Three of the top rookie steer wrestlers are Adam Musil, Kyler Dick and Bryn Roy.
Roy is hoping to follow in his father’s footsteps and take another World Champion Steer Wrestling title back to Canada.
“It’s pretty cool, obviously, being born and raised in this game. I’m super excited to be going hard down the road and competing and having somebody like that to look up to, it’s an honor for sure,” Roy said.
What has Roy standing out from the rest of the rookies is not only his age, but the fact that he has bulldogged all of his life. Although it took a back seat to his football career, he is in the game now and legendary calf roper Joe Beaver says that that is a testament to what the Resistol Rookie title means.
“You don’t have be 18 and just get your card. You can go and do whatever you want to do but that first year that you buy it and get after it, that means something to compete. And that’s why I think the rookie is such a unique award,” Beaver said.
Keeping with the theme of having a champion for a father in your back pocket during your rookie year, Oklahoma’s Adam Musil is just like Roy in that area.
Musil’s rookie year got started the right way when he had success at the National Western Stock Show and Rodeo and he says bull dogging is all he was thinking about and according to Beaver, that’s the way you have to play the game.
As for Kyler Dick, he is in the middle of a college rodeo career while hitting the road for his rookie year of his professional career. He is sitting No. 3 in the Resistol Rookie Standings and with the summer run around the corner, it is any bull dogger’s race.