Follow
Your Dreams
From
risk-taking rookie-dom to those rockem-sockem NFR showdowns,
Kelly Kaminski has taken herself and her sport on a
wild ride.
By
Kendra Santos
Not
many moons ago, Kelley Kaminski was loving life as a popular seventh-grade
teacher at Bellville (Texas)
Junior High. The young wife and mother appreciated her
students, her career choice, her life.
Kaminski was one of those teachers who
posted inspirational messages around her classroom and
encouraged her students
to shoot for the stars and follow their dreams. Then,
about nine years into that terrific teaching job, her
students turned the table on that line of thinking.
“
I was telling them they needed to have some sort of
passion in their lives, and they asked me, ‘What
about you?’ ” Kaminski recalls with
a glowing grin. “I
had a safe, secure job, with benefits and insurance,
but they knew how much I loved my horses, barrel racing,
and rodeo.”
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The clock flashes precious seconds by as Kaminski
makes one of her NFR-winning runs in Las Vegas.
She
and Rocky rallied, and once again reigned supreme
at round 10’s end.
Tears again streaked her cheeks.
“
This has been kind of nerve-racking, because everyone
talks about me defending my title everywhere I
go,” she said. “I’m not really
into all that.
"I
just want to compete while I can. This is just
as sweet as the first one."
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