Women have been in rodeo since rodeo began but, as has happened so often, as the sport began gaining popularity, women were pushed out. Maybe it was because cowboys couldn’t bear to be bested by ...

CHEYENNE — How do you define a cowgirl in Wyoming? First, you have to look back to their beginning, when cowgirls really started showing their tough buckskin in the rodeo world. Wyoming cowgirls have ...

October 20-21, the 2023 Women’s Ranch Rodeo Association/Ritchey Tags World Finals Rodeo will take place in Pawhuska, Oklahoma. The ladies will compete over the course of two days to determine the ...

The best female roughstock competitors from across the globe battled it out for the Women’s Ranch Bronc Riding World Championship as part of Cheyenne Frontier Days on Sunday. No matter how many times ...

Cheyenne Frontier Days is preparing for another year of rodeo and music fun in Cheyenne. In 2024 the theme of the rodeo is the year of the cowgirl. The team at CFD underscored their commitment to the ...

Women competed at the first indoor rodeo event at the Fort Worth, Texas, Coliseum in 1918. By 1920, they were participating in rodeos as relay racers, rough stock riders and trick riders. In 1928, one ...

Women in professional rodeo will now have their own league season. Professional Bull Riders (PBR), the largest bull riding league in the world headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, announced the ...

CHEYENNE - Although women have never been part of the top Frontier Days leadership, the rodeo has a colorful and long history of competing cowgirls. They were among the first modern professional ...

Several Cowgirls, not selected for the women’s four-person points team, also excelled at CSU, including Olivia Lay, of Elbert, Colo., who was named the rodeo’s all-around champion. She and UW teammate ...

Saddle up, it’s officially rodeo season in Houston! Journalist Taylor Crumpton coined the term “been country” in reference to the critics questioning the authenticity of Beyoncè’s first full-length ...