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INFR Spotlights 2002
INFR Champions 2002
INFR Champions 2002 Kevin
Langevin Bareback Walker
Small Steer Wrestling Beau
Michaels Saddle Bronc
Garrison Begay Calf Roping Nicole
Welsh Romo Barrel Racing
Marco Sells and Lucius Sells Team Roping
Devyn Dennison
Ladies Breakaway Rick Whiteman Bull Riding
All Around Cowboy for INFR is
Clarence Gilham
All Around Cowgirl for INFR is
Nicole Welsh Romo
Team Trophy for INFR 2002
Navajo Nation Rodeo Cowboys Association
Way to go NNRCA!!!!
INFR 2002 Scholarship Winner?
We are trying to find out
INFR or anyone who has
this information please
contact us
Hats Off!! To All INFR
contestants who qualified from
your respected regions. Each and every one of you, your
horses, and your families all deserve a round of applause
for getting to INFR this year.
INFR Champions picture below
Picture provided to Indian Rodeo News
by T Slash D Rodeo Photos
Special
Thanks to T/D Rodeo Photos for sending us this picture taken at the awards banquet Sunday evening after the finals.
To contact T/D Rodeo Photos call 406-450-0165. T/D Rodeo Photos
were the official INFR photographer's this year.
Well Indian Rodeo Fans, this year's INFR
held
last weekend in San Jancinto California was a
great success. With the warm weather and covered
arena, watching the daily performances was a nice
time. As you browse through the daily results and
view the pictures, you will see how sunny and
pleasant it was to attend INFR at the Soboba casino.
Sitting in the audience this year at INFR were
Hollywood Native American movie stars
Floyd Westerman
and Sonny Skyhawk.
Singing the American National Anthem
was a
Navajo lady who sang the song "beautifully"
in her Native Navajo language. Singing the Canadian National Anthem
was a young girl
from Alberta who did a "superb" job.
During Sunday's final Grand Entry, Philip Whiteman Jr. blessed INFR with a prayer
song, and Philip sang his song in his Native
language, blessing the contestants, the dedicated
stock, everyone involved in producing INFR 2002
and all of us who were in attendance at INFR this
year.
Well known family names like the "Bruisedhead"
name, were represented this year, with Robert, Wright, Henny, Dexter, Clinton, and Dana.
This year INFR witnessed a father and son who
competed against each other in the Bull Riding
event, Shawn Best and his son Shawn Best Jr.
Shawn Sr. who represented the Eastern Indian
Rodeo Association of Florida and Shawn Jr. came
from the Western States Indian Rodeo Association,
Shawn Sr.'s Uncle Larry Condon, (well known veteran
Indian Champion Bull Rider) who could not attend
this year, is very proud of his nephew and Shawn Jr.
for their hard work in getting to INFR in the bull riding.
Rez Dog Rodeo Team was represented by Tess
Ducheaneaux
of Florida. Tess who is only 12 years old,
and sure
to be back at INFR in the future, her horse sustained injuries
and will be out on "rest" for the next couple of months. Ashlee Strom (who is the granddaughter of INFR
president Mel Sampson) her horse also sustained
injuries, and her Grandma "Betty" said they'll
give her horse a rest and see how he does for
next year.
All in all, INFR was a success this year, though as you
can see by the pictures, attendance was low, but INFR
is scheduled to return to California next year,
so everyone can start planning their conferences
and vacations around the event.
Indian Rodeo News
would like to thank Robert Salgado Sr.,
Chairman of Soboba
Band of Luiseno Indians for hosting INFR this year.
It was very pleasant to sit and watch INFR in the warm
sunny weather, and it did not get "too" cold during
the evening performances.
Special Thanks to Miss NNRCA, Miss Seminole Tribe
of Florida, and the other "beautiful" visiting rodeo
royalty who attended INFR this year. All of you ladies
looked "great" out there, and we appreciate you!
For those of you who "like many" could not
attend
but would like to still order a "T-Shirt" "INFR Jacket"
and other merchandise, a company called "Way Out
West", provided the merchandise for INFR.
As soon as we can confirm that they will be
taking order's for INFR 2002 we will post
their website info, at this time they do not
have INFR listed on their site, so we'd like
to give them a moment to catch up, before
you all bombard them with orders.
Feel free to sign our guest book, we understand
the NNRCA and EIRA are already in their
2003 rodeo season, and we are working
hard to provide you with rodeo entry information
and their rodeo results. Indian Rodeo News will
continue to cover all "Indian Rodeos" and our goal
is to get as much rodeo information out to our readers,
knowing that we all cannot be at every single Indian
rodeo held each weekend so we'd like to provide
our readers with as much detailed information as
we can. At this time, we are looking for reporters
who would like to work with us in providing up
to date rodeo news, including pictures, no matter
how good those pictures are we need them!!!
