The Centennial State brought to the heat to Fort Worth, as Team Colorado claimed the prestigious State Extravaganza title at the 2025 Cinch RSNC World Finals. The team featured standout sorters Dave Wolfe, Emily Sperle, Meredith Bryner, Logan Wolfe and Sam Bresette, who all hail from the Northern Colorado region.
Broadly, the State Extravaganza creates teams of the top five ranch sorters in each state’s National Points race with each competitor representing one of the five sorting divisions. Then, at the World Finals, each team member indicates who they will sort with from their team. At this point, it’s a clean-slate competition, and the state with the most cattle sorted wins.
On Team Colorado, Dave Wolfe represented the Masters division, Sperle the Amateurs, Bryner the Novice division, Logan Wolfe the Opens and, as a Graduated Rookie, Bresette carried the torch for the Rookie division.
“I’m so excited for this,” said Dave, who founded the RSNC. “Way back in 2007, we started a state points race and wanted to find a way to recognize the top teams from each state at the Finals. That’s how the State Extravaganza was born. And now, we won! How about that?”
Sperle gave a nod to J Heart Equine Services for getting her horse Penelope back in championship shape.
“This was this horse’s first show back after rehab with Jessie [Wolfe] and Baily [Afdahl],” Sperle said. “It’s so awesome. The run felt great, just to get out there and get 10, it was awesome.”
Cinch RSNC Event Director Logan chimed in on the victory, and how it’s been a long time coming.
“We’ve really been chasing this for a long time,” he said. “I’ve been part of the State Extravaganza since 2008, and Oklahoma and Texas always seemed to beat us. It was such a sweet win. They’re great teams—they know how to play—so it was really exciting to win this.”
Bresette provided a simple summation of the win.
“It really means a lot, and we had a lot of fun doing it,” he posited.
Following the event, Logan gave a more in-depth look at the pieces that came together for Team Colorado to clinch the victory against 11other states, many with more than one team since each state is allowed an A, B and C team.
“I was riding Emily Sperle’s new horse. ‘Frankie’ is a 9-year-old daughter of Metallic Cat out of a daughter of One Time Pepto. What made this really cool was that Emily was not only on our team but also was on the final team with me to seal the win.”
The contributions by the entire team were necessary to overcome the efforts from Oklahoma, Australia, Florida, New Mexico/Kansas, Texas, Georgia, Missouri, South Dakota, Illinois and Utah/Idaho, and each sorter delivered.
“The whole team really carried their weight, with Sam and Merideth putting down two great times to put us in contention in the first and final rounds. And my dad (Dave) and Emily were the consistent ones who gave us safe and solid times to get us to the winners circle.”
Against steep competition and a field of incredible sorters and their mounts, Colorado summited the mountaintop of victory and came home with the State Extravaganza win and championship saddles to prove it.
This article appears in the Summer 2025 issue of The Ranch Sorter, featuring World Champion stories, event recaps, regional results, and more.
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