Amazing High School Senior is One of the Favorites at the Bull Bash

Saturday night, February 21st, the Locust Grove Pirates will host the Glenpool Warriors in the first round of the Oklahoma 4A basketball playoffs.  One of the better perimeter shooters for the Pirates will not be at the game, he'll be in Lufkin riding bulls.   

Wyatt Rogers is 18 years old and a high school senior...and he just happens to be 2nd in the overall CBR standings.  If he rides two bulls Saturday at the Bull Bash in Lufkin, Rogers will take over the top spot.  He would love to ride three.

That's exactly what Rogers did at a CBR event in Mercedes, TX back in October.  Rogers had just turned 18 and in his first ever professional bull riding event, he out rode them all, on his way to a $43,000 payout.  That's him in the picture riding the 3rd bull in the Shoot Out Round.

Now you understand why he's choosing to come to Lufkin as opposed to firing some shots from beyond the 3-point line.

Rogers is confident, but certainly not cocky.  He can make friends just as easily with a high school underclassman as he can with a 10-year veteran of bull riding. There are plenty of girls that he calls friends, but there's not that someone special.  And, he would prefer to keep in that way.  He wants to stay focused on bull riding for now.

Saturday night at the George H Henderson Jr Expo Center in Lufkin, Tuff Hedemann has invited Wyatt and 23 of the best bull riders in the business to compete in the 26th year of the Lufkin Bull Bash.  The riding starts at 8 and when a champion is crowned, Josh Ward will take the stage.

As for Wyatt Rogers, here's hoping he gets a nice paycheck.  And, by the way, win or lose, the Locust Grove Pirates will have another playoff game on Thursday.

Maybe he can make that one.