Helping western athletes and their families build healthier lives.
ReRide Foundation’s work centers on education, preventive care, and access to trusted providers who understand rodeo life. Our mission includes helping athletes stay healthy, navigate injury and personal challenges, and find support when their lives change.
Good care starts with understanding the individual.
Rodeo asks a lot of athletes and their families. Staying healthy takes knowledge, resources, and people you can trust. When an injury interrupts an income or a personal struggle becomes difficult to manage, knowing where to turn can make a difference.
ReRide recognizes how closely physical health, mental health, family, and financial stability are connected. We want athletes to feel comfortable asking for help and to have a practical way to find appropriate support.
We also believe that education and preventive care belong throughout an athlete’s life. Young competitors deserve to learn healthy practices early, and experienced athletes need opportunities to keep learning as their bodies, responsibilities, and goals change.
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Practical knowledge can help athletes make informed decisions about their health. Our educational priorities include healthy habits, injury prevention, coping skills, and recognizing when professional support could help.
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Recovery can affect an athlete’s daily life, livelihood, and family. Our provider network is being developed with those connected needs in mind, including physical therapy, bodywork, training, and guidance for long-term health.
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Honest conversations should lead to meaningful help. We’re seeking qualified mental health and addiction professionals who understand the pressures western athletes face and can help them develop healthier ways to cope.
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An athlete’s needs can change with injury, recovery, family responsibilities, or a decision to stop competing. Our approach includes helping people find guidance as they adjust, explore new opportunities, and regain a sense of direction.
Our approach brings education and care together.
Trust matters when you’re asking someone for help.
Our preferred-provider standards reflect the care we would want for ourselves and our families.
We look for providers who understand rodeo and western athletes, hold the qualifications relevant to their services, and consider how different parts of a person’s life affect their health. Providers are vetted through our board or trusted professional contacts. Therapists must be licensed.
As provider relationships are established, personal referrals will be our starting point for connecting athletes with support. An online directory is planned to make those connections easier to find.
Help western athletes and their families access the care they need.
Your donation supports ReRide’s work to develop a vetted provider network, create practical health education, and establish the referral process that connects athletes with appropriate support.
Our current fundraising is focused on putting these resources in place, including the coordination and operating support needed to deliver them responsibly. As funding and capacity grow, our longer-term goals include financial assistance and educational clinics.
We’ll share progress, available resources, and how contributions are used so supporters can follow the work they help make possible.
We welcome conversations with providers, athletes, businesses, and community members who share our commitment to healthier lives in western sports.
Whether you offer professional services, want to organize a fundraiser, or have an idea for reaching more athletes, we’d like to hear from you.
Your experience and connections can help.
To learn more about ReRide, ask about the provider connections we’re developing, or discuss supporting the mission, contact our team.