AMES, Iowa – The Black Hills State University rodeo team traveled to Ames, Iowa this past weekend to compete in the 2024 Cyclone Stampede, hosted by Iowa State University at the Hanson Agricultural Learning Center. BHSU had a great weekend of competition with both the men and women coming home with team titles.  
 
Haven Jones (Sr., Twin Falls, Idaho) brought home the women's All-Around title for the stampede. She won the barrel racing event and had a second-place finish in the goat tying. Teammate Riley Donnelly (Sr., Elk Point, S.D.) won the reserve All-Around with a tied-for-third-place finish in the goat tying with BHSU's Cashae McGee (Gr., Rhame, N.D.). Donnelly also was fourth in the long go of the breakaway roping. 
 
Other top finishers for the Yellow Jackets in the breakaway roping included Tessa Caspers (Jr., New Underwood, S.D.) in second-place; Emma Ohm (So., Hyannis, Neb.) in fourth-place; Sydney Theobald (Gr., Ft. Pierre, S.D.) in fifth-place, and Jaycee Wooters (Gr., Elwood, Neb.) sixth-place. Jayme Peterson (Sr., Belle Fourche, S.D.) placed sixth in the long go of the breakaway and in the barrel racing Katelyn Eisenbeis (Jr., Mandan, N.D.) had a fifth-place finish.
 
On the BHSU men's side, Riley Staton brought home the reserve All-Around title, as well as the Tie Down Roping and Heeling Championships. Treg Thorstenson  teamed up with Jess Harper (Fr., Faith, S.D.) to place second in the team roping. Thorstenson also won the long go of the tie down roping. 
 
Other placings for the BHSU men included: Luke Mavity was third in the team roping and Swade Reis (Fr., Chamberlain, S.D.) also placed fifth in the tie down. 
 
BHSU Individual Results are as follows:
MEN'S TEAM - 1st 610 points
WOMEN'S TEAM - 1st 520 points
 
MEN'S RESERVE ALL-AROUND - Riley Staton
WOMEN'S ALL-AROUND - Haven Jones
WOMEN'S RESERVE ALL-AROUND - Riley Donnelly
 
GOAT TYING
2nd Haven Jones, 12.6 on two.
3rd Riley Donnelly & Cashae McGee, 13.0 on two.
 
TIE DOWN
1st Riley Staton, 21.9 on two
5th Swade Reis, 25.4 on two
Treg Thorstenson 1st in the long go with a 10.0
 
BREAKAWAY
2nd Tessa Caspers, 7.4 on two
4th Emma Ohm, 7.5 on two
5th Sydney Theobald, 15.7 on two
6th Jaycee Wooters, 16.6 on two
Riley Donnelly 4th in the long go with a 2.8
Jayme Peterson 6th in the long go with a 3.0
 
TEAM ROPING
1st Riley Staton, 19.2 on two
2nd Treg Thorstenson & Jess Harper, 24.7 on two.
3rd Luke Mavity, 28.1 on two
 
BARREL RACE
1st Haven Jones, 27.12 on two.
5th Katelyn Eisenbeis, 27.80 on two.
 
Up Next: The Yellow Jackets will travel to Brookings, South Dakota for the Jackrabbit Stampede on April 12-13.