The Blue Mountain Community College rodeo team is hosting their home rodeo as well as the Northwest Intercollegiate Regional Finals present by Wyatt Enterprises on April 28-29 at the Farm-City Pro Rodeo Arena in Hermiston.
Ten Northwest Region rodeo teams will kick off the competition at 10 a.m. Friday morning and the Regional Finals will begin at 6:30 p.m. Friday evening. The Regional Finals will continue on with slack at 10 a.m. Saturday morning and a final go at 6:30 p.m. Saturday night.
Competing teams include Blue Mountain Community College, Walla Walla Community College, Treasure Valley Community College, Eastern Oregon University, Central Washington University, Oregon State University, Boise State University, Washington State University, Eastern Washington University, Linn-Benton Community College, Northern Idaho College and University of Idaho.
Currently BMCC is leading the region on the men’s side by 202.5 points over WWCC and on the women’s side by 1650.5 points over TVCC (as of Friday, April 14). Hermiston is the final rodeo of the season in which athletes will be fighting for a trip to Casper, Wyo., to the College National Rodeo Finals June 11-17. The top three students in each event, and top two men’s and women’s teams from the NIRA’s 11 regions will qualify for the CNFR. The BMCC Women hope to return to defend their back-to-back 2015 and 2016 national titles. For complete standings visit http://www.collegerodeo.com/standings/2014-2015-northwest-region-standings/
Tickets are $10 for the evening performances and $5 for the morning slack events and can be purchased at the gate. Children under 12 years of age are free. Have BBQ Will Travel, will provide the concessions. There will also be a Budweiser beer garden for those over 21 years of age.
All proceeds from the event go to scholarships for the Blue Mountain Community College Rodeo Team.
