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UW creates Dylan Grant Double Tough Memorial Scholarship and begins funding
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LARAMIE, Wyo. – After the passing of University of Wyoming alumnus Dylan Grant back on April 3, 2025, UW has created the Dylan Grant Double Tough Memorial Scholarship. It is in the process of being crowdfunded and will be awarded to a Wyoming Rodeo student-athlete.
Grant was competing in a bull riding accident in Wharton, Texas at the Wharton County Youth Fair Xtreme Bulls event. He was rushed to a hospital in Houston where he passed.
The scholarship itself is created to memorialize Grant as a competitor and person.
“The reason we created the Dylan Grant Double Tough Memorial Scholarship is to know that Dylan left a legacy on all that he touched here at the University of Wyoming,” said Kade Russow, UW’s Cowboy Joe Club Director of Development in Donor Relations. “Whether that be in his academic program, whether that be on the athletic side of things with the rodeo team, we want to make sure that Dylan is always a part of this university.”
Those that knew him, praised him as a person and his commitment to rodeo and academics.
Wyoming Rodeo coach Seth Glause began at UW after Grant had graduated, but in the tight cowboy community, as the coach of Laramie County Community College he got to know Grant. As a bull rider himself, Glause was drawn to the event and watched Grant rise through the region.
“Watching Dylan compete, every time he nodded his head, he tried as hard as he could, and I think that was part of what made Dylan such a great competitor and a great person,” Glause said.
Grant would win bull riding in the 2021 Mountain States Circuit Finals Rodeo for the UW team.
However, even outside of the arena, Grant put in the extra effort for his degree. Prior to the Cowboy Joe Club, Russow spent time as the Director of Rodeo Operations for the team where he helped manage academics for the student-athletes and got to know Grant well.
“[Grant] was the ideal student athlete in the sense that he was dedicated to both his job inside the arena for rodeo and being a student athlete and winning championships as a bull rider, but also he was so dedicated towards obtaining his degree here at UW,” Russow said.
He would receive his degree in 2023 from the College of Health Sciences in physical education teacher education. He hoped to eventually be a youth physical education teacher in Wyoming.
Russow also reminisced about several times Grant arrived to rough stock practices coming straight from student teaching. Being dedicated to both teaching and riding, he would be wearing his full professional attire to the arena.
As an individual, Grant lived by the phrase “Double Tough” that he was described by his family by. Russow and Glause believe that Grant epitomized the concept.
“Whatever happens, you stand up, dust yourself off and you go back to work,” Russow explained.
Glause also explained, the UW rodeo team has adopted the phrase as their own, even creating and wearing wristbands that read, “DOUBLE TOUGH” on one side and, “DYLAN GRANT ‘Long Live COWBOYS'” on the other.
With the creation of the scholarship, the plan is for it to become an endowed scholarship that goes on into perpetuity. The purpose, not only to help fund rodeo student-athletes education, but to memorialize Grant.
“His story is bigger than just a really tragic event that happened in Houston,” Russow said. “I think that his story carries on to say, this is how Dylan lived his life, and that truly is his epitaph. Truly is just how he was as a person, it’s truly a guide for anyone”
The crowdfunding, as of this article, is at $19,100 out of the $30,000 goal it has set, with donations coming from all over the United States and even Canada. If you would like to see an updated amount raised or donate yourself, you can visit the link here for the scholarship page.
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