{"id":45161,"date":"2019-04-15T08:03:47","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T13:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=45161"},"modified":"2019-04-15T09:28:14","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T14:28:14","slug":"%ef%bb%bffhsu-rodeo-and-easter-weekend-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=45161","title":{"rendered":"\ufeffFHSU rodeo and Easter weekend this year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By UNIVERSITY RELATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bronc Rumford has become a pro at improvising over the years. <br><br> So the Fort Hays State University rodeo coach didn\u2019t give it a second thought when he realized that Easter would fall on the same weekend as the FHSU Rodeo this year. <br><br> The rodeo is annually scheduled for the third weekend of April at Doug Philip Arena. To accommodate for the Easter holiday, the 2019 NIRA event will be shortened from three days to two. <br><br> \u201cWe\u2019ve had rain, wind, snow and 26 degrees,\u201d Rumford said. \u201cOne year we had to cancel Friday\u2019s events because of rain and mud, but we were able to get it all in on Saturday and Sunday. We are used to making adjustments.\u201d <br><br> Rumford stressed that all the traditional events will still be held at the 53rd annual rodeo, including crowning the Fort Hays State Rodeo Queen during Friday night\u2019s performance. <br><br> \u201cWe will just have more kids in the two days of slack,\u201d Rumford said of the overflow number of contestants in certain events. \u201cWe\u2019re even going to still have Cowboy Church.\u201d <br><br> Admission this year is $5 for Fort Hays State students with Tiger ID, which is a change from past practice. <br> Public performances begin at 7 p.m. both Friday, April 19, and Saturday, April 20. The Cowboy Church service, ordinarily held on Sunday morning of the rodeo weekend, is scheduled for 5 p.m. Saturday this year to accommodate Easter celebrations. <br> Events for the nearly 500 competitors from 22 schools in the Central Plains Region are: bareback bronc riding, bull riding, calf roping, cowgirls barrel racing, cowgirls breakaway roping, saddle bronc riding, steer wrestling, team roping and tie-down roping. <br> Tickets can be purchased at the Student Service Center in FHSU\u2019s Memorial Union; Orscheln Farm &amp; Home, 2900 Broadway Ave.; and Vanderbilt\u2019s, 2704 Vine. Advance ticket prices are $10 for adults and $5 for children. Prices at the gate will be $12 (adults) and $8 (children). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UNIVERSITY RELATIONS Bronc Rumford has become a pro at improvising over the years. So the Fort Hays State University rodeo coach didn\u2019t give it&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-45161","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":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45161"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45188,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45161\/revisions\/45188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}