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Show T'.TVT T 6A Emery County ; : Progress Tuesday, November 7, 1995 SPORTS air : cikr&9 m X ' ' rrSs&zy 1,', ..?.?Xfcr;k.' ' v'b rx: y - , & k ' ' 'V. V v ll l AWlJSEiS!! rn t i - ' WWWit U"" Aar.1- ... ? ff 7 P4 ': .;: :.a- - v. ,, 1? two years in the Wilderness Professional Rodeo Circuit, Justin Truman of Huntington is making a name for himself in calf roping. Justin has qualified in each of his two years of competi- After tion. Above, he competes at a rodeo in Pleasant Grove. Photo courtesy Fain Photographic Cowboys enter circuit finals By Larry W. Davis Progress editor When the Wilderness Circuit of the Professional Rodeo Association holds its finals this week in Ogden, Emery County will be well represented. Two local cowboys, Justin Truman and Casey Allred, will be competing for a chance at the Dodge National Circuit Finals in Pocatello, Idaho, in March. The two qualified for this week's competition after finishing among the top 12 money winners in their events in the Wilderness Circuit this season. Justin competes in calf roping, and Casey is a bull rider. The Wilderness- Circuit includes cowboys and cowgirls from Utah and other mountain states and is one of 12 circuits in the country. The top two winners from the circuits advance to the Dodge National Circuit Finals. While Casey - they can but not all the time as many members of the Wilderness Circuit do. Casey is a fulltime employee at Skyline Mine in Scofield while Justin is a student at The College of Eastern Utah and an employee at Nielson Construction of Hunevent each in finisher place tington. this week will advance. Although the two aren't fulltime rodeo cowboys, they still Justin is just in his second managed to get in about 30 year as a Wilderness Circuit rodeos each during the season, calf roper which makes his and they've done well. Their qualification for the finals that travels have taken them all over Utah and to rodeos outmuch more impressive. However, he also qualified a year side the state including comrookie. petitions in Denver and Las ago as a his rookie Vegas. Casey took first place Casey also qualified in 1990. was in bulls in rodeos at St. George year, but that Since then he has continued to and Para wan while Justice fincompete as a veteran bull rider. ished in third place in PleasAnother remarkable thing ant Grove and Vernal. In most about the two Emery County of the rodeos, they have done well which has kept them in cowboys advancing to the finals is that each considers him- the top 12 in their events. The Wilderness Circuit Fiself to be a "weekend competitor." That is, they rodeo when nals will be held Thursday, and Justin do not have a shot at the top money-winnspot from their circuit, they each have good chances of advancing based on their performance at the Golden Spike Arena in Ogden this week. The top money winner and the first er Friday and Saturday at the Golden Spike Arena. Casey and Justin will join over 80 other qualifiers in one of the most competitive rodeos of the sea- Bullriding has become a way of life for Cleveland cowboy Casey Allred, but he says his family and job make rodeoing a weekend activity. Photo courtesy Fain Photographic son. They will be looking to win the average of their three scores to advance to Pocatello. In many ways, Casey is lucky to still be in the sport at all. He said he was ready to give it up a couple of years ago when things werent going real well. "I really owe a lot to my wife, Debbie, for her support and encouragement to continue," he said. Also, the Cleveland said that he appreciates the support of all the local folks. "We get a lot of support cowboy from people around here,1 he said. "The whole area seems to get behind us." Justin also has a lot of thanks to hand out, especially to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Kay Truman of Huntington. Justin Truman and Casey Allred Nelson given UHSAA award Emery High track and cross country coach Dean Nelson has received the 3A Coach of the Year Award from the Utah High School Activities Association. The award was presented to coach Nelson by Emery High principal Brent Arnold last week. Coach Nelson has been the head track coach at Emery for 13 years. In that time he has coached four state championship teams, had one second place finish, one third place finish and 16 individual state champions. Among the members of his teams have been four state record holders. He has also coached the team to eight region championships. In addition to coaching track and cross country, coach Nelson was an assistant basketball coach for eight years to present "Hoop Dreams" No stars. No script. But one of the most talked about movies of the year. A story about hope and courage, a story about struggle and dreams, a story about life-- - Hoop Dreams. Breaking all the rules of today's popular hit films, Hoop dinners, filming practice sessions as well as basketball games. The result is a rich and complex portrait of two inner-cit- y boys growing up with the Dream. KTCA, Twin