Women's Rodeo Team Rebounds Strong at West Hills

The Lassen College Women's Rodeo team regained some momentum last weekend at the West Hills College Rodeo held in Coalinga, bringing home some top finishes.

Lassen showed major improvements across the board. Freshman Hailey Finnegan led the team in points by winning second place in the barrel racing in the long go-round and coming back and dominating the short round winning it by half a second. Lassen sophomore Jordan Gutsch made her mark this weekend as well in the goat tying event winning seventh in the long round and finishing eighth overall. Gutsch also ended up eleventh overall in the breakaway roping and the barrel racing events.

Lassen sophomore Jessi Preyer and her partner Lassen men's rodeo team member, Ray Mayo, placed eighth in the long round of the team roping event and finished fifth place in the average.

"We still have four more rodeos left in our season, and we are sitting in good standing to take a full team to the College Rodeo Finals in Casper, Wyoming in June," said Head Coach Suzanne Williams.