Women’s team takes second place in Perryton

Perryton, Texas-

Texas Tech women’s team takes second place in Perryton, Texas where Frank Phillips College and West Texas A&M hosted the 16 colleges for the third of ten intercollegiate rodeos of the 2009-10 school year.

• Kallie Lamb junior Animal and Food Sciences major won the goat tying championship after tying for second in round one and tying for first in the top ten finals Saturday night. These stellar performances gave the young lady from Alberta, Canada the aggregate (average) or overall win.
• Team mate Erica Creswell from Weatherford, Oklahoma placed first in the first go round out of 65 contestants in the goat tying event. Creswell the president of the Tech Rodeo Association placed 4th in the finals, which gave the junior Psychology major a second place finish in the average.
• Taylor Langdon from Aubrey placed 4th in the barrel racing in the first go round out of 100 contestants, the freshman Animal and Food Sciences major placed 6th in the finals, and finished 5th overall.

Tech’s men’s team finished 4th with Luke Creasy from Alberta, Canada winning his second championship of the semester in the bareback bronc riding event. The junior English major qualified for the finals by placing 4th in go round one, placed first in the finals, and finished first overall.

• Logan Allen, Agriculture leadership major placed third in the saddle bronc riding finals and the Crescent, Iowa native placed third overall in the classic event (saddle bronc riding).
• Also placing for TTU was Sterling Smith, Post, Texas placing 5th in go round one out 95 calf ropers, winning second place in the finals. The senior Exercise and Sports Sciences major placed second overall in the calf roping event in Perryton.
• Craig Leonard junior Animal and Food Sciences Major from Sonora also placed in the calf roping. Leonard placed 3rd in the finals, and finished 4th overall.
• Jake Booze from Miami placed 6th in the calf roping after the first go round, 6th in finals, and 6th overall.
• Adam Sawyer, Bassett, Nebraska placed first in the Steer wrestling finals. The junior Agriculture business major finished 2nd overall in the big man’s event (Steer wrestling).
• Ryan Shanklin, junior Agriculture leadership major tied for first in the finals and won second overall in the bull riding event in Perryton. Shanklin from Rocksprings, Texas is freshly coming off a second place finish at the world famous Pendleton Roundup Rodeo (Oregon).

Both Shanklin and Leonard’s grandpa’s were members of the 1955 Texas Tech University’s National Champion Rodeo Team.

See Frank Phillips College Rodeo Results

This week Tech’s men and women’s rodeo teams travel to Vernon College the site of the 4th National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association’s rodeo. Vernon College hosts the 16 schools in the Southwest region of the NIRA then we finish the fall semester rodeo season in Lubbock at the 60th annual Texas Tech University NIRA rodeo October 15-17, 2009.

Contact the rodeo coach, Chris Guay, for more information: 806.742.2805 ext. 256.
Additional information is also available at www.collegerodeo.com and www.swregion.org.