By CONNOR GRAY, Assistant Editor
The Northwestern rodeo team will start the second half of the season Feb. 18 at Kansas State University in Manhattan.
As of now, the Rangers are in ninth place out of 13 teams, and the Lady Rangers are seventh out of 11 teams.
Despite the placement of the teams, both teams have individuals in the Top 10.
For the men, Kerry Duvall is in sixth place overall in tie-down roping out of 16 other competitors who have placed.
Duvall has 150 points, but is only five points away from being in the Top 5.
Kaden Greenfield, Emmett Edler and Tyler Scheevel are second, eleventh, and fifteenth, respectively, in steer wrestling.
Greenfield has 260 points.
In team roping, Northwestern has four in the Top 10, with Stran Morris, Shane Hoelting, Jaden Trimble and Reed Murray in third, fourth, eighth and ninth, respectively, out of 16 competitors.
For team-roping, heeler Austin Lompe, Jaydon Laubhan and Rhett Murray are in fifth, seventh and ninth out of 16.
All three Rangers have at least 100 points, with Lompe leading the Rangers with 155 points.
For the Lady Rangers, only two have placed, each in a different category.
Samantha Chambers in barrel racing and Hannah Zimmers in breakaway roping are both in seventh place.
After the rodeo at Kansas State, the Rangers will have five more rodeos to compete in throughout March and April.
The Rangers have one rodeo in March and four in April.
The final rodeo of the season will be from April 28 to 30 in Guymon.