{"id":565,"date":"2024-04-05T14:16:15","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T19:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.everycowgirlsdream.com\/blog\/?p=565"},"modified":"2025-11-18T09:00:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T15:00:27","slug":"life-lessons-from-a-rodeo-cowgirl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everycowgirlsdream.com\/blog\/books-published-by-every-cowgirls-dream\/life-lessons-from-a-rodeo-cowgirl\/admin\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Lessons from a Rodeo Cowgirl"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"408\" height=\"517\" src=\"https:\/\/www.everycowgirlsdream.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/melissa_phillips.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-566\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.7891682785299806;width:632px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everycowgirlsdream.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/melissa_phillips.jpg 408w, https:\/\/www.everycowgirlsdream.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/melissa_phillips-237x300.jpg 237w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 408px) 85vw, 408px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>1994 World Champion Bull Rider, Melissa Phillips took life by the horns and rode her way to the top. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her titles include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1985 Cowboys Regional Rodeo Association Best Dressed Cowgirl of the Finals.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1992 Reserve World Champion<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1992 Rough Stock Rookie of the year<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1993 Women\u2019s Pro Bull Riding Champion<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1994 Challenge of Champions\u2014Invitational only<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1994 Reserve World Champion Bull Rider<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1995 National Cowgirl Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Nominee<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1995 National Cowgirl Hall of Fame Rough Stock Champion<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1996 Producer of 5 Bud Light Cowgirl Classics held at the&nbsp;Allen Ranch&nbsp; Bixby, Oklahoma dedicated to Domestic Violence Intervention Service<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1996 Bud Light Cowgirl Classic Bull Riding Champion<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1997 1st Woman Bull Rider on Super Bull Tour<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1998 1st Woman Bull Rider World\u2019s Toughest Tour<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2006 1st Woman Bull Rider Longhorn Rodeo Tour<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&nbsp;Rough Stock High Mark Ride of 3 Finals<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"341\" src=\"https:\/\/www.everycowgirlsdream.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-1024x341.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everycowgirlsdream.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-1024x341.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.everycowgirlsdream.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-300x100.png 300w, https:\/\/www.everycowgirlsdream.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-768x256.png 768w, https:\/\/www.everycowgirlsdream.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image.png 1146w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Read her life story &#8211; available at Amazon books. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Life-Lessons-Rodeo-Cowgirl-Taking\/dp\/1523664622\/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&amp;keywords=books+by+cindy+k+roberts&amp;qid=1609776571&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-3\">Life Lessons from A Rodeo Cowgirl: Taking Life by The Horns: Roberts, Cindy K, Phillips, Melissa Geller: 9781523664627: Amazon.com: Books<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1994 World Champion Bull Rider, Melissa Phillips took life by the horns and rode her way to the top. Her titles include: Read her life story &#8211; available at Amazon books. Life Lessons from A Rodeo Cowgirl: Taking Life by The Horns: Roberts, Cindy K, Phillips, Melissa Geller: 9781523664627: Amazon.com: Books<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[6,65,5,64],"class_list":["post-565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-published-by-every-cowgirls-dream","tag-cindy-k-roberts","tag-mellissa-phillips","tag-rodeo","tag-woman-bullrider"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everycowgirlsdream.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everycowgirlsdream.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everycowgirlsdream.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everycowgirlsdream.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everycowgirlsdream.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.everycowgirlsdream.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573,"href":"https:\/\/www.everycowgirlsdream.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions\/573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everycowgirlsdream.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everycowgirlsdream.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everycowgirlsdream.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}