Tech's Taylor Langdon rides to victory at AQHA World Championship Show
For the second year in a row, Texas Tech's standout barrel racer Taylor Langdon has won the amateur barrel racing world championship at the American Quarter Horse Association World Championship Show. The event was held last week in Oklahoma City.
"We're so very proud of Taylor and her great mare," said Texas Tech Rodeo Coach Chris Guay. "Taylor is an awesome part of our rodeo team."
Langdon and her 7-year-old horse Frenchie had the fastest time in the amateur prelims, a 16.8, and returned to the amateur finals to blaze the fastest time as well, a 16.7, for a combined time of 33.5.
The junior radiology major from Aubrey is currently fifth in the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association's southwest regional standings. Langdon and teammate Haley Nelson, a senior English major from Channing, lead 130 barrel racers in the southwest region halfway through the school year.
Texas Tech's rodeo teams are scheduled to compete in several rodeos during the spring semester. According to program officials, their goal is to win a regional championship which will qualify them for the College National Finals Rodeo next June.
The top two teams and top three individuals in the region automatically advance to the Casper, Wyoming finals. Known as the "Rose Bowl" of college rodeo, the event crowns individual event champions in saddle bronc riding, bare back riding, tie-down roping, steer wrestling, bullriding, team roping, barrel racing, breakaway roping, and goat tying.
National team championships are also awarded to both men's and women's teams.
Written by Norman Martin
CONTACT: Chris Guay, rodeo coach, Department of Animal and Food Sciences, Texas Tech University at (806) 742-2805 ext. 256 or www.ttu.edu/rodeo
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