MULTITASKING Young Adds Red Bluff Title to Resume By Joe Kusek H adley Young was in no mood to watch breakaway roping. It was hot, late in the day and she needed a nap. The 18-month-old daughter of Macy and Chris Young was letting everyone know within earshot that she was not happy. “She was mad. She was screaming,” said her mother. “It was just a wreck.” Hadley wanted her mother. But mommy was busy.
Macy Young handed Hadley off to her husband, “Chris has to keep her at a distance from me,” she said and promptly clipped off a time of 2.8 seconds to win the first round of breakaway roping at the Red Bluff Round-Up, April 21-23. The accomplished roper from Wittmann, Arizona followed with a time of 3.5 seconds to share fifth place in the second round and win the average in her first time entering Red Bluff. “It’s a real cool feeling,” Young said of winning one of the major rodeos of the spring. “It’s a cool atmosphere. The arena is so big. The crowd is awesome.” Young left Frank Moore Arena with $4,589. The money lifted her into the top 35 for the WPRA world standings. Young was the last roper out. “Honestly, I didn’t pay that close attention,” she said of the ropers who went before her. “My horse, I knew he was going to be fast, and I knew I had a good calf. I roped like it was a practice calf.” And things were a little quieter. “She and Chris were sleeping in the trailer before the short round,” Young added. “I just went out and roped my own game.” Young has been pretty good at the roping game with a list of
Rodeo. Both served as rodeo coaches for Lewis-Clark State College. Young, then Macy Fuller, grew up in Clarkston, Washington. The family has lived in Arizona for the past 13 years where they run a commercial arena in Wickenburg. The multi-event competitor won an unprecedented seven consecutive state all-around titles in junior high and high school. Young swept the national intercollegiate all-around cowgirl and breakaway roping titles for Central Arizona College at the CNFR in 2014. She was also second in goat tying. Young qualified for the National Finals Breakaway Roping in 2020, finishing 10th in the WPRA world standings. Last year, she shared the Cheyenne Frontier Days title with Tiffany Schieck. Young is riding MK Judge Boomer, better known as Boomer. The nine-year-old bay out of Judge Cash and sired by The Dueller, started as a barrel racing horse but came to a complete stop after his futurity year. “He got really sick with ulcers,” said Young. “Our vet said it was the worst ulcers he had ever seen. Boomer was bleeding internally. We gave him the year off. We just doctored him every day and slowly brought him back. “Then it was the start of a new adventure.” Boomer did not take to team roping, so Young used him in breakaway roping. “The biggest thing is he is fast,” she said. “He just doesn’t run to run. He runs straight to the calf.” Chris Young is a team roping heeler. The couple – married two years this September – practices every day. “He has helped me a lot,” Young said of her partner. “He has helped me with my horsemanship. Macy Young won the first round of the breakaway roping at the Red Bluff (CA) Round-Up in a time of 2.8 seconds and added a 3.5 second run in the second round to win the average in a total time of 6.3 seconds. Photo by Fernando Sam-Sin
accomplishments that go up and down both sleeves of her shirt. Born into rodeo – father Mike Fuller was a team roper, narrowly missing the Wrangler National Finals three times and a former Columbia River Circuit champion while mother Karen was the reserve champion in goat tying for Cal Poly at the College National Finals Macy Young roped her way to the average title at the Red Bluff (CA) Round-Up picking up $4,589 which moved her into the top 35 of the ProRodeo Breakaway World Standings. Photo by Fernando Sam-Sin
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