Ace Reese | No. 4 in the rookie standings
Reese finished fifth in Performance Four with a 12.5-second run.
Sam Lewis | No. 5 in the rookie standings
Lewis won Performance Two with a 10.7-second run, good for $2,000.
Jayden Broussard | No. 7 in the rookie standings
Broussard finished second in Performance Five with a 12.2-second run.
Dalton Porch | No. 8 in the rookie standings
Porch finished fifth in Performance Three with a 13.6-second run.
Tate Talkington | No. 11 in the rookie standings
Talkington finished second in Performance Three with an 11.6-second run.
Past Rookies in the Semifinals
Shane Hanchey | 2009 Rookie of the Year
Hanchey finished second in Performance Four with an 11.7-second run. Although not his rookie year, Hanchey won Cheyenne in 2018.
Haven Meged | 2019 Rookie of the Year
Meged finished second in Performance One with an 11.3-second run.
Luke Potter | 2020 Rookie of the Year
Potter tied for first in the second Wild Card round with an 11.4-second run to punch his ticket to the semifinals. Potter has also won Cheyenne in a year other than his rookie year, in 2023.
Dylan Hancock | 2023 Rookie of the Year
Hancock won Performance One with a 10.4-second run, good for $2,000.
Cole Clemons | 2024 Rookie of the Year
Clemons won the first Wild Card round with a 10.6-second run to advance.
Tyler Calhoun | 2025 Rookie of the Year
Calhoun won Performance Six with a 10.2-second run, good for $2,000.
Only Rookie to Win Cheyenne
In more than a century of tie-down roping at Cheyenne, Ricky Canton is the only man to win the Daddy and the Resistol Rookie of the Year title in the same year, doing it in 1987. Canton would come back and win Cheyenne again in 2005.
