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Nevada cowgirl Makenah Faircloth races through the pole bending
course during Mondays second performance at the NHSFR in Gillette.

NHSFR by
the numbers
$162,483: Amount of
money given to families in
need by the National High
School Rodeo Association
Crisis Fund since its incep-
tion in 1996.
297: Number of schol-
arships given out by
the NHSR Scholarship
Foundation last year.
$177,250: Amount of
money awarded in those
297 scholarships.
150-200: Items donat-
ed to be auctioned off in
this years silent and live
auctions to benefit the
Scholarship Foundation.
$33,932: Amount of
money raised from the auc-
tions at the 2016 NHSFR in
Gillette.
$2,200: The estimated
potential sale point of one
of the most expensive items
in the silent and live auc-
tions, a bronze sculpture.

News Record Photo/Kelly Wenzel

Brooke McCully squirts Hayes Hammond, 13, with a water gun Sunday afternoon as they play in a pool they brought from Nebraska to stay cool
during the National High School Finals Rodeo.

Rodeo
schedule
TUESDAY
7a.m.: Trap shooting
Creative campers
range open for practice,
Gillette Gun Club
9a.m.: Fourth rodeo per-
formance, Morningside Park;
Veteran rodeo roadies can get creative when they travel
cutting, East Pavilion; reined
cow horse, Gillette College By PATRICK FILBIN
practice arena By the numbers NEWS RECORD WRITER
10a.m. to 4p.m.: NHSRA pfilbin@gillettenewsrecord.net
If Cam-plex were a city this week,
light rifle competition, Gillette

Gun Club
10a.m. to 7p.m.: NHSFR
Trade Show, Wyoming Center
1-2p.m.: PRCA Presents
You and the Media with
Susan Kanode, Energy Hall
Seminar Room No. 1
1p.m.: Foundation
Scramble for Scholarships
golf tournament, Gillette Golf
Club, 1800 Country Club
Road
1p.m.: Live Q&A with Jess
Lockwood, at the Ariat photo
booth in the Wyoming Center
2:30-4p.m.: PRCA rough
stock clinics, Central Pavilion
2:30-5p.m.: PRCA knowl-
edge bowl, Heritage Center
Theater (awards will follow)
7p.m.: Fifth rodeo per-
formance, Morningside Park;
cutting, East Pavilion; reined
cow horse, Gillette College
practice arena. (Contestants,
spectators and personnel
are asked to wear black in
A
it would rank as the 16th most pop- s the high afternoon sun beat down on
ulated city in Wyoming, according to the Boxelder Campground, a horse trail-
numbers released by the Economics er came within a foot of backing into
Division of the Wyoming Department Josh and Lynnette Mays home.
of Administration and Information. Beep ... beep ... beep.
Cheyenne: 64,019 The red taillights of the large silver box flashed
Casper: 59,324 through a small screened window.
Gillette: 32,398 Surrounded by towering RVs, million-dollar
Laramie: 32,382 mobile homes and rigs that luxuriously could
Rock Springs: 23,755 sleep a family of six, Josh and Lynnette stood in
their 12-by-14-foot tent that took 35 minutes to
Sheridan: 17,954
put up.
Green River: 12,305
Joshs brother was on his way from Casper to
Evanston: 12,090
see his nephew, Dalton May, ride bulls in his first
Riverton: 10,997 National High School Finals Rodeo.
Jackson: 10,529 But with thousands of contestants and family
Cody: 9,836 members in one concentrated area, its not easy to
Rawlins: 9,075 find someone youre looking for.
Lander: 7,665 How am I going to find you? his brother
asked.
Torrington: 6,715
Well probably be the only one here in a wall
Douglas: 6,541
Cam-plex: 6,508 tent, buddy, Josh told him.
When compared to other NHSFR contestants
and families, Josh, Lynnette, Dalton and their two
other teenage daughters are roughing it in the
campground.
In their tent, a small box fan sat atop a pile of
crumpled pillows. Five cots were sprawled on the
floor with pillows and blankets.
In one corner was a portable propane stove,
a cooler, a bag of hamburger buns and vintage
military cases used for food and supply storage.
In another corner, two large, black garbage bags
were tied up on a metal pole.
The Mays are mountain people. When they go
on hunting and camping trips near their home-
town of Kalispell, Montana, they usually tie all
their supplies on horseback and put the tent up
with tree branches they find in the woods.
By their standards, the metal frame they bor-
rowed for their weeklong NHSFR stay is bour-
geoisie.
This is actually easy, Josh said, mentioning
that running into town for groceries is its own
See CAMPERS, Page A3

A Chanse for Tanner

honor of men and women in
uniform.)
10:30p.m. to 1a.m.:
Contestants dance, Central
Pavilion
Inside
n Images of rodeo, A2
n Recovery and rodeo, A4
n Notable names, A7
n Old horse returns, A8
n In for the long haul, A9
n Performances 2/3, B1
n Multi-sport athletes, B3
n Rodeo results, B4-B5
Veteran tandem has been team roping together
since 6th grade, and will continue in college
By JONATHAN GALLARDO
NEWS RECORD WRITER
jgallardo@gillettenewsrecord.net
Chanse Switzer and Tanner
Froshaug were sixth-graders when
they first partnered up as team
ropers at the Big Beaver Rodeo in
Saskatchewan.
They recall that first performance
didnt go so well.
Chanse turned a nice steer that I
roped two feet, and then I fell off my
Courtesy Photo/Carla Froshaug horse, Froshaug said.
Team ropers Chanse Switzer, left, and Tanner Froshaug have been partners Needless to say, we didnt get a
since sixth grade, and in the fall they will continue that partnership at Daw- flag, Switzer added.
Although their partnership got off
son Community College in Montana.
to a rocky start, here they are seven
years later competing for a nation-
al title at the National High School
Finals Rodeo in Gillette. In the fall,
the Saskatchewan ropers will continue
that partnership in college.
For Switzer, 18, and Froshaug, 17,
this fall will be the closest theyve
ever lived to each other. Froshaug
lives in Minton, near the Montana-
Saskatchewan border, while Switzer
lives about 150 miles to the west. The
distance has been the biggest challenge
the pair has faced over the years.
We havent had the hours to prac-
tice that much together, Switzer said.
See TEAM, Page A3