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The Fresno State Bulldoggers nine rodeo team volition big the West Coast Region’s apical endowment astatine its location rodeo Friday, Nov. 8, astatine the Clovis Rodeo Grounds (748 Rodeo Dr.).
The team’s lone section lawsuit of the play opens astatine 8 a.m. with a slack circular that features enactment successful the 10 men’s and women’s events.
The evening last circular starts astatine 6 p.m., and wide admittance is $15 for tickets disposable online oregon successful person. Fresno State students with a field ID tin get tickets for $10, and the lawsuit is escaped to veterans and younker ages 5 and younger.
Fresno State men’s and women’s nine teams presently fertile archetypal and third, respectively, successful the portion aft the fall’s opening events hosted by Feather River College successful Quincy successful aboriginal October.
Two Bulldoggers pb their respective West Coast Region standings, Tyler Jones (team roping header) and Brayden Liberio (bull riding).
Two others fertile apical 3 – elder Wilson Redfeairn (steer wrestling, second; squad roping rodeo header, second) and sophomore Sage Pearce (breakaway roping, third).
The squad volition besides vie astatine Bakersfield College connected Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 9 and 10, to implicit the autumn schedule.
After their regular play finale IN May, the apical 2 men’s and women’s teams from each portion gain automatic invitations to the College National Finals Rodeo successful Casper, Wyoming, June 15 done 21.
Students ranked apical 3 successful their events tin besides suffice individually from the 11 regions crossed the nation.
Jones (of Friant) was a College National Finals Rodeo qualifier successful squad roping successful 2023 and 2024. Pearce (Santa Maria) besides competed astatine the aforesaid lawsuit successful 2024 successful breakaway roping arsenic did Maddie Biglow (Clements) successful goat tying.
The squad is coached by Uhuru Adem, a two-time, collegiate nationalist finals saddle bronc qualifier for Fresno State. He guided the men’s squad to a 13th-place decorativeness successful 2022, its highest decorativeness successful caller history. The women’s squad besides placed 19th successful 2022, and qualified again past play aft placing 2nd successful the region.
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 connected the club’s Facebook and Instagram pages.
