{"id":59321,"date":"2021-04-13T08:14:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T13:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=59321"},"modified":"2021-04-13T08:14:01","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T13:14:01","slug":"fhsu-prepares-for-55th-annual-rodeo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=59321","title":{"rendered":"FHSU prepares for 55th annual rodeo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By UNIVERSITY RELATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shae Biedenbender has been rodeoing since the age of 5, and you can see her and the FHSU Rodeo team in action this weekend at the 55<sup>th<\/sup> annual FHSU NIRA Rodeo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The FHSU Rodeo is scheduled for Friday through Sunday, April 16-18 at Doug Philip Arena, located on Golf Course Road, a half-mile west of U.S. Highway 183 Alternate, Hays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Public performances begin\nat 7 p.m. both Friday and Saturday and 1 p.m. on Sunday. The 2021 FHSU rodeo queen will be\ncrowned during Sunday\u2019s performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re super excited- it\u2019s going to be a great rodeo,\u201d Biedenbender said. \u201cEspecially because we have that hometown advantage and as a team, we\u2019ve been accelerating. Everyone\u2019s been doing great so we can\u2019t wait to get out there and see how everyone does. \u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nearly 600 competitors\nfrom 22 schools in the Central Plains Region will compete in bareback bronc\nriding, bull riding, calf roping, cowgirls barrel racing, cowgirls breakaway roping,\ncowgirls goat tying, saddle bronc riding, steer wrestling, team roping, and\ntie-down roping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These student-athletes are competing for the opportunity to qualify for the College National Finals June 11-19 in Casper, Wyo.\u00a0 The top three individuals in points in each individual event, as well as the top two teams, in each of the 11 regions across the country will win their seat at the CNFR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tickets can be purchased\nat the Student Service Center in FHSU\u2019s Memorial Union; Orscheln Farm &amp;\nHome, 2900 Broadway Ave.; and Vanderbilt\u2019s, 2704 Vine. Advance ticket prices\nare $10. Prices at the gate will be $12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>COVID\nprecautions will be applied to ensure the safety of our competitors and\naudience members including a new digital program guide that can be scanned when\nentering the arena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UNIVERSITY RELATIONS Shae Biedenbender has been rodeoing since the age of 5, and you can see her and the FHSU Rodeo team in action&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3397,3398,11,3404,7349],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-area-news","category-campus-news","category-news","category-rodeo-sports","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59322,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59321\/revisions\/59322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}