Serving the High Plains
Serving the High Plains
Mesalands Community College has a new rodeo coach, and he’s holds some familiarity with the Stampede program because he helped guide athletes against it.
Mesalands interim president Allen Moss announced last week the hiring of Bo Segerman to take over the Stampede. Segerman had been an assistant rodeo coach for two years at New Mexico State University, a rival to Mesalands in the Grand Canyon Region.
Segerman said NMSU’s head coach told him about the opening in Tucumcari.
“I think it’s a great program,” he said in a phone interview last week. “I think there’s a lot of room for improvement up there. It’s an incredible opportunity to me. You can’t pass it up.”
Segerman was asked what he wanted to improve with the Mesalands rodeo program.
“I think there’s a chance to compete on both sides of the arena,” he said. “They’re mostly a roughstock team right now. We want more athletes in the timed-event side of things. I will still carry a large roughstock team as well.
“My strengths are as a coach is I’m very versatile in the arena, as I rode bucking horses and I competed in the timed events. And I love to win,” he added. “I’m looking forward to building relationships in the community.”
Segerman hails from Touchet, Washington. In college, he competed in bronc riding, team roping, calf roping and steer wrestling. In 2012, he was name the All-Around Cowboy of the Northwest Region and qualified for the National College Finals Rodeo in 2011 and 2012.
Segerman replaces Matt Hughes, who left Mesalands a few weeks ago to coach rodeo at Missouri State University-West Plains in his hometown.
Hughes had coached the Stampede since 2017.