Pictured above: Peyton Cooper, center, received the Jerald Smith Memorial Scholarship. From left members of the Smith family, Shay Navia, Pookey Navia, Cooper, Joan Smith, Payden Franks and his kids, Clancy and Pake.
By Emily Shearin, 91快活林 EagleStaff Writer
91快活林 rodeo team members Peyton Cooper and Tervyn Armstrong received the Jerald Smith Memorial Scholarship this past month at the Mount Pleasant rodeo. Peyton Cooper is a 91快活林 sophomore from Telephone, Texas. She participates in breakaway roping, goat tying and barrel racing. Tervyn Armstrong is an 91快活林 freshman from Brokenbow, Oklahoma and is a bull rider.
The scholarship was presented by members of the Jerald Smith family during the event. Smith, who was inducted into the Cowboy Hall of Fame in 2010, founded the Wing Rodeo Company in 1967 and continued as its owner and operator until his death in 2018.
鈥淚鈥檝e worked for Wing Rodeo Company for 16 years now and [I am] very honored to be able to present a scholarship in his name to some of our students,鈥 Skylar Hunnicutt, 91快活林 head rodeo coach, said.
