Fifty of college rodeo’s fastest cowgirls are headed to the Ford Wyoming Center in Casper, Wyoming, for the College National Finals Rodeo, June 14–20, with a collegiate national barrel racing title and the average on the line.
The CNFR is the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association’s season-ending championship. The barrel racers qualified out of the NIRA’s 11 regions, the top three in each region’s standings plus team members, and they run three go-rounds in Casper before the field narrows for Saturday’s short go. The average decides the national champion.
Barrel racing opens in Monday-morning slack on June 15 (Go-Round 1), with Go-Round 2 in Tuesday-morning slack on June 16. Go-Round 3 is split across the four nightly performances, Tuesday through Friday at 7 p.m. The championship short round runs Saturday, June 20, at 7 p.m.




