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Spring 2012 Member News
To follow is very important information to keep in mind over the winter break from rodeo. Please feel free to call or email me if you have any questions.
Read the Cowboy’s Digest, the MHSRA website and your NHSRA Rule book to keep in touch with the current news and rules that you need to be aware of. Remember it is the member’s responsibility to know the rules and deadlines, with nearly 400 members in MHSRA our Association must stand by the rules and deadlines posted.
1st Semester Grades – YOU MUST TURN IN YOUR FALL SEMESTER GRADES TO UPDATE YOUR ELIGIBILITY. Fall semester grades are due to the State Office before the "Membership Card Must Be Complete By" date listed on each rodeo listing in the Cowboy’s Digest and on the website. If your grades are not in by the date listed, you will be ineligible to enter with Central Entry. Grades may be mailed, faxed 726-8997, or emailed to the State Office.
Verify Eligibility - Check your eligibility status on the MHSRA website. If your name is not on the eligible members list, you are not eligible to rodeo, cut, or participate in sanctioned events. Note: The eligible member list will be cleared on January 16, 2012, and members will be made eligible as fall semester grades, turn out payments and medical releases are received. Remember that you will also need to turn in your spring semester grades at the State Finals rodeo in June.
State Rodeo Finals 2012 – The MHSRA State Rodeo Finals will be held in Bozeman, MT, June 6-10, 2012. The entry fees at state will be $100 per event plus a mandatory $30 jack pot fee per event. All office fees, gate fees, judges fees, and Central Entry fees are included in the $100 entry fee. You will be receiving registration for camping and stalls in the mail from the host committee. Pay attention to the due dates on that paperwork. You may also visit the State Finals host committee's website for registration forms at www.hsfinalsrodeo.org. The State Finals rodeo Central Entry date will be Tuesday, May 29, 2012, (406)752-1448.
Spring 2012 Schedule – The spring rodeo/cutting schedule will be posted on the website in late December/early January. There will not be any District rodeos or cuttings held again this season.
Scholarship Information – Seniors: Scholarship information will be available from the MHSRA website in March 2012.
Fundraiser Raffle Tickets – This is a reminder that each member must sell 30 raffle tickets and mail them to Rhonda Nordahl by the April 30, 2012 deadline in order to enter the State Finals rodeo. Members may continue to sell tickets up until the day of the drawing (6/10/12), but members must turn in their first 30 sold tickets by the April 30th deadline. Please refer to the raffle ticket information letter included in your membership packet. Other important deadlines and opportunities for this 2011-2012 trailer raffle fundraiser include:
- Any member that sells 40 tickets and has their money and ticket stubs mailed in to Rhonda Nordahl by February 1, 2012, will be eligible to receive $100 towards a rodeo school/clinic. The school must be MHSRA sanctioned. This is a great opportunity, please take advantage of it. If you are interested in a rodeo school or clinic please have them contact the MHSRA State Office to receive approval and insurance paperwork. Only those schools or clinics covered under MHSRA insurance are MHSRA approved and sanctioned. This paperwork must be completed and approved prior to the school or clinic being held.
- Any member that sells 50 or more raffle tickets is eligible to qualify for 2012 NHSFR or NJHSFR bonus money of $2 per point earned at the NHSFR or NJHSFR, maximum of $1000.
-All senior member in good standing who submits a scholarship application and participates in the interview process during the State Finals 2012 will be awarded a $300 scholastic scholarship.
-The top ticket selling member will receive a $500 scholastic scholarship upon high school graduation to match MHSRA’s scholarship recipient criteria.
-Top 20 ticket sales members in both the junior high and high school divisions combined will receive 10% of their ticket sales back.
Send ticket stubs and sales money to:
Rhonda Nordahl 4740 Arrowhead Dr. Helena MT 59602
DO NOT SEND CASH
MHSRA Sanctioned Clinics
Anyone wanting to advertise a Clinic must first contact and advertise through the MHSRA official newsletter, The Cowboy Digest.
The Cowboy Digest contact info:
The Cowboy's Digest PO Box 97 Laurel MT 59044
Phone: (406)628-6456
email: info@cowboysdigest.com
website: www.cowboysdigest.com
RULES CLARIFICATIONS:
Contestant Attire - NHSRA Rule book, page 30 (5.a.1.), Contestant parent, adults, helpers and assistants must wear western attire: western hat, long sleeved shirt (must be wrist length sleeved shirt, with collar and cuffs. No sweat shirts, T-shirts or pullover sweaters allowed), western boots, and western trousers at all time during a performance while in the following areas: the arenas, chute area, stock working areas. Any contestant in any seating area, whether competing or not.
Call Backs - Call backs are on Thursday after entry for a rodeo. At call back, you may draw out of that rodeo or confirm your entry. If you drive to a rodeo and are not listed on the program, the local secretary will confirm with your call back number and you will be allowed to rodeo. If you did not call back for that rodeo and are not listed in the program, you will not participate. Entries and call backs are recorded.
Turn Out Charge - A turn out charge of $10 per rodeo will be charged in addition to fees to that rodeo. Turn out charges must be paid before rodeoing again.
Bad Checks - There will be a $25 charge for issuing a NSF check at a rodeo and after one time the member will be on a cash only basis, with their name on list to all rodeo secretaries.
Medical Insurance - If you are hurt at a rodeo, get a claim form from the local rodeo secretary (make sure she signs the bottom section). Show your membership card as proof of insurance to medical people and collect all bills yourself and submit them to the address on the top of the form. Remember the high school insurance is a secondary insurance. Claims against your own personal insurance will be 1st - unless the high school rodeo insurance is the only insurance that is being carried - then it will be primary.
Medical Release / Veterinary Release - If a contestant meds or vets out of a rodeo/cutting, the release must be signed by a doctor or veterinarian and be turned into the State Secretary to arrive within 72 hours of that rodeo/cutting. If a contestant pays their fees and then vets out of an event, no fees will be refunded to the contestant. This was passed at the MHSRA Board of Directors meeting in Great Falls, MT, January 16, 2010.
Medical Release from Rodeos - NHSRA Rule book, page 31 (5.c.2.c.) , A contestant with a visible injury or illness may turn out of any event at a rodeo without a doctor’s written excuse provided notification of such turn out is authorized by a judge or National Director at the given rodeo. If a contestant has drawn out with a visible injury he/she must have a doctor’s release to resume competition. A contestant that has been injured and has received medical care at a hospital or urgent care facility must have a doctor’s release before the contestant is allowed to resume competition. If a contestant has presented a doctor’s release to draw out, he/she must present another doctor’s release to resume competition.