SUNDAY SPECIAL
Marsh Valley’s Tietsie Fly has done a lot – and dealt with a lot – on the road to rodeo queen

Published at 12:00 pm, May 24, 2026 | Updated at 2:06 pm, May 24, 2026
Kalama Hines, EastIdahoSports.com


Marsh Valley High School multisport student-athlete and District 4 Rodeo Queen Tietsie Fly. | Courtesy Mackenzie Fly

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MCCAMMON — Being a student-athlete is difficult. Maintaining good grades and practicing an athletic craft, by themselves, can be highly taxing. But for Marsh Valley’s Tietsie Fly, it’s just life.

Not only is Tietsie involved in sports, she is a four-sport athlete, playing basketball, volleyball, golf and rodeoing. And within the sport of rodeo, she does seven different events: barrel racing, cow cutting, reining cow horses, light rifle, pole bending, breakaway and queening.

It’s a heavy workload, she admits, but she has no interest in lightening that load — especially not if that means less rodeoing.

“I’ve rodeoed my whole life,” Tietsie told EastIdahoSports.com. “I started riding when I was tiny, and I’ve grown to love the sport.”

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