May 4, 2011
The women's team, pictured with Coach Chris Guay, was crowned the NIRA's southwest regional team champion.
Led by women’s all-around cowgirl champ Bailey Guthrie, Texas Tech’s women’s rodeo team was crowned the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association’s (NIRA) southwest regional team champion at the Tarleton State University Rodeo in Stephenville.
Some 15 colleges and universities across West Texas and Eastern New Mexico competed at the event.
Guthrie, a junior pre-physical therapy major from Rigby, Idaho, took second in go round one in both breakaway roping and goat tying, said Chris Guay, rodeo coach and an instructor in the Department of Animal and Food Sciences. Guthrie tied for third in the finals in breakaway, giving her a second place overall finish. She placed first in the finals to take first overall in goat tying. Ultimately, Guthrie’s efforts won her the women’s all-around cowgirl championship.
The team of Guthrie and Nelson, along with Kirsten Stubbs, a sophomore agriculture and applied economics major from Eldorado, and Taylor Langdon, a radiology technology major from Aubrey, will advance to June’s College National Finals Rodeo in Casper, Wyo.
The Texas Tech men’s rodeo team finished the competition in third place. In individual honors, Adam Sawyer, a senior agriculture and applied economics major from Bassett, Neb., won the men’s all-around championship placing in both the calf roping and steer wrestling events. He tied for first in the calf roping finals, giving him a fourth place overall win.
Saddle bronc rider Clay Creasy, an equine sciences major from Alberta, Canada, placed second in the finals and won second overall. Creasy’s brother Luke Creasy, a senior English major from Alberta, Canada, won the bareback riding championship. Teammate C.J. Kerr, a junior animal and food sciences major from Paradise, finished second for the year in the steer wrestling event. Kerr and Luke Creasy will advance to this year’s College National Finals Rodeo, Guay said.
The College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources is made up of six departments:
The college also consists of eleven research centers and institutes, including the Cotton Economics Research Institute, the International Cotton Research Center and the Fiber and Biopolymer Research Institute.
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