Who is mesa pate engaged to

She is an advocate for animal welfare and is involved with working to create a healthier environment for livestock and to promote a good image for the livestock industry. During her high school rodeo career, Mesa's idle interest in roughstock grew into a full blown obsession. It was then she dove head first into the bucking bull industry. Within a year, she had success when she by chance acquired the bull Highway Highway 12 helped launch her into the PBR's spotlight.

Since then, her career and reputation have grown and she continues to try and build her inventory of bulls. Her main priority is to never compromise the values her family stands for and to always put her animal's well-being above anything else.

One of her sisters is a metalworker; the other trains roping horses. Growing up on a ranch, she was on horseback long before she could walk. When her father started traveling to teach horse clinics, the family went along. Mesa and her brother were homeschooled while they spent nine months of the year on the road.

Our mom taught us and put the curriculum together herself. We did our schoolwork between towns in the truck, and we got a lot of real-world experience as well, like going to spend a day with a vet. It was during that time that she got seriously interested in the bucking bull industry.

On a trip to Texas to look at bulls, Mesa met a rodeo coach who offered her a partial scholarship to compete at Panola College in East Texas; she then earned a partial scholarship for writing as well.

At 17, she moved to Texas, taking some livestock, including Highway 12, along with her. College was an adjustment, especially for someone so young who had been homeschooled, and even more so for an entrepreneur with a career outside school. When she thought he was sound enough, she took him to a local event. Having done well there, she then sent a video to the head of the PBR, garnering an invitation for his second showing: an official PBR event in Pueblo, Colorado, which launched them on the path to cross-country travel and the PBR Finals.

Highway 12, it seems, was born to buck; it was Mesa who helped him find his style. Ten years on and living in Oklahoma in the heart of bucking bull territory, Mesa still has a hand in that world and is particularly interested in the reproductive side of the industry, but she considers herself first and foremost a trainer.

She also exhibited a can-do attitude that was inborn; limitations simply never occurred to her. He became part of the Purina and Priefert teams and Mesa and her brother Rial spent their childhood homeschooling from the backseat of a pickup.

Mesa grew up watching the PBR with her family and during high school decided that it was something she wanted to be a part of as well. While attending Panola College in Carthage, Texas on a rodeo and writing scholarship, Mesa spent a lot of time with mentor and stock contractor, Terry Williams.

Since then, she has had the opportunity to haul quite a few bulls to the PBR, something she feels very blessed to have been able to do.

She is also is able to concentrate on her horse program and loves the fact that everything they do with the bulls is done horseback. Mesa has a mare she is planning on showing in the reined cow horse this year, along with three young prospects that she is very excited about. You can follow Mesa here on Facebook , Instagram and Twitter! What makes home home is …. Home will always be in Montana where my family and mountains are, but for someone like me who tends to move around a lot, home is also where my animals and people close to my heart are.

If I could achieve anything in the world it would be …to be a great hand. I would like to be known as someone who makes really great horses and bulls. My goal is to make really versatile, all around horses. The one piece of advice I would give to girls who are interested in the cowboy world is First of all, everyone was a beginner at some point.

Don't worry about screwing up if you are trying hard! The right people will see the effort. Second, be proud of your accomplishments, but don't give yourself too much credit just because you are a woman. Gender has nothing to do with working hard and doing a good job. And there's always someone out there better than you man or woman , don't let envy or jealousy keep you from learning how they got there!

My most prized possession is …my bay horse, Dakota.