We continue our look at the Women of the PBR, ladies who play a variety of important roles in and around the PBR.

Today, we sit down with Angie Lockwood, mother of Jess Lockwood, and discuss raising a bull rider, rodeoing, and more.

PBR.com: Hi Angie, glad to have you with us! To start us off, can you tell us where you are from?

Angie Lockwood: I am from Volborg, Montana, 58 miles south of Miles City heading toward Wyoming.

PBR.com: Did you grow up there?

AL: I’ve been there since a little while before I was married. I am a Circle native. Born and raised in Circle, Montana, and did all my sports there. I then went on to college at Glendive and Billings.

PBR.com: So how did you and your husband Ed meet?

AL: Through the college rodeos. I don’t remember him in the high school rodeos, I wasn’t looking for him then. But we met in college and I knew of him. And it was a couple years after college, a couple years into my first teaching job, is when we finally got together. We were at the same pro rodeos every summer and he caught my eye.

PBR.com: Tell us about your rodeo background.

AL: Ed and I both rodeoed for 40 years. We rodeoed and did what we wanted for the first 37 to 40 years of our lives and then decided it was probably family time. So we rodeoed nonstop unless I was teaching. I taught for seven years, teaching physical education. I quit teaching in 1993 and went rodeing and we decided to get married in 1996.

PBR.com: How old was Jess when you first realized that he wanted to be a bull rider?

AL: As soon as he was born, he was at rodeos with us. And as soon as he understood television he would sit with his dad every weekend and watch PBR bull riding or a rodeo, whatever might be on. So it started as a baby. So I could get something done, that’s what he did in the evenings.  And then as he progressed, if there was a commercial or intermission break, that’s when he would be bucking around. Then pretty soon there would be Ed on the floor bucking with him, so it’s been a transition since he was an infant.

PBR.com: So what is it like, as his mom, watching Jess get ready for an event?

AL: It’s exciting because I know he is living out a dream that so many get to dream about. So many people want to be a bull rider, he wanted to be, and he is a bull rider.

PBR.com: Do you remember the first time he rode a bull?

AL: Oh yes, we did kid rodeos as soon as they could start riding steers. So it started there. And that’s how we knew it was very good progress and that he probably was going to be a bull rider. So there was a transition, we went to the kids rodeos that started with steer riding. We had always told our boys that if we thought an animal was not correct for them and we did not trust the animal, they would not get on that animal, and they would not question their dad if he made that choice. We made the good steps, started with steers. Jess did not get to do the Junior High Rodeo until he was an eighth grader. He was very little and we just figured he did not need to be on bulls until then. And I think that is very important in this day and age, that kids don’t skip a step. And we knew as a little guy, he was not ready for the bulls. And if it was to be something of a lifetime thing for him, no reason to take a chance as a sixth, seventh, or eighth grader getting on a bull where he more than likely would get hurt. And as a mom, you worry, but I was so excited to see the success. These kids, it’s exciting to see them accomplish what they set their minds to. So I have to be excited. When we are getting ready to go somewhere, I am thinking that it is going to be a positive thing. Can’t leave home thinking otherwise.

PBR.com: If Jess wasn’t bull riding, would could you imagine him doing?

AL: Probably what he does on the side right now, his ranching. Jess is many things. He wrestled, and he played all the sports as a kid: football, basketball, and the rodeo. So I would think someday, sometime if he quit bull riding, he is a good speaker/commentator, that might be another step if he doesn’t want to get completely out of the bull riding.

PBR.com: What was the first PBR event you attended?

AL: We came up to the Billings one a couple of times, because of friends that happened to know backstage people. And J.B. (Mauney) was kind of a newcomer right then, and Jess and J.B. have a picture together that is priceless. I think we might have come up to an event before, but that was a special one. The first one with Jess was right here in Billings and he happened to win it.

PBR.com: What would you say you do for fun?

AL: Something with family, whether it is something with my big extended family. I love my family and the holidays, and when we can group up. I cherish the family, and I think the boys have grown up in the big family. It’s kind of sad that I only have two because I come from a large family and it’s like the more the merrier, both of our families are. So I would have to say a get together with one or many family members.

PBR.com: How would you describe your style?

AL: I’m pretty much jeans at home, work clothes. My kids grew up knowing there are “going to town” clothes and your work clothes. When you come home from school you get in your work clothes or at-home clothes. So when I go to town I like to dress up. I’ll put on a nice pair of jeans and try to do something with color, but I am a big on browns and blacks for the color for my shirt or vest. I like vests and I like coats. And usually a statement piece necklace of some sort. And I’m into probably a little bigger, chunkier types of jewelry or something unique. I love stones. And I wear bolos. I like turquoise and I like corals. I like bigger stones, like a lapis or something.

PBR.com: What do you see trending in the fashion industry that you like?

AL: I love the feathers, I love turquoise, and the rose golds. I wear a lot of gold. I love copper. So on an earring, it is usually a brown or something copper colored. Or even my Montana Silversmiths with a little of the different color in it.

PBR.com: You kind of mentioned this with the work clothes/”going to town” clothes, but how does your style differ between “going to town” clothes and an event?

AL: That is usually when your dress clothes come out. But I am still going to be me. I would probably never be in a short skirt, or even long skirt. It’s the new fad, even with the tall boots. But my boys would never let me walk out of the house with my cowboy boots with the cowboy jeans tucked in. That would never happen, they would disown me. Otherwise, I usually have some type of a vest or a jacket on to kind of finish off.

PBR.com: Is there anyone out there right now that you look to for their style?

AL: Well, about the only people I am around right now are at the events, and of course I might look to what someone might be wearing on the news. And I look at the PBR commentators or the NFR commentators, the newscasters or the daytime shows. I may not be picking up on it, but I am looking at it anyway.

You can check out Angie’s collection with Montana Silversmiths here. Be sure to catch next week’s Montana Silversmiths’ Women of the PBR as we talk with another of the Women of the PBR.