The 2016 National Little Britches Rodeo Association junior all-around world champion is back for one final chance at winning the title again in her age category. Fourteen-year-old Logan Wilson has been through the whirlwind of competing in seven events at the 2018 NLBRA finals in the junior age group.

While she didn’t do as well as she would have liked in round one, this 10-year veteran in the NLBRA has a plan for round two, which started Thursday evening in Guthrie, Oklahoma.

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“I’m just going to try to be smooth in all of my events and make it back if I can,” said Wilson. “I’m going to try to go a little bit faster in trail to maybe place, and in the breakaway I just hope the draw goes good and I get a good shot, and I hope to draw better in goats also because I have a pretty good chance at making it back in goats if I place in the next round.”

Competing in her seven events—goat tying, breakaway roping, team roping, ribbon roping, barrel racing, pole bending, and trail course—sees Wilson competing in every single performance of the NLBRA finals. Wilson rides three horses across those events as well: Bump, the blue roan that does goat tying, breakaway roping and pole bending; Little Man, her bay that does barrel racing and trail course; and Otis, who is a 20-year-old bay she borrows from a friend to team rope on.

Seven events means seven chances to add points to her all-around standings in the hopes of winning the most coveted title in rodeo. The was a feeling that Wilson was lucky enough to experience two years ago, but Wilson says even that was a surprise.

“I didn’t have a very good short go and I wasn’t expecting anything to come out of it but we just sat around until the end,” remembered Wilson as she recalled the setup for the awards ceremony. “They put me in line with the other people and I noticed I was pretty far back in the line for that and then they called my name out (as the all-around world champion). It was really nice, it was a big shocker and I was very honored to have been able to do that.”

Wilson has already seen some notable all-around success this year. She is a 2018 Mississippi Junior High School Rodeo girls all-around champion and the Mid-South National Little Britches all-around winner.

It takes a lot of hard work to gain the skills to win just one event, but to be an all-around champion, that hard work needs to multiply exponentially. That hard work ethic has been instilled in this young Mississippi cowgirl in her upbringing on her family’s cattle and chicken farm.

“It’s very busy around our house,” said Wilson. “My mom and dad have to get up and feed chickens every morning. I mostly tend to the horses, but if they need something I help them and then I help hay, help with planting, and feed cows.

“Other than that, it’s school, rodeo, and riding horses all the time for me.”