In this year's rodeo program, INFR
featured past World Champions.
We were given permission by INFR to
share these stories with out readers.
Dale Bird
Cut Bank, MT
"Set your goals and stick to them" is the
advice Dale Bird
from Cut Bank, Mont., gives to the younger generation.
Bird won the Indian National Finals Bull Riding title on
two occasions, in 1978, and 1980. He says the three main
ingredients that made him successful were being mentally
alert, staying physically fit, and having self-confidence.
"You must react to the bull", he said. "It must be a
re-flex
if you think about it you are too late".
Bird has retired from the rodeo arena for ten years
and makes his living ranching. He is also
an independent contractor. He is married
to Brenda Bird and has two children, Richard and Mandi.
Dale comes from a rodeo family and tried to encourage
his son Richard to become a timed event cowboy. He did
not want his son to go through the pain and physical stress
he had endured on his body. However, as Richard grew
up, it was clear that he would follow in his father's foot
steps. With his father's help and advice, Richard also
became an INFR Champion Bull Rider in 1994. The
advice that Bird gives to his son and other up and coming
bull riders, is to not over use your free arm and to be
aggressive with your feet.
Bird would like to see the crowds at the INFR get the same
sort of feeling that a cowboy would get during an adrenaline
rush of a bull ride. If somebody can get the motor running
at the INFR, there will be big crowds. Dale is a strong
supporter of rodeo in general, but the INFR has a special
place in his heart. He hopes that the INFR will become
a rodeo every cowboy can be proud to be a part of and
feel as honored as he does to be a past Indian National
Finals Champion
Spike Guardipee
Pryor, Montana
With an accomplishment list as long as Spike
Guardipee's,
it's safe to say he's one of the most dangerous cowboys
competing today. Famed for his numerous Indian National
Finals Rodeo championships, Blackfeet native Guardipee is
one of the best known Indian cowboys. Anyone who knows
anything about rodeo has heard of Guardipee, and most will
say that he is one of the most naturally talented and gifted
cowboys competing.
The 40 year old cowboy competes in all three men's timed
events, Calf Roping, Team Roping, and Steer Wrestling,
and is skilled in all three. His credentials speak for them
selves. He won the prestigious INFR All-Around
championship in 1990, 91, and 98, the INFR
Steer Wrestling title in 1991, the INFR
Calf Roping championship in 1990 and 96,
the INFR Team Roping title in 1981.
Gardipee was also the Montana Pro Rodeo
Circuit Champion All-Around Cowboy
in 1983, 88, and also won the Team
Roping in 1983. He won the Northern
Rodeo Association Team Roping title in
1988, and the Calf Roping, and All-Around in 1987.
Not only is Guardipee a talented all-around cowboy, but
also has one other thing to be proud of. He has passed
down his rodeo talent to his son J.C. who also competes
in all three timed events. Guardipee and J.C. both
competed last year at the INFR, Guardipee competed in
the Steer Wrestling and J.C. in the Calf Roping.
Carole Jackson-Hoylan
Casa Grande, Arizona
In 1976, 77, and 79, Carole
Jackson-Hoylan, won the Indian
National Finals Rodeo Barrel Racing title when she was
just 11, 12, and 14 years old. As competitive as Hoylan
was in the rodeo arena at such a young age, she has never
stopped striving to be competitive in the arena of life.
At a young age her father instilled in her that rodeo comes
second and education comes first. He taught her that rodeo
is great, but it can't be your entire livelihood. Hoylan feels
blessed because her father pushed her to get through school
and she is very grateful that he did.
She graduated with her bachelor's degree in Communications in
1987. She owns her own public relations firm, and she is currently
working on her master's degree. Along with these responsibilities,
she is also the wife of top All-Around hand Ed Hoylan, and mother of
Faith and Dean.
Hoylan is still competing in Barrel Racing, and has also
picked up Break-Away Roping. However, with her
youngest just being 5 months old, her career, and school,
she is having a difficult time dedicating herself to the sport.
She also tries as often as possible to go and support her
husband whenever her schedule permits.
Growing up in a rodeo family and having a rodeo family
of her own, Hoylan believes it is a benefit. She sees rodeo as
a sport that involves the whole family, an educational process
that gives a sense of belonging, and teaches responsibility
both in and out of the arena.
What she hopes to do for her children and hopes others
will stress is to always be a role model for your children
and provide a good road for them.
"Rodeo should be enjoyable and fun to do" she said. "When
an individual is blessed with natural talent I hope
they can use it to the best of their ability. Parent's
should try to bring out their children's talents
but also let it blossom at their own pace".
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