ARENA — Winter Issue

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THE ROAD TO THE MISS RODEO AMERICAN PAGEANT

By Jordan Maldonado

Unexpected. That’s the one word Jackie Scarry, Miss Rodeo California 2022, uses to describe her reign as the current Miss Rodeo California.

Not in a bad way though. The Redding, California native found unexpected friendships, took unexpected adventures and had unexpected life-changing moments along the way. Like every rodeo queen’s journey, Scarry’s story is a unique one. Not growing up in a rodeo family meant paving the way for herself as a rodeo queen without many people outside of her family being in her corner.

“My journey started when I met my first rodeo queen in 2004, so I was about seven or eight,” Scarry said. “She was our local Miss Redding Rodeo. That kind of just spurred the desire to want to be a rodeo queen, but I didn’t compete for my first title until 2009, when I ran for the Red Bluff Junior Round-Up Junior

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JOHN KING

A KID FROM GEORGIA, JUST TRYING TO MAKE IT BIG IN THE COUNTRY MUSIC WORLD.

By Brianna Garcia

“This last week was our last round. We’ve been touring since late spring,” King said. “We’ve done everything from fairs, festivals, rodeos to bigger headlining support slots for Blake Shelton over the past year.”

Traveling with Blake Shelton, King was lucky enough to make his way to Cheyenne Frontier Days for the first time. “Forever one of my favorite shows. It was such a memorable night,” King said. “25,000 screaming fans, they were an unbelievable crowd. It goes from a rodeo to a massive music festival within an hour or two. It was really cool and the people were great.”

King has recently begun to host campfire sessions around Wyoming and Montana. His most recent one was in Dubois, Wyoming. “It was a lot of fun. A cool way to close out the year,” King said. “Dubois is awesome.

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RASMUSSEN FROM BARRELMAN TO TV PERSONALITY

By Brianna Garcia

Flint Rasmussen is known for his work as the entertainer of the Professional Bull Riders, but lately he’s been taking off the face paint and exchanging it for a sport coat, starched jeans and a cowboy hat.

“It’s been kind of nice to dip my toe in TV commentary a little bit,” Rasmussen said. “I’ve done radio, talk show hosting, all of that for years. In my mind, it’s as much a part of who I am and what I do as the in-arena stuff. The clowning stuff.”

Along with being the eight-time Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association clown of the year and eight-time Wrangler National Final Rodeo Barrelman, Rasmussen has also hosted a live talk show called Outside the Barrel at the NFR.

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HAILEY RAE PHOTOGRAPHER FOCUSED ON MORE

By Brianna Garcia

At just 25 years old, she’s been doing photography for the PRCA for just three years and was recently chosen to photograph her first National Finals Rodeo.

“One of my best friends actually made it to the NFR in the bronc riding for the first time this year,” Rae said. “So, that is what really drove me. I was like ‘okay, well Cade made it and we’ve always said we’re going to go together. So I at least need to try. I can’t just not apply. It would be really cool if we could go together in the first year.’”

After applying for a chance to photograph at the NFR for the first time, Rae continued to photograph rodeo as well as other events like weddings, western lifestyle and livestock shows. “I applied, then I kind of forgot about it. I knew the day they were meeting but I was driving to rodeos and I’d forgotten about it,” Rae said. “I got a call from the media office and so I took an exit off the interstate, pulling my computer out because I thought they needed a picture for a web story. So, I answered the phone and it was a different woman than Terry and she told me that I had been selected and I was like ‘what?’ Like I have no idea, it didn’t even phase me that that was what they wanted.”

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Rae started photography in high school for 4-H. “I didn’t grow up with any kind of ranching or rodeo background, like at all. But I went to my first rodeo when I was eight and I told my mom that I don’t know how, but someday I’m going to be down there with those guys and do that,” Rae said. “She was just kind of like, okay. So, I did 4-H in high school and I ended up finding a way to show cattle. I was on the livestock judging team and I realized I kind of enjoyed photography but I realized photography was my way into the Western world and to rodeo, livestock and everything.”

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PAYTON’S PLACE

INDUSTRY HILLS, CA — Payton Schoeppach, an exciting young California cowgirl, raced the pattern in 17.36 on board The Mafia Boss, taking second place at Industry Hills Charity Rodeo.

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RESERVED. THE ARENA PRESS™ Weatherford, Texas — Resistol’s Bareback Rookie of the Year, Rocker Steiner shares stories about his incredible 2022 season.

Southern California —

LUKASEY MORRIS

VS TERMINATOR

San Bernadino County Sherrif’s Rodeo 2022. Although Terminator threw the Oklahoma cowboy to the dirt early, Lukasey qualified for the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas for his first time. We are looking forward to seeing what he can do.

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