How would you like to be 10 minutes away from meeting your favorite professional athletes, and have that sprung on you as a surprise?

That’s how it happened last Friday for youngsters Skylar and Jensyn Speck of Throckmorton, Texas. Their parents, Nathan Wright and Sabrina Speck, were able to keep a lid on plans to attend an autograph signing session with the 15 barrel racers who qualified for the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo.

“They did not know we were coming to this,” Wright said. “It was a complete surprise. This is the first time we’ve come out for the NFR.”

So both girls were stunned just beforehand, and perhaps more so after getting signatures from all 15 contestants, posing for pictures along the way during the two-hour event at the Golden Nugget.

“I just found out at Starbucks

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