Pressing on after a bad landing

Koben Puckett, of Canyon was raised on a ranch in New Mexico.

“By the time I got out of grade school, I was one hundred percent pursuing rodeo; junior rodeo, high school rodeos, all kinds of rodeos.”

He became a bull rider.

“That’s what I did all through high school and eventually, by the time I was 16 I was competing against adults in amateur events and I learned to make a living riding bulls.” He w…