Story of Rodeo & Hanna

Hanna Nunn

Senior Year

Alberta High School Rodeo

Fall season

Excelled in goat tying

Except in the mud at Foremost

Caught a couple times in breakaway

Only team roped a couple times

Spring season

Goat ate Lena’s tail

Buy horse tail extension

Rocked the goat tying

Only competed on Saturday rodeos

Keep the Sabbath Day Holy

Roped well at most rodeos

Personal best at High River in goat tying

6.9 seconds

Often placed in team roping with a barrier and a leg

Last regular season rodeo – Strathmore

Sitting 2^nd in goats; 7^th in team roping; 10^th in breakaway

Top 10 go to provincials

Check the draw

Hanna forgot to enter

Not good

Dad is mad

Hanna is sick about it

Still had to go because team roping partner entered her

Longest, quiet drive to Strathmore

Talia, team roping header, missed

Drove back home

Dad fasted that she could hold her 10^th spot

TJ texted Sunday afternoon

Hanna held her breakaway spot

Bumped down to third in goats

Provincials

Priesthood blessing

Peaceful and happy drive to Ponoka

Checked in

No problems

Day one

Goat tying is her first event

7.9 seconds

2^nd place

Success

Relief – last year her goat got up on the first day

Breakaway

First out because she came in last place out of 30 girls

3.0 seconds

Clean run

Placed third

Team roping

Caught two feet

Slipped her dalley

Dropped her reigns

Took both hands to pull the rope tight

Dad yelling

Held both feet in the loop and pulled tight

13 seconds

7^th place

Serious rope burn blister on her hand

Successful first day

Good night sleep

Stampeder Inn

Day 2

Austin had to leave to go back for Stake Conference

Tears.

From Austin

Last words of advice:

One big step (breakaway score)

6.9 seconds (goats)

First event of the day – goats

“Is this supposed to be fun?”

6.9 seconds

She did it

First place

Loud cheering

Buckle

Breakaway roping

Last to go

3.2 seconds

Clean run

Tied for 5^th/6^th place

Team roping

7.8 seconds

2^nd place

Girl power

Only 3 teams out of 30 caught two

Cowboy Prom

Jill did Hanna’s hair and make up

She looked beautiful

AHSRA scholarship

NHSRA merit scholarship

No dance for Hanna

Day 3

This is it

Prayers

More prayers

Lucky shirt

Goat tying

Hanna sitting in first coming in to final round

Last to go

Smokin down the arena

Fast tie

7.2 seconds

Goat gets up

Nooooooo

Heartbroken

No provincial championship

Why

Tears

From each of us

Presentation minutes later

Hanna has been voted for the spirit award for District 1

Oh wait

They drew for the buckle for the 3 spirit award winners

It wasn’t Hanna

Never mind

Steps back out of the arena

Couldn’t have been worse timing

Text Austin

He is heartbroken

And sad

And mad he’s not there

Hanna to the truck

Text dad

So much for blessings

Decided it’s over

Nothing else she can do about it

Dad’s advice: regroup and go rope

Words of consoling from everyone

Hug to Kaylynn from the mom of the girl who won goats

More tears from Carly

Back to the arena

Breakaway

Jill helping Hanna in the box

3.6 seconds

4^th place in the round

Three clean runs

Top 6 girls all missed or had to use 2 loops

She won the average

Goat tying final results

5^th place overall

Only top 4 go to nationals

Third place girl in goats – Kenda Statham

Not going to nationals this year

Only a freshman

Her mom, Jody, came to tell me

Hanna can roll up

She can still go to nationals in goats

Breakaway results

Hanna ended up third overall

She gets to go nationals in breakaway

Things are looking up

Maybe there are still blessings

Maybe this is a good sport

Hanna – “What is this day?”

Team roping

Hanna and Talia

Just have to catch

Ride in the box

Talia catches the head

Hanna comes around the corner

Two swings and deliver

Two feet

Pull tight

9.4 seconds

They won the average

Waiting for final results

Carly keeps checking for them to post it

Finally here comes the paper

1^st place – Hanna and Talia

What

For real?

Provincial champions

That’s not even their best event

They win saddles and buckles

First place

Not the event we expected to get the saddle for

There are blessings

It all worked out

After a roller coaster day

Austin reading all the texts

Eating lunch with the visiting general authority

Can’t believe it

Going to nationals in 3 events

Go upstairs to sign up

Kenda may have changed her mind about nationals

Down the roller coaster

At least Hanna gets to go

Kenda still not going

Hanna gets to do goats too

Signed up and entered

Walking back to the truck

Kaylynn – “that was an emotionally exhausting day”

Hanna – “I’m doing ok.

I’m proud of myself.

I held it together.”

Yes you did

Yes, Hanna you did.

Provincial champion!

Blessings

Hard work

Talent