About LoriDee

LoriDee is the daughter of Larry and Cindy Meyers. founders of Rodeo Attitude. She is a graduate from Collins Maxwell High School and from the Iowa College of Natural Health in Ankeny, Iowa, where she studied massage therapy .  

She has big brown eyes and light brown hair that turns almost blonde in the summer.  She loves her cowboy boots and blue jeans, but gets teased a lot for her obsession with "flip flops" as her mom calls them.

One of her top priorities in high school was serving on the Executive Board of the Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD).  LoriDee was a member of this organization for four years and had represented her school at district and state meetings each year.  "In high school the pressures of being a teen are so great that I believe that SADD is one of the most important organizations in our schools today.  Each year high schools across America celebrate "Red Ribbon Week" during which we visited the elementary grades and talk to the younger kids and did lots of promotions to make the older kids think.  I am very proud that Rodeo Attitude encourages its members to visit schools and talk to kids.”   

LoriDee, believes school spirit is an important part of high school and was a cheerleader from 7th grade to her senior year.  During her years of being a Varsity football and basketball cheerleader she was asked once what she thought about small schools and their spirit.  She replied "We are a very small town and we don't always win but the teams do their best.  I have learned from being around the cowboys how important it is to always do your best.  I respect the kids in my school that take the time to practice and do all the things to be on the team so I do my best to support them.  Our school has such good spirit and it shows at every sporting event."  LoriDee was on annual staff for three 1/2 years.  "Working on the annual was fun because we got to record all the memories and we created something that our classmates will have for years to come.  It will be really nice to go to my 10th class reunion and see everyone looking at our class annual and know I played a part in it.  Of course getting to walk around the school taking pictures of everyone without getting in trouble had its advantages!"   LoriDee was a member of the high school chorus for four year.  "Chorus was a lot of work but our school really supported the choir and we went on trips, did a play and had several concerts each year.  My senior year I sang with the great Simon Estes.  I guess that will be something to tell my kids someday."

  As a member of the Rodeo Attitude staff, LoriDee's main responsibility has been to update several athletes websites including bull riders, Corey Montana Davis, Dustin Elliott, Jody Newberry, Willy Ropp, J. B. Mauney, and Jason Cahill.  Needless to say, she would rather be heading for a bull riding than just about anything else.  "Working with these bull riders has been a very rewarding experience.   The guys always make me feel so welcome.   At one event a bunch of the riders went bowling and I tagged along.  They made a lot of fun of my being embarrassed to bowl and I finally gave in and played a game.  They all treated me like I was their little sister.  When I got back to school a couple of my classmates who ride bulls could not believe I went bowling with Dustin Elliott.  I guess that will be another story to tell my kids."   At events she often helps with autograph sessions as well as gathering information for the website.  LoriDee has also helped at several Cowboy Church Services.  She spent almost a week in Ardmore, Oklahoma working at a big event that featured the Great American Wild West Show.  Each morning started with prayer breakfast at 6:30 AM and she never left the arena before 11 PM.

Cody Custer was the special guest at this event in Ardmore and he took time to give LoriDee a quick bull riding lesson on a mechanical bull.  She wasn't too bad of a student, she won the mechanical bull riding contest at her senior prom! 

Another highlight for her was attending, as a guest, one of Lyle Sankey's bull riding schools in Centerville , Iowa .  Meeting Lyle Sankey was not only exciting but as LoriDee put it, "Lots of information in a very short time!"  LoriDee will use what she learned from Lyle to become a better reporter.  "I've been working at bull ridings since I was nine, but after spending the day with Lyle I understand the techniques and what is really going on a lot better."

LoriDee now serves as the president of the Rodeo Attitude Program.  Don't let her age fool you.  She has over a decade of experience behind the scenes of rodeo as well as in the Rodeo Attitude office.  You can watch for her at events, as an on air cogitator for revaMedia, or just giving a cowboy a first class massage.  She is a young lady with a lot of talent!

*LoriDee's pictures were taken by her big sis, Carolyn Laffey,
 

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