Mark LaRowe Photography

The Northern Rodeo Association is proud to welcome their newest partner, Mark LaRowe Photography.  Mark has held a NRA/NWRA Photographer membership since 2014.  He is a Bozeman-based photographer whose passion is western landscapes and western lifestyle, including portraiture, rodeo, skijoring, ranch sorting, and other equine/western events.  Mark’s work can be seen hanging in several commercial locations around southwestern Montana including the Big Sky Western Bank lobby in Big Sky, Millennium Real Estate & Management, LLC & Montana Western Realty in Helena, Sager Dental Group in Four Corners, Hall & Hall Ranch Real Estate in Bozeman, Café M in Bozeman, Chevallier Land and Cattle Company in Canyon Creek.  You can view Mark’s body of work at www.marklarowephotography.com and keep up with his active photographic life on his Facebook page, www.facebook.com/MarkLaRowePhotography.

Meet Your 2015 All-Around Champion

Pick a side. Rough stock or timed event. That was your all-around cowboy race. Young Tristan Hansen was trying to bring the all-around buckle back to the bucking chutes after a one-year absence. The Victor, Idaho cowboy, who competes for the University of Montana Western rodeo program, had been stellar in two of the most physically demanding events in rodeo – bareback and bull riding. Hansen was pursuing the Northern Rodeo Association’s coveted Triple Crown, being a champion in three events. The last to accomplish the feat was Gerald Eash of Trego in 2011. Hansen was second in both the bareback and bull riding standings coming into the finals. Tristan had proven he’s up to the task in handling both. He swept both events at Three Forks, Twin Bridges and Boulder this summer. Hansen also won the bareback riding at Deer Lodge and was second in bull riding and closed his summer with a bull riding win at Hamilton. After the first 2 rounds of finals the distance between Tristan and Ben Ayre was the same. It was all coming down to the final round and average. With Hansen winning the last round of the bareback riding and placing in the average he held the lead over Glendive cowboy, Ben Ayre, by just under $800. Congratulations Tristan on your year end All-Around Title.

Meet Your 2015 Bull Riding Champion

Jess Lockwood is a young bull rider in a hurry.  Lockwood, of Volborg, planned to begin his pro career when he turned 18 in September.  To focus on bull riding, he will take on-line classes to finish high school this year.  But before embarking on his new life, the former state wrestling champion for Powder River High School in Broadus was in Butte for three days defending his NRA title.  Riding a selective schedule, Lockwood won at Wilsall, Scobey and Butte.  He also finished second at Big Timber and fourth at Harlowton.  Twice in the last three years, Lockwood has come within seconds of the bull riding title at the National High School Finals Rodeo.  Although the High School Finals didn’t pan out like Jess would have liked he had a perfect NRA Finals.  Jess was the only bull rider to ride in the 1st round aboard S.O.B. of Red Eye Rodeo Company with a score of 82. He drew Dr Feel Good of Jacobs Rodeo in the 2nd round and posted a score of 79.5 good enough for 1st place.  Saturday night there was some déjà vu going on in the Butte Civic Center, Lockwood drew Big Circle Rodeo Company’s Twisted Tea, the bull he won the final round on in 2014, and this year was no different.  Jess posted the highest score of the weekend with an 87.5 point ride, and was also the only one to ride in the final round.  The Volborg cowboy won all three rounds and the average totaling his 2015 Finals winnings that counted for the standings at $3150.00, what he walked out of the Civic Center with was $5250.00 with ground money included.  That is what a perfect Finals looks like. Congratulations Jess on your back-to-back Bull Riding Championship.

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