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Dublin's Chyenne Cronin galloping to junior
high rodeo nationals in New Mexico July 2-7
Aaron Jacklin
While Dublin's Chyenne Cronin
only started competing in rodeo
events last year, she will compete in
the junior high rodeo nationals in
New Mexico in early July.
"Only four girls from Ontario get
to go," says Natalie Cronin,
Chyenne's mom.
Chyenne competes in the Ontario
High School Rodeo Association
(OHSRA) in the Wrangler Junior
High division.
The OHSRA is a part of the
National High School Rodeo
Association, which is made up of
12,500 members from five Canadian
provinces, 39 U.S. states and
Australia.
"Only four from each area go,"
Natalie says. "It's quite a competi-
tion."
Chyenne, a Grade 7 student of St.
Columban School, missed the first
SPS athletes
place at board
wide track meet
Seaforth Public School's interme-
diate boys, Paul Doig and Riley
Ward, came first in one of their
events at the Avon Maitland District
School Board track meet last week.
Doig came first in the 800 -metre
run and Ward came first in shot put.
Ward also came third in high jump.
Luke Harrison came second in the
senior boys' long jump and third in
the 100 -metre race.
Andrea Rowntree came second in
the senior girls' 400 -metre race and
fourth in the 200 -metre race.
Nicole McIntosh came third in the
senior girls' 800 -metre race.
Jordan Boniface Button came
third in the junior boys' softball
throw.
Courtney Higenell came third in
the pee wee girls' softball throw.
Brodie Cairns came fourth in the
senior boys' long jump and fifth in
the 200 -metre race.
Brandy Gagnier came fifth in the
intermediate girls' shot put.
Lexi Cook came sixth in the inter-
mediate girls' 400 -metre run.
Abbey Alexander came seventh in
the junior girls' softball throw.
Chyenne Cronin, of Dublin,
at the chell Horse Club.
Aaron Jacklin photo
competes in a recent horse show
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eight of the 16
rodeos last sea
son and still
qualified to go on
points.
"I at least got
third place," she
says.
Her mom
says, "She's very
aggressive."
Chyenne com-
petes in four
events.
"There's bar-
rels," she says,
"where there are
three barrels and
you go around
them in a clover-
leaf pattern."
In pole bend-
ing, Chyenne
explains there's a
line of poles that
you weave
through and
then race
straight back.
In goat tying,
she says, "You jump off the horse
and tie the goat, which is very fun,
but dangerous."
The last one is the break away.
"You come out of a chute and rope
a calf," she says.
When asked which her favourite
is, Chyenne initially says barrels
and goat tying, but after another
moment's thought decides she likes
them all.
"They're all fun," she says. "I like
competing."
Natalie - who competes herself -
says it's perfect from a parent's per-
spective.
"They don't win money. They win
scholarships," she says.
Competitors can't cash in the
scholarships; they must use them
for school.
"If their grades go down, the asso-
ciation kicks them out," she says."If
they get in trouble within school or
outside of school, in the community,
they're kicked out."
The Wrangler Junior High Finals
will be July 2 to 7 in Gallop, New
Mexico.
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