The Fresno State Bulldoggers nine rodeo squad volition nonstop six men’s and women’s student-athletes against the nation’s champion astatine the College National Finals Rodeo, Sunday, June 15 to Saturday, June 21, in Casper, Wyoming.
ESPN3 volition broadcast the events unrecorded each nighttime from the Ford Wyoming Center starting June 17. A follow-up amusement recapping the lawsuit volition aerial connected ESPNU astatine 5 p.m. Aug. 18 and astatine noon Aug. 22.
After a runner-up squad decorativeness successful the West Coast Region, the men’s squad ranks 23rd nationally and volition marque its 3rd travel arsenic a squad nether seventh-year caput manager Uhuru Adem.
In the national idiosyncratic rankings, inferior Tyler Jones (of Friant) is the top-ranked Fresno State jock with a No. 3 ranking successful the squad roping header play standings and a No. 22 ranking successful the all-around category.
Jones volition besides vie successful saddle-bronc riding aft helium topped the region’s squad roping header standings, and besides ranked 3rd successful the all-around and 4th successful saddle bronc.
Sophomore Tanner Kerr (Red Bluff) stood 11th successful the all-around rankings and archetypal successful the region. He volition vie successful tie-down roping aft starring the region, arsenic good arsenic ranking No. 7 successful squad roping and No. 8 successful steer wrestling.
Fellow Fresno State newcomer and inferior Brayden Liberio (Caliente) besides ranked ninth successful the nation’s bull riding standings.
Senior Wilson Redfeairn (Bakersfield) volition vie successful squad roping aft ranking 3rd successful the portion successful the header category.
Jones competed arsenic a freshman and sophomore astatine the College National Finals Rodeo, portion the different 3 men’s entries volition marque their lawsuit debuts.
Two women volition besides vie — inferior Emma Jensen (Prather) and sophomore Sage Pearce (Santa Maria) — aft they ranked 2nd successful the portion rankings.
Both besides fertile apical 15 nationally — Jensen successful tube racing (10th) and Pearce successful breakaway roping (14th).
Pearce competed astatine the aforesaid lawsuit past twelvemonth and helped Fresno State gain a women’s squad invitation and No. 17 nationalist ranking astatine the extremity of the 2024 regular season.
This year, the women’s squad was 1 presumption shy of a College National Finals Rodeo instrumentality with a No. 3 decorativeness successful the West Coast regular play rankings down Cal Poly (No. 1) and Cuesta College (No. 2).
Students who are ranked apical 3 successful their events from the combined play results automatically suffice for the collegiate nationals from the 11 regions crossed the nation.
The Bulldoggers are coached by Uhuru Adem, a two-time, collegiate nationalist finals saddle bronc qualifier for Fresno State. Under his guidance, the men’s squad posted a No. 13 decorativeness successful 2022, and the women’s squad placed 19th that season.
The men’s squad besides placed 17th nationally astatine the lawsuit successful his archetypal play successful 2019 and featured Colton Campbell, the all-around class champion and tie-down roping reserve champion.
The programme started successful 1946 and officially became a nine successful 1949 — the aforesaid twelvemonth the archetypal collegiate nationalist finals were held successful San Francisco.More accusation connected the squad is disposable astatine its Facebook and Instagram pages.
