Hawley, Minn. youth meet Bareback Rider Ty Breuer
Omaha, Neb. (June 12, 2024) – Ty Breuer from Mandan, North Dakota won the bareback riding at the 64th American Heroes PRCA Rodeo in Hawley, Minnesota on Saturday June 8, 2024. Breuer a 7x Wrangler National Finals Rodeo qualifier and Badlands Circuit contestant rode his reride horse Barnes’ Bottle Cap for 81.5 points to win.
Wrangler National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas where Ty Breuer won the 4th go-round in 2017. Photo credit PRCA/Greg Westfall
“I was happy when I came back and had an old campaigner, I knew I had a chance at pulling a good check,” stated Breuer as he reflected on the reride draw. “I really slowed down this year to concentrate on the circuit. I have three kids and a wife, I like to stay home more, and my body can’t take the full year of rodeoing,” Breuer explained.
Breuer is the reigning 2023 Badlands Circuit Finals champion. His rodeo resume is lengthy on prorodeo.com and includes seven trips to the WNFR in Las Vegas and numerous wins including the Pendleton Round-up in 2015. He is the 2010 PRCA Resistol Bareback Riding Rookie of the Year; 2010 Intercollegiate Bareback Riding Champion; 2008 Reserve National High School Finals Rodeo Champion and three-time North Dakota bareback riding state champion, 2006-08.
Hawley residents Jackson Kloos and Carson Giere, fourth graders, were looking at the bucking bulls and their rodeo day sheet before the Saturday performance all decked out in western attire. Photo by Gretchen Kirchmann
Jackson Kloos and Carson Giere, upcoming fourth graders from Hawley had the chance to meet Breuer before the rodeo. “I remember being that little guy at a rodeo,” said Breuer during a phone interview and reflected on meeting contestants as a kid himself when his father was rodeoing back in the 1990s. “We were raised to be kind to everyone. I can pick out those kids watching us,” he explained.
The WNFR go-round winner took time to talk with both boys, pose for a photograph and answer their questions prior to the performance.
“It was great to meet Ty before the rodeo and then see him win it all. Now I want to be a bareback rider too,” stated Kloos via text from his mother Crystal’s phone a few days later. His mom texted back with a message reading, “he was practicing the very next day!”
Nine-year-old Kloos is a regular at the rodeo since 2015. He’s been attending since he was 10-months old with his mom. Kloos competes in the ‘Lil Riders Rodeo series and decided to hang up his cowboy hat and focus on baseball until this past weekend. Meeting Breuer was a game changer.
Giere matched his childhood friend’s attitude. “I had so much fun meeting Ty with Jackson. I can’t wait for the next year’s rodeo,” he said to his mother Tiffeny.
The annual community event was action packed with extremely large crowds both nights.
Hawley Rodeo winners courtesy of prorodeo.com
Fonda Melby from Backus, Minnesota edged out World Champion Barrel Racer Fallon Taylor with the fastest time of 15.97 seconds. Taylor ran 15.98 seconds. First place paid $895 and second $778. The remaining barrel racing payouts were 3. Codi Harman, 16.02, $662; 4. Makala Pierce, 16.11, $545; 5. Lori Nelson, 16.18, $428; 6. Raelin Jurgens, 16.22, $311; 7. Sharon Munn, 16.29, $195; 8. Aubrey Sprouse, 16.30, $78.
All-around cowboy: Rex Treeby, $790, tie-down roping and team roping.
Bareback riding: 1. Ty Breuer, 81.5 points on Barnes PRCA Rodeo’s Bottle Cap, $1,061; 2. Briar Dittmer, 77, $804; 3. Tanner Fine, 72, $579; 4. Shannon Warren, 70, $386; 5. Seth Berg, 60, $225; no other qualified rides.
Steer wrestling: 1. Jayce Doan, 4.2 seconds, $752; 2. Tanner Scheevel, 4.5, $564; 3. Landon Sivertsen, 6.2, $376; 4. Lucas Camac, 6.6, $188.
Team roping: 1. Braden Pirrung/Dylan Hart, 7.1 seconds, $954 each; 2. Henry Dean/J.W. Nelson, 8.4, $790; 3. Dylan Campbell/Colton Mason, 8.5, $625; 4. Joe Jacobsen/Mason Okke, 8.6, $461; 5. Brent LaPierre/Weston LaPierre, 14.2, $296; 6. Ryan Melby/Clinton Cook, 16.3, $165.
Saddle bronc riding: 1. Kash Deal, 80 points on Barnes PRCA Rodeo’s No. E9, $1,173; 2. John Thelen, 77, $888; 3. Taygen Schuelke, 70, $640; 4. Jason Cole, 59, $426; no other qualified rides.
Tie-down roping: 1. Rex Treeby, 9.6 seconds, $790; 2. Wyatt Treeby, 10.6, $592; 3. Ty Moser, 11.0, $395; 4. Lee Sivertsen, 12.5, $197.
Bull riding: No qualified rides.
Total payoff: $21,693. Stock contractor: Barnes PRCA Rodeo. Sub-contractor: Redline Pro Rodeo. Rodeo secretary: Andrea Moon. Officials: Scott Kellerman and Doug Staton. Timer: Val Lundquist. Announcer: Kory Keeth. Specialty act: Melissa Navarre. Bullfighter: Austin Tilton. Clown/barrelman: Jesse Larson. Flankmen: Westin Barnes and Billy Weegar. Chute boss: Westin Barnes. Pickup men: Garrett Underwood and Colton Thorson.
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Jackson attending the rodeo as a baby with his mother, Crystal, in 2015. Photo courtesy of Kloos family
Jackson practicing his bareback riding skills following the Hawley Rodeo in 2024. Photo courtesy of Kloos family