Notre Dame's Rodeo Club, founded in 1999 by the Driscoll brothers
-- Mike '99 and Neal '02 of Butte, Montana -- along with two other
students from Montana, reached its first goal of becoming an official
club sports team in 2000-01.
The club has yet to reach its second goal, which is to compete
as a team in a collegiate rodeo. But its membership has grown
to an anticipated 15-20 active members this year, says President
Dylan Reed, a senior from eastern Kentucky who grew up on a quarter-horse
farm.
In the past year, the club, renamed the Notre Dame Rodeo Team,
has focused on teaching basic horsemanship and safety because
most members have little experience with horses, Reed says. They've
also spent time practicing roping and other rodeo skills at a
farm near campus. Last year Reed stabled one of his horses at
a horse farm nearby for the club to work with.