Cities Public Television, St. PaulMinneapo-lis- , Dreams is a documenbecame involved withHoop at a known Dreams in 1989 when the stalittle tary produced media arts center in coopera- tion agreed to the tion with Minnesota public documentary with Kartemquin television. Yet the film. went Educational Films as a PBS on to become a favorite among special. An Academy Award critics and the theatre-goin- g nominee for Best Film Editing public, who decried the Acad- category, Hoop Dreams is a emy Awards last March for monumental editing achieveEmery High coach Dean Nelson, shown above Utah High School Activities Association. The to nominate Hoop ment, condensing more than failing at a cross country meet this fall, has been award came at a program last week. , Dreams in the category of Best 250 hours offilm down to three. awarded the 3 A Coach of the Year Award by the Picture. "It's an example of how public and an assistant football coach holds the school and state name is synonymous with ser-fAiring on KUED Wednesday, television helps get ambitious d record in the eight years. high vice to youth. Dean's life is' Nov. 15, at 7 p.m., Hoop Dreams and risky projects off the Not only has he excelled in hurdles and has the school centered around the youth of is the remarkable true story of ground when no one else will," the coaching ranks, coach record in the javelin. He was ourarea... He is concerned with two African-America- n high says the film's executive proNelson has been an outstand- - also a high school each student as an individual, school boys who dream of play- ducer Catherine Allan. ing athlete himself. He partici- - can in basketball as well as a and he gives each student his ing in the NBA. Filmed over Hoop Dreams was first exhibfive years, the documentary ited at the 1994 Sundance Film pated on two state champion- - Utah full concern." follows 1967-6Festival where it won the Aulives of the In William teams in his nomination, coach was a ship Coach Nelson is a French Gates and Arthur Agee from dience Award for Best Docutwo time champion in the 120- - Nelson is praised for his ser- the summer after they leave mentary. The film then went high hurdles and mile relay, , vice to youth. "Dean Nelsons teacher at Emery High. elementary school through into theatrical release, appeartheir entry into college. They ing on numerous Top Ten soon discover that their dreams Movie of the Year lists, includof glory become obscured amid ing those of Time magazine the intense pressures of aca- and The New York Times. It demics, family life, economics, has won every major critics administered by the Utah Di- Development will include landtional Recreational Trail will, and athletic competition. award for best documentary of vision of Parks and Recreation, scaping, sprinkling system, be extended 1 34 miles so it Dreams modas a Hoop 1994, and was named Best Picbegan provide funding for additional restrooms, picnic shelters, play intersects the Miller Flat road est film of the Year by both The ture the culture examining and motorized equipment, lighting and fenc- where a new trailhead will be Los of "street basketball" Times and by on Angeles trails, and protection and rec- ing. Funds approved were established. Currently, to acSiskel and Robert Ebert Ebert. Chicago's playground courts, reational development of the $19,000. cess the trail from Miller or but the project evolved into an called Hoop Dreams "one of the state's riverways. Twenty-tw- o projects in 13 Cleveland reservoirs, you have epic chronicle over five years. best films about American life counties received a total of to travel across quite a lot of Filmmakers Steve James, I have ever seen." In the Riverway Enhancement Matching Grants $517,900 in matching fiscal private property. This project Frederick Marx and Peter GilFollowing the documentary will provide users better acassistance money in the bert collected over 250 hours of at 1 1:30 p.m. is A Hoop Dreams $500,000 funds were awarded Trail Matching cess, all on public land, and a film, conducting interviews Reunion, a follow-u- p to 11 cities and one county for look at Grants. Among those receivmuch needed restroom and with the boys, their families what William Gates and 12 projects. Orangeville City requested funds to develop a ing funds was Forks of the other trailhead facilities. The and friends, eavesdropping on Arthur Agee are doing today. (Continued on page 7AJ park along Cottonwood Creek. Huntington NRT. This Na amount awarded was $10,000. birthday parties and nightly ur or 120-yar- All-Amer- i-. all-stat- 8, Funds awarded for beautification projects Over $1.2 million in matching funds were approved by the Utah Board of Parks and Recreation for non-motoriz- ed trail, motorized trail and riverway projects, meeting. enhancement at the board's Oct. 17 Matching fiscal assistance comes from state sources. Communities and public agencies awarded the funding must match the grant with at least an equal amount of funding. The fiscal assistance programs, . non-motoriz- ed Non-MotOriz- ed i: l V. |