Reinert selected to collegiate all-star rodeo

FORT WORTH, Texas – The 2025-26 Great Plains Region Champion and No. 2 barrel racer in the nation, Jayda Reinert, will represent Black Hills State University as a part of the North Team in the inaugural Collegiate All-Star Rodeo as announced by Learfield on Friday, June 5. The first of its kind college rodeo event will bring the best of the best to Colorado State University’s Canvas Stadium on July 10 as the kickoff event of the PBR Bulls & Beats Weekend in Fort Collins, Colorado. 

Reinert ran away with the 2025-26 barrel racing title in the Great Plains Region, accumulating a total of 1,145 points with seven titles in ten appearances this season, 632 points ahead of second in the region. The regional champion ranks No. 2 in the nation in the event and is one of just three individuals nationally to surpass 1,000 points on the year in barrel racing. She earned top barrel racer honors at the Falcon Frontier Days Rodeo (32.11), Mid-Plains Community College Stampede Rodeo #1 (18.05 – 1 Go), Blue Hawk Stampede (35.07), Mystic Stampede (34.93), Triton Stampede (28.89), Will Lantis Yellow Jacket Stampede (27.91), and the Cornhusker College Rodeo (29.69). The sophomore will also be making her first career appearance at the CNFR next week, with the momentum of back-to-back titles at the Will Lantis Yellow Jacket Stampede and the Cornhusker College Rodeo to end the regular season. 

The Collegiate All-Star Rodeo will showcase two teams of 30 rodeo athletes each exclusively representing the 19 Learfield College Rodeo partner programs from North and South regions, bringing together the best of the best from collegiate rodeo competition. Teams are selected and coached by legendary rodeo figures Joe Beaver and Sid Steiner (North) as well as Trevor Brazile and Dale Brisby (South). 

Each of the 60 competitors participating in the Collegiate All-Star Rodeo will appear in custom Collegiate All-Star Rodeo jerseys featuring their school logos and receive prize money for competing with an escalator awarded to members of the winning team. Total prize money for the event will reach $180,000 – one of the largest single-event payouts in collegiate rodeo history. 

The Collegiate All-Star Rodeo will unleash a thrilling team-based competition featuring one-on-one matchups across nine rodeo disciplines with timed events being competed head-to-head under the revolutionary Rock N Rodeo drag-racing style format. Each of the nine disciplines will feature three head-to-head matchups worth one point apiece for a total of 27 points available. The team earning the majority of points available will be crowned champion with its all-stars earning the escalated prize money. 

EVENT FORMATS

• Timed Events (barrel racing, breakaway roping, team roping, tie-down roping, steer wrestling, goat tying) will feature head-to-head matchups between two opponents competing simultaneously
  • The faster run in each head-to-head matchup will win a point, with three total points per discipline  
• Roughstock Events (barebacking riding, saddle bronc riding, bull riding) – One-on-one matchups between two opponents competed back-to-back
  • The higher score in each matchup will win a point, with three total points per discipline  
• Tie-Breakers – If there is a tie or both riders in a matchup don’t get a time/score, the point rolls to the next matchup 

The Collegiate All-Star Rodeo is just the start as Bulls & Beats also kicks off the league’s fifth season of PBR Teams league over the weekend, with each day culminating in concerts headlined by country music stars Bailey Zimmerman and Miranda Lambert. During the two-day, neutral-site PBR Teams event, the world’s best bull riders compete as part of 10 teams representing cities across the country in head-to-head, five-on-five matchups. 

–BHSU