Sam Houston State University’s Campbell Grover setting rodeo world on fire

HOUSTON — The Houston Livestock Present and Rodeo is in its third week and what higher time to rejoice ladies in rodeo than throughout Ladies’s Historical past Month.

Get to know Campbell Grover, one of many prime barrel racers within the South.

Grover, 22, is a champion. Practically each weekend the Sam Houston State College senior is on the street rodeoing. She began when she was 5. Her dad was her coach.

“Horses actually do train you numerous about your self. They usually actually do train you methods to be sturdy and methods to be selfless,” Grover stated.

For years, barrel racing was the one sport by which feminine rodeo athletes might compete.

“There’s nothing like working barrels is such an adrenaline rush,” Grover stated.

That later grew to incorporate roping occasions and extra.

“For instance, breakaway roping … it is grown a lot and it is due to these sturdy ladies previously and the current preventing for our occasions to develop,” Grover stated.

SHSU Rodeo coach Bubba Miller recruited Grover and has seen her develop through the years.

“The ladies are competing for simply the identical prize cash as the boys,” Miller stated.

SHSU has extra nationwide rodeo titles than every other faculty within the nation. Of his 60 rodeo athletes, 35 are ladies.

“Her and her horse have set faculty rodeo on hearth. She is within the prime 5 within the Southern Area,” Miller stated.

Rodeo is just not the one factor by which Grover excels. She’s additionally on the verge of a serious accomplishment.

“I will graduate this summer season with a biomedical science diploma and a minor in psychology. And my plan is to get in medical college and develop into a physician,” she stated.