EHAL Magazine February 2017

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Everything Horses and Livestock Magazine
By EHAL Staff & Karla Boots
Family, Friends, Fun
& Fast Horses
That just begins to describe the Exciting Rodeo Life
for Miss Karlee Boots. Karlee is the Daughter of Justin
and Karla Boots of Welda, Kansas. Mom and Dad
own Pair of Boots Trucking, raise cattle, team rope
and mom runs barrels too. Youngest brother, Stetson,
plays football,
basketball, is
the catcher on
his baseball
team and has
started to rope.
Karlee’s older
brother, Dakota
Milner, is an ac-
complished Team Roper. This is a hard working busy
family.
The 2016 rodeo season was the tops for this young
cowgirl. As you read about her year, you will under-
stand why. As most families that rodeo, farm, ranch,
or play sports know, competing and winning takes a
lot of dedication from everyone and Karlee right in the
middle of it.
She is a member of the Southeast Kansas Little
Britches Rodeo Association and competed in the 8
& under, Little Wrangler Division. Running barrels,
poles, flags and goat tying during 5 weekends of
SEKLBR rodeos, Karlee’s personal best shined as
she was awarded the All Around Champion Buckle
winner at each of them.
The National Little Britches Rodeo Finals were held
at Lazy E arena in Guthrie OK this year. This was the
first year for the finals to be held in Oklahoma and the
first NLBRA finals for Karlee. Karlee had an amazing
finals winning 12 Belt buckles and 4 sets of Montana
Silversmith Trophy Spurs, $900 in College scholarship
money and over $1400 in Prize money.
In the Short Round she Won the Flag race with her
fastest time of the year an 8.1 sec run. She also won
2nd in Poles, 3rd in Barrels and 5th in the Goat tail
untying.
Her biggest accomplishment was
Reserve All Around Champion of
the world and of the 2016 finals right
behind her good friend and toughest
competition all year long, Jackson
Schmidt.
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