Rodeo athlete, Raegan Delancey, aspires to become the best person she can be so she can follow her dream of passing on her family’s legacy.
Delancey is from a ranch in Cheyenne, Wyoming where she grew up riding and raising performance horses with her family.
“That’s been a big piece of my life.” Delancey said.
Delancey’s family has two stallions in their breeding program, Heza Fiery Fling, or ‘Mick,’ and Fiesta’s Dynasty, or as they call him, ‘Fiesta.’ Both stallions have been successful and Delancey is actually pursuing her college rodeo career on Fiesta in barrel racing.
“It’s been awesome. This is definitely something I want to continue to do with my life. And I just want to continue to raise horses for everyone.”
The Cheyenne native is a sophomore majoring in agricultural communications. Delancey competes in breakaway roping, team roping, and barrel racing with the University of Wyoming Rodeo team. Of the events that she does, breakaway roping is the one she enjoys most.
“Breakaway roping is by far my favorite. I just kind of barrel race for fun but I got a pretty good horse so I’m pretty lucky.” Delancey said.
The sophomore redshirted her freshman year, meaning she was a part of the team but did not compete in order to grow her skills for the first year.. Starting her second year, Delancey is reaching for the ultimate goal of a national title by the time she is a senior. To get there, she strives to carry her successful first fall season into the spring season with adding personal growth.
“I made the short go a couple of times and was just right up there in them and I want to continue that into the spring and continue to build and make more short go’s. I want to just get with my horses a little bit more since I am roping off some not very seasoned horses.”
When she is a senior, Delancey has a lot of things planned out for herself, but to become a national champion in breakaway roping would mean the most to her.
Recently Delancey’s family purchased a magazine called The Wrangler Horse and Rodeo News. When she graduates, Delancey wants to take over the ownership of that magazine, hence why she studies agricultural communications.
“As soon as I am out of college I’m going to take that over fully and just use it to grow the magazine and kind of just represent the cowboy culture and Western industry.” Delancey said.
Outside of academics and agriculture, Delancey used to participate in basketball and loves to paddle board, but it is certain that the Western industry is where she wants to grow her legacy.
“Roping and ranching and raising colts and training them is really my whole personality.”
