Cowboys & College
Education is empowering. Though diplomas don’t come with a money-back guarantee for automatic success, higher learning does tend to open doors to more choices in life, fan the flames of financial freedom when applied to a passionate path and, generally, expand horizons. They say knowledge is power, and there doesn’t seem to be a downside to knowing more. Rodeo cowboys are diverse when it comes to academic achievement. Some stuck it out in school. Others flew the college coop the first chance they felt like they had a legit chance to win at the world-class level. By no means does a successful career require a bachelor’s degree. But there are some fun scholastic success stories among us in the cowboy sport.
Logan Medlin
Agricultural Economics, 2014 Eastern New Mexico University
Medlin heeled for Charly Crawford at his first NFR last December.
“My mom (Lisa) was a high school teacher, and my dad (Jeff, who heeled at the NFR in 1991 and 1996) felt strongly about me going to college,” said Logan, who won back-to-back National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association team roping titles with Billy Bob Brown in 2013-14. “After I graduated college, they were supportive and all behind what
