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At LCCC, rodeo is all about family.
If Tiff didn’t rodeo and these kids didn’t rodeo, with me being retired from riding broncs, bareback horses now, we wouldn’t have anything to do in the summer time.
We are constantly recruiting so I’ve kinda been recruiting my own children along the way.
I’ve already kinda got it planned out. Since it’s a community college, it’s only two years here so I’ll go two years here and two years back in South Dakota.
It kind of started with my mom, because I would go with her to all the pro rodeos and the amateur rodeos when I was little and I was always like, wow that’s really cool, I wanna be just like her.
We wouldn’t want to do anything else with our money than support our kids rodeoin’.
We make sure that they practice and they have a good work ethic before they come because that’s what they’re looking for in the students that come to LCCC is a good work ethic that they want to try, that they’re willing to put a lot of themselves into it.
They’re very much involved in the rodeo. I’ve always, I’ve always, just … I grew up with it.
That boy constantly has a rope in his hand and he’s constantly roping something. He’s either roping us, he’s roping our dog, he’s roping the bale.
*laughing*
I’ve been very blessed with two kids that love to do it and we all have this in common and we can do this as a family.
So it’s fun hauling Blair and Jorry around to the rodeos and me getting to enter the team roping with Blair some and Tiff and Jorry running barrels it’s just, it’s a blast.
No matter what, everybody is there to help everybody else out.
It’s just, it’s just a family affair.
Sometimes they’re a little annoying, but that’s like any family.
Yeah it is a way of life. You … I don’t know it’s really hard to put into words exactly what it means to me, but everything that I have either directly or indirectly I’ve gotten because of rodeo.
I’m Lisa Murphy with this Laramie County Community College Spotlight.