Fun Times for Will Lummus at Sheridan WYO Rodeo
Will Lummus’s secret to his success is just having fun.
With that being the case, he must have had fun at the Sheridan WYO Rodeo, walking away with the title and more than $5,700 at the ProRodeo Tour stop.
“You know, when you’re happy and you’re having fun, that’s when you’re gonna win,” Lummus said. “You need to go home if you’re not having fun.”
Lummus also traveled south to Colorado Springs, Colo., for the Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo, where he won the first performance, good for $1,842. The winnings helped Lummus climb to third in the PRCA | RAM World Standings with $57,584.
As summer’s hectic rodeo schedule continues, Lummus and his travel crew still have plenty of miles to drive and runs to make. His next stops are Ogden, Utah, Nampa, Idaho, and Spanish Fork, Utah, all before the end of the week.
Having rodeo friends that are more like family make the miles easier to pass.
“It’s hard to do it out here by yourself,” Lummus said. “If you don’t have some friends out here, it gets lonely, especially with family back home.
“So I think having a good set of friends that are like family is crucial to your success.”
With a lot of rodeo left, Lummus and other cowboys are focusing on staying consistent as they make their run at making the 2021 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo.
The confines of the Thomas and Mack Center, where the Wrangler NFR is hosted, wouldn’t be a new sight for Lummus, a three-time qualifier (2018-20). After placing fifth in 2020, Lummus is looking to contend for a gold buckle.
To take home the prize, Lummus knows he will need the right horse under him and the right steer next to him. When those two pieces fall together, he said it’s hard not to do well.
“If you get good steers and ride good horses, it’s hard not to do well,” Lummus said. “You just have to keep going, keep moving forward and do your job.”
Lummus said he has been blessed with the opportunity to ride great horses, contributing to his multiple seasons of success.
“It just goes back to riding good horses. That’s really our concrete base,” Lummus said. “We don’t have ropes; we have to catch them with our hands. So the faster we can get there, the more we can win.”
And the more he wins, the more fun he’s having.
Other winners at the $282,775 rodeo were bareback rider Clayton Biglow (89 points on Sankey Pro Rodeo & Phenom Genetics’ Great Nation); team ropers Luke Brown/Hunter Kock (9.2 seconds on two head); saddle bronc rider Cash Wilson (90 points on Burch Rodeo’s Lunatic from Hell); tie-down roper Cody Huber (16.2 seconds on two head); barrel racer Hailey Kinsel (16.91 seconds); steer roper Vin Fisher Jr. (55.7 seconds on four head); and bull rider Trey Kimzey (90.5 points on Sankey Pro Rodeo & Phenom Genetics’ Bad Beagle). Taylor Santos was the all-around cowboy ($3,113, tie-down roping and steer roping).
Courtesy of PRCA