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Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, June 13, 2013
Four local teens qualify for National rodeo finals
These Mount Ayr Community high school students participated in Iowa High School State Finals Rodeo:
(L-R) Ashton Johnson, Logan Wimer, Morgan Quick, Cody Stackhouse and Riley Weehler. Wimer, Quick, Stackhouse and Weehler all advanced to Nationals.>br?
PHOTO BY TF EVENT PHOTOGRAPHY
Four Ringgold county teens have qualified for the National High School Finals rodeo after competition at the state rodeo
finals held June 7-9 in Waterloo. National qualifiers include Riley WEEHLER, first place in team roping and fourth in calf
roping; Morgan QUICK, second in cutting; Logan WIMER, third place in cutting; and Cody STACKHOUSE, third place in steer
wrestling. Also competing at state was Ashton JOHNSON. All are students at Mount Ayr Community high school.
WEEHLER and his partner Payden DAWSON were crowned state champions in team roping. Competitors accumulate points from 10
qualifying rodeos through out the year to earn a spot in the state finals. The top four in each event after the finals will
represent Team Iowa at the 65th annual National High School Rodeo Finals in Rock Springs, Wyoming July 14-20. More than 1,500
contestants from 41 states, five Canadian provinces and Australia comprise the National Finals Rodeo,
the largest rodeo in the world. Participants will compete for more than $200,000 in prizes and over $350,000 in college
scholarships. Contestants must finish in the top 20 in their events based upon their combined times/scores in the
first two rounds to advance to Saturday evening final round. National champions will be determined based on their
three-round combined scores. Saturday's championship performance will be televised nationally as part of the
"CinchTown Tour" series on RFD-TV. Live broadcasts of each performance will also air online at NHSRATV.com.
For more information, visit NHSFR.org
State rodeo champions Riley WEEHLER (left) and his partner Payden DAWSON won the state championship in the team
roping competition in the Iowa high school rodeo finals held recently in Waterloo. They now advance to the national
rodeo finals in Wyoming in July. WEEHLER is the son of Neil and Jill WEEHLER of Maloy.
Photographs courtesy of Mount Ayr Record-News
Transcriptions by Sharon R. Becker, June of 2013
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