Texas A&M rodeo team members recently claimed national titles at the College National Finals Rodeo, CNFR, in Casper, Wyoming. The Aggie women’s team finished third in the nation.
Madalyn Richards, an agricultural communications and journalism major from Hereford, was named the 2024 Breakaway Roping Champion and earned the 2024 Women’s All-Around title. Tylie McDonald, freshman agricultural communications and journalism major from College Station, was named the 2024 Rookie Goat Tying Champion, and Gavin French, senior animal science major from Fredericksburg, placed fifth in the nation in bareback riding.
The event was the last one for Al Wagner, Ph.D., retiring rodeo coach and food technologist in the Department of Horticultural Sciences. He expressed his immense pride in the team’s performance and gratitude for the memories made in nearly three decades of coaching the rodeo team. The rodeo team’s incoming coach, Roger Hanagriff, Ph.D., is also an instructional associate professor in the Department of Animal Science.
PHOTO: Madalyn Richards ’25, of Hereford, collects her champion saddles with Aggie Rodeo coach Al Wagner, Ph.D., after being named the 2024 Breakaway Roping Champion and earning the 2024 Women’s All-Around title during College National Finals Rodeo in Casper, Wyoming. (Michael Miller/Texas A&M AgriLife)
