Kyla Matthews
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- Hometown:
- Athens, TN
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- Year:
- So.
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- High School:
- Aaron Academy
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- Events:
- GBR, TR
News mentions
Exciting collegiate rodeo action returns to the Lauderdale County Agri-Center this coming week (March 18-20), as East Mississippi Community College’s 9th Annual Intercollegiate Rodeo kicks off Thursday in Meridian. The three-day event will conclude with Saturday night’s championship round.
At the midway point of the 2020-21 college rodeo season, the East Mississippi Community College men’s and women’s teams both rank among the nation’s top 10 in the fall season standings of the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association (NIRA).
In earning the top two individual finishes in barrel racing and breakaway roping, the East Mississippi Community College women’s rodeo team set a program record by totaling 475 team points in claiming the women’s team title of the Southern Arkansas University College Rodeo this past weekend. The EMCC men finished in fifth place at the three-day event held at Story Arena in Magnolia, Arkansas.
The East Mississippi Community College rodeo teams claimed three individual event titles during this past weekend’s UWA College Rodeo Showdown, while earning a second straight third-place men’s team finish and placing fourth in the women’s competition. The three-day rodeo hosted by the University of West Alabama concluded Saturday night at Meridian’s Lauderdale County Agri-Center.
The East Mississippi Community College rodeo teams combined for four individual event championships to claim third-place team finishes in men’s and women’s competition at the Missouri Valley College-hosted Viking Stampede Rodeo this past weekend. The season-opening, three-day event concluded Saturday night at the Saline County Fairgrounds.
East Mississippi Community College’s 2020-21 sports season looks to officially get underway this week (Sept. 17-19) as the EMCC men’s and women’s rodeo teams are scheduled to open the fall portion of the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association’s Ozark Region schedule in Missouri.