wrestling event. (Karen Powell photo)

They call the thing high school rodeo

Athletes Grades 6-12 competed in Quesnel for zone rodeo championships

With a history of professional rodeo athletes, past and present, Quesnel is coming out of the chutes of the pandemic hanging on and covering their beasts, these days. Some of those past athletes are mentoring the next generation, and it’s making a difference in youth numbers.

Former pros Steve Lloyd and Steve Thiessen are holding a breakaway roping and tie-down roping clinic, heading into the Junior provincials. Our city hosts that event this weekend, then the Senior provincials in June.

For more on this, see Page 7 of this week’s paper.

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