BY BETHANY KILPATRICK Editor-in-Chief As the stands fill and the cowboys stretch, everyone in the arena can hear the movement and rustle of the stock, the stock that is ready to do their job and do it well, the stock that is ready...ready to buck.

It takes a special kind of athlete to ride stock full of such explosion; that athlete is none other than the bareback riders.

Tarleton State University is part of the Lone Star Region of the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association (NIRA) and has shown up and shown out at every college rodeo so far this season.