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Ute Stampede Next week

Ute Stampede fans will see the hottest and most awesome act in professional rodeo, when the Wild Child, Troy Lerwill, dazzles you with a daredevil motorcycle ride, which culminates in an awe-inspiring jump.

Troy was runner-up for act of the year in 2001 and in 2002 his act was voted best in the PRCA.

Troy was born and raised in Payson, Utah, to a rodeo family. They bought him his first horse when he was four years old. About the time he reached ten, he was thinking that ole horse was a little too slow and didn't make near enough noise, so he started riding motorcycles. Within a few years he entered his first motorcycle race. Six years later he was number one in the State of Utah in professional motor cross.

In 1994 he started his bullfighting career and in 1997 he joined the PRCA. During this time he was wondering how he could use his motor cross experience for a specialty act in rodeo. He thought that it might be neat to jump a Dodge pick up truck and a Sundowner trailer with his dirt bike.

Late in 1999 Troy was lucky enough to meet Cotton Rosser at a rodeo in Spanish Fork, Utah, which the past PRCA President Bob Fain was producing. Cotton and Bob are longtime friends and Cotton and his wife Karen were there helping get the rodeo started, Cotton had invited Lewis Fields, former champion and all around cowboy of the world and Ute Stampede Committeeman, Bob Garrett to be the pickup men.

Cotton and Bob hired Troy that night to perform at the 2000 Ute Stampede. From that meeting it has been a great success story for the Wild Child, he has performed at most of the Flying U Rodeo's, the Calgary Starnpede, Houston Rodeo, Denver Stock Show and many more of North America's major rodeos.

Troy told the Ute Stampede Committee; Ike Lunt, Bob Day, Leo Osborne, Lee Olsen, Dave Johnson, Ted Jones and Bob Garrett that he has always felt a special kinship with the their rodeo. He has been coming to the Ute Stampede with his family and friends from the time he was a little wild child.

This year he will be our Specialty Act, our Funnyman and our Man-In-The-Can. Welcome back Troy, this will be a fun filled Ute Stampede.

To get your rodeo tickets now, call 435-623-5608.