{"id":64705,"date":"2022-04-19T16:09:05","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T21:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=64705"},"modified":"2022-04-19T16:09:07","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T21:09:07","slug":"students-receive-scholarships-from-phillipsburg-rodeo-assn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=64705","title":{"rendered":"Students receive scholarships from Phillipsburg Rodeo Assn."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Phillipsburg Rodeo Association, the organization behind Kansas\u2019 Biggest Rodeo, has awarded more than $26,000 to Fort Hays State University rodeo team members during the past 25 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This\nyear\u2019s recipients of $500 scholarship each are Brent Hornbuckle from Ottawa and\nKamryn Smith from Linn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both\ncompeted at this last weekend\u2019s FHSU Rodeo and will close out the 2022 spring\nregular season this weekend at the Panhandle State Rodeo in Guymon, Okla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hornbuckle,\nwho competes in the tie-down roping and team roping for the FHSU men\u2019s team,\ndidn\u2019t begin roping until he came to college. But he learned quickly, watching\nvideos of professional ropers and shadowing Ross Russell, then one of the FHSU\ncoaches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A\n2016 graduate of Ottawa High School, Hornbuckle will graduate this May with\ndegrees in agronomy, agronomy business, and animal science. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Smith,\nwho competes in the breakaway roping and team roping for the FHSU women\u2019s team,\ncompeted in junior high and high school rodeo before attending college.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A\n2019 graduate of Linn High School, Smith is pursuing an agriculture business\ndegree with a minor in accounting. She competes in the Kraft Rodeo Co. series\nand hopes to someday own a business training and riding performance horses.\n\nBoth this year\u2019s scholarship winners have ties\nto the Phillipsburg Rodeo. Hornbuckle attended the event in 2019 and worked as\na livestock caretaker \u2013 feeding, watering, and sorting rodeo cattle. Smith also\nhas attended the rodeo as a spectator, and she competed in the arena in high\nschool rodeo in 2019.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS The Phillipsburg Rodeo Association, the organization behind Kansas\u2019 Biggest Rodeo, has awarded more than $26,000 to Fort Hays State University rodeo team&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":[11722],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases"],"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\/64705","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=64705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64706,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64705\/revisions\/64706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}