Bigfork’s Tess Megill earns back-to-back state rodeo titles

A horse lover and barrel racer from an early age, Tess Megill took up the sport of rodeo and has made a quick rise to the top ranks of rodeo competition.

The Bigfork eighth-grader, who is homeschooled through Heritage Academy in Evergreen, just finished winning the junior pole bending event of the Montana High School Rodeo Association, defending the title she won in the same event in 2022...