We talked with World Champion saddle bronc rider Wade Sundell, who recently made his return to rodeo in his home state at Iowa’s Championship Rodeo in Sidney after almost a year off recovering from major injury.
Wade recalls his accident and what he went through after being rushed to the hospital from the Rancho Mission Viejo Rodeo with a lacerated liver, when and why he made the choice to get back in the saddle, and how it feels to be rodeoing again.
As for his plans for the rest of 2020, he says, “We’re just going to keep entering everyone that we can. We’ve got a little bit of a short time before the cut off is, but there’s a lot of good rodeos left, so everybody that’s in front of me, there’s a target on their back. And as long as I get to the 15th spot, that’s all that matters, and then we’ll go on from there.”
“The will power and having the drive to want to go in — if you don’t want to go win, then you’re not going to come back, but if’ you’ve still got that drive, don’t ever give up. Give it everything you’ve got, every day, to make it happen.”
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