The Mid-Plains Community College rodeo team will travel to Spearfish S.D. and compete in the Will Lantis Yellow Jacket Stampede at Black Hills State University on April 24-25 at the Seven Down Arena.

In the Great Plains region of the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association, the Mid-Plains men’s team is in seventh place with 1070 points and the women’s team is in 10^th place with 110 points.  Individually, Puttergill is in sixth place with 260 points in saddle bronc riding.  Tyler Murray is tied for 11^th in steer wrestling with 200 points. Jacobson is in 14^th place with 110 points in breakaway roping.

In the bull riding, Mid-Plains has five cowboys in the top 15 led by Keali’i’auka Kaai in fourth place with 290 points. Colter Glendy and Tyler Viers are fifth and sixth in the region with 230 and 190 points respectively. Tyler Wriedt is 10^th with 80 points and Dakota Rice is tied for 11^th with 70 points.

The top three students in each event, and top two men’s and women’s teams from the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association’s 11 regions will qualify for the College National Finals Rodeo held in Casper, Wyo., June 14 – 20.

The top two men’s teams in the region currently are South Dakota State University with 4,265 points and Black Hills State with 3,200 points.  On the women’s side Dickinson State University leads with 3,015 points, followed by Black Hills State with 1,635 points.