RIDER RUNDOWN with...
Brett Hopp By Katlin Truelsen CAC Media Group
While the weather may be getting colder here in Iowa, some of our riders are still getting in on the rodeo action down south in Oklahoma and Texas including this month’s rider, Brett Hopp. Hopp is a native of Illinois, about an hour and a half from my neck of the woods in Iowa, and I had a chance to chat with him while he was riding in Mesquite, Texas at the World Championship
Miniature Bull Riders World Finals. Here is what he had to say. KT: Hey, Brett, thanks for making time to chat today. Can you please tell our readers your name and grade? BH: I am Brett Hopp, I am a junior and I am 16 years old. KT: Where are you from? BH: I am from Toulon, Illinois KT: What is the size of your school? BH: There are about 60 kids in my class, which is pretty small. KT: How does it feel to be one of the only kids that rodeos around you? BH: It’s pretty cool. It’s hard because they don’t understand how big the rodeo is, even my teachers don’t get it. Right now, I am in Texas riding, and they don’t understand exactly how big of a deal it is and what I have to put into it. But the school is good at shouting me out on the announcements for some stuff, which is cool. KT: That is cool. I don’t think most of the teachers at my school would understand that either. Can you tell us how did you got into rodeo if it isn’t big in your area? BH: We have such a small town, and most kids show livestock. Nobody has really grown up with rodeo like I have. I have been around livestock and farming my whole life, but my cousins rode bulls, which is how I got into it.
Brett Hopp - 16 years old - Toulon, Illinois Humps-Horns.com · 9 · November 2023
