Trey Holston qualified for his first ever National Finals Rodeo in 2022 and has kept the fire going every since.
It all started when Holston was a toddler riding sheep and he has gone through all the stages and animals that come with it including, calves, steers and little bulls.
“Most of my life was just consumed by bull riding, for sure, rodeos every weekend and school during the week… it’s been nonstop since age three or four,” Holston said.
Just up the road from where Holston grew up, in Fort Scott, Kansas, lived Tate and Coy Pollmeier. The Pollmeier brothers had an arena with unlimited bulls to practice.
“Growing up, that was a huge part of my life. Being able to be surrounded by that and the people that they were around, that changed a lot for me,” he said.
You add that to Holston’s father’s knowledge after riding bulls himself, Holston’s fundamentals and goals were rooted in Kansas and they have only grown from there.
“He was the man when he was a kid, he won it all,” Troy Flaharty said.
Holston says that going professional was not so much a choice, it was just what you did.
“The guys I was around, the people I was surrounded with, when you turned 18 you bought your PBR card or you bought your PRCA card and you split up. You went one way or the other and you hit it every weekend,” Holston said.
He grew up with an unmatched group of bull riders including Cannon Craven, Jess Lockwood, Stetson Wright and the list goes on with a new level of high caliber, young, professional bull riders.
After winning the National High School Finals, Holston was automatically in for PBR’s Velocity Tour but his first year in professional bull riding would not go how he hoped.
After the lowest point in his career, Holston would turn it all around to make the National Finals Rodeo in 2022.