Deciding what to do for my senior project was a challenge for sure. I wanted to do something that related to me and my interests so I would actually enjoy doing the project. I decided to do my project on training my horse to barrel race because I've been barrel racing for about two years now and I absolutely love it. Now when I say I've been barrel racing I mean I've been taking lessons on my coaches barrel horses which are already trained. I took lessons on her horses for about a year. I then purchased my own barrel horse who was just getting started on the pattern. When I first got my horse he was 4 years old and he's now 5. For the past year I've been training him with help from my coach who is also my mentor. I have also sent my horse to a professional trainer for some help along the way. He's of course still not finished being trained. To really train a barrel horse it takes a couple years if not more to really get consistent. So for my project I thought it would be fun to do it on finishing out my barrel horse. My hope is to go to a University that has a rodeo team and to compete in rodeo with him at a college level. I'm super excited to see how he really turns out.