LOGAN - Utah State University students get a chance to practice on their horses and go into professional rodeo.

USU Rodeo Club has students practicing Monday through Thursday. On Monday and Wednesday they practice calf roping. Tuesday and Thursday they practice steer roping. But they also practice barrel racing, goat tying and rough stock events.

Each student at the rodeo club needs to have competed for a year to get into the club and provide their own horse.

Colton Bair is the head rodeo coach at Utah State University.

“We do require that our student athletes compete for at least one year before joining the rodeo club. And then us, as coaches, we hope to take what they have already there, a foundation, and build upon that,” said Bair.

Bair and his wife Hilary work with each student i

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