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Tough Enough: Phelps works to prove herself as a bull rider

Once Jenae Phelps has a dream in her head, she doesn’t quit. At 19, she decided that she wanted to be a bull rider. She didn’t quit even though most cowgirls that she had seen at Yankton Riverboat Days, the Sioux Empire Fair and the Korkow Rodeo were

Kicking up dust: Professional bull riding comes to Sioux Falls

Eight seconds. That’s all. That’s how long a bull rider, with one hand tightly clenched around a rope and the other stretched towards the sky, needs to stay on the animal. But for the rider, those eight seconds are wild. At any moment, the muscular beast weighing 1,