Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo – Semi Finals 2 – Release & Results

All-round race heads to championship on Sunday at Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo

CHEYENNE, Wyoming, July 27, 2024 — Thanks to Saturday’s semi-finals 2, the all-round cowboy race on the 128^e Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo (CFD) will culminate in a championship battle between two Oklahomans on Sunday.

Rough stock rider Wacey Schalla, from the small western Oklahoma town of Arapaho, won the bareback riding in Semifinal 2 with an 88-point ride aboard the Stace Smith Rodeo bucking horse Independence. The 18-year-old cowboy, in his rookie season of professional rodeo, won both the all-around and bull riding championships at the College National Finals Rodeo in June.

On Friday, he won the semifinal 1 in bull riding with 91 points, the highest score of the rodeo so far. He will compete in both events on Sunday at Frontier Park. He has earned about $11,600 so far this year at CFD.

Schalla’s rival for the coveted all-around championship at Daddy of ‘em All is 2022 CFD All-Around champion Coleman Proctor. Proctor, who hails from the slightly larger eastern Oklahoma city of Pryor, is more than twice Schalla’s age at 38. He’s the veteran of the pair, having qualified for eight Wrangler National Finals Rodeos (NFR) in team roping.

In the second semifinal, Proctor and his partner Logan Medlin of Tatum, New Mexico, finished third in team roping. They have each won nearly $7,200 in that event at CFD so far. Proctor also competes in steer roping and enters Sunday’s championship as the top-ranked cowboy in that event with nearly $11,000 in winnings during the earlier rounds.

While Proctor holds a healthy lead in money won, the Championship Sunday competition at the Daddy of ’em All could surprise even the experts. Proctor will compete first in the steer roping, with Schalla following closely behind in the bareback riding. Proctor is back in team roping four events later, with Schalla returning in the bull riding toward the end of the finals.

The winner with the highest money in Semi-Final 2 was bull rider Jace Trosclair of Chavin, La. He was the only bull rider to make a qualifying ride on Saturday. He scored 86 points on Dakota Rodeo’s bull Bubba G and earned almost $9,500.

Amanda Terrell of LaSalle, Colorado, tied the fastest time of the 2024 CFD when she won the breakaway roping with a time of 3.8 seconds. The recent college graduate will return to Texas Tech University this fall to pursue her master’s degree in agricultural communications and continue competing on the Red Raiders rodeo team.

In barrel racing, Leslie Smalygo of Skiatook, Oklahoma, and her 13-year-old gelding Justaheartbeattofame, who she calls Gus, stopped the clock in 17.09 seconds to win the Semifinals 2. On Thursday, they tied in the Quarterfinals 6 and on July 17^e they won the progressive round of barrel racing. The duo won the Calgary Stampede earlier in July and would love to win two of the most iconic rodeo events in the same month.

Other winners of the second semifinal were steer wrestler Dakota Eldridge of Elko, Nevada, with 5.9 seconds; Gus Gaillard of Morse, Texas, with 87.5 points aboard the Brookman Rodeo bucking horse Satisfaction in the saddle bronc; brothers Riley and Brady Minor of Ellensburg, Washington, who compete in team roping, with 10.1 seconds; and tie-down roper Britt Bedke of Oakley, Idaho, with 12.5.

The Rookie Saddle Bronc Riding champion was crowned on Saturday, with the title going to Clint Read of Wildwood, Alberta, Canada. He scored a total of 159 points with two bucking horses to take home the prize package.

The 2024 Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo begins Sunday at 12:45 p.m. and concludes with the awarding of champions in 10 events. The all-around and all-around winners will take home a share of the more than $1 million prize pool.

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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (July 27, 2024) – Following are the unofficial results from the second semifinal (eighth event) at the Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo on Saturday, July 26. The top six finishers from each event advance to the championship on Sunday.