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here is the place to find out whats going on in the sport of Womens Bull Riding. If anyone has info to be added to this
page e-mail me @ littleladybullrider@hotmail.com
I don't always go to my brothers rodeos, but I did last saturday. And what I saw was the most girls at one Jr even that
I have seen in the past three years. In my first year of rodeo one of the best youth associations aroud added a "ladys bull
riding" Shylo Hasting, and Lacy Rice rode with me, some times we even had young Lexie Brown with us. It only lasted for another
year, Shylo and I hurt, Lacy retired. There is another well knowen youth association in northeast Oklahoma that welcomes girl
to ride with the boys. It was Lexie that started this weekend event at the JBR in Kellyvill OK. Her ride did not last long
on the paint steer, her hand was still in the rope. She fell under the steer and he walked all over her. Lexie's hand popped
free and she got up. She is tuff. When the last event came around, the 21 & under bull rideing, every there knew that
there was two young women behind the chutes, ready to get on. Kaylynn Pellam, walked all over the guys last year. The tall
Blond is quiet. I could not see her in the chute very well. She came out on a big gray and white bull who staed close to the
fence. How she kept with him I do not know, it was a wild ride. Kaylynn was slung about, but she was on him when the buzzer
sounded. The other young woman there was Blaire Campbell, whos pritty smile had all the guys going crazy. Blair is a friendly
girl, who takes all the guys hanging around her rather well. Her bull was loaded twards the end. I got on the fence so that
I could see well. She was all smiles. His was a big brown and white paint. She managed to hold on that first jump, but the
ride did not last long. The bull was soon bucking along with out her. But at the end of the night all three had one thing
in comon, with the smiles on their faces it was plane to see. They are doing what they love.
Jocelyn Martin Dec,2008
Here are some e-mails that have been sent to me by the ladys of the WRF.
"...I know alot of girls we can contact. It has been very hard to get many of the girls organized. I am just
another bullrider trying to find opportunities for myself and others to ride. There are people out there willing to support
us..."
"...One thin that I and some other girls have found is; that things usually work out better when we are hosted in a women's
section of a men's event..."
"...What I and some other girls are trying to do is find events that will be willing to host a girls section and at the
same time we are trying to raise awareness that there are skilled female riders out there and draw interest to women in the
sport and find funds to help support female roughstock riders. We don't neccessarily wan t to be another WPRA we just
want to see girls be able to get into shows and then be able to GET TO THE SHOW AND RIDE.We are also stressin fair treatment
of girls riding. Hoping to get contractor to recognize that they don't need to bring us steers but that it is not fair for
them to use us as crash test dumbies every show either..."
From Lorett
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Here is something you may or may not
know.
High School Rodeo will not let girls
on bucking stock, nore will college Rodeo. Why I really don't know, but I have met a few girl who have had to deal with it.
and here is a little on what they had to say about it.
"High school rodeo sucks" says Alyssa
Seigworth.. aka "Lil Sis" ".. i mean i ride it and all but they won't support females in riding bulls and they say they go
by prca rules and they don't because prca says they do allow females to ride and they just never had one to ride for them..
some girl never delt with it for a number
of resions. out of school when they got started, did not care, there school had no rodeo team, and I was home schooled. but
wether or not it has cut into your own life it is still not right. I don't know how I would take it, make an outstanding run
in barrels, or have an amazing time in goat tieing only to have to sit back and wach the guys do what it was I wanted to most.
the few time I had to sit out and wach my brother ride ate me up. and I could see resion in it part of the time. but no rodeo
association can give me any good resion to keep a female off a bull or bronc. it's not like a girl will get hurt when a guy
won't. I've landed in some ways that would have had a guy crying. and a bull will stomp or gore one just as willingly as the
other.
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Injurie Report
Dee Dee Craword was hurt at an event in CA. Going head to head with the bull. Co founder of the WRF Lorett Guzman-Mill
told me in a e-mail that Deedee is doing fine. And only a few after surgery she was back to riding horses.
Jamie Hooker aka J, broke her arm in three places. Jay and Dee Dee are also Co-founfers of the WRF.
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