Remembering Brooke Ann Coats

Brooke Ann Coats, who died Feb. 18 after a bull-riding accident at a Greater Brandon rodeo, is remembered today, July 7, on the day she would have turned 17.

This gallery of pictures is in tribute to Coats. They were taken at the Benefit Bull Ride for Brooke Ann Coats, held March 26 at the Crosstown Rodeo Arena.

“That the 16-year-old lived an active life, touched many lives and died from a sport she was absolutely crazy about is pretty obvious from the scores of people interviewed over the past few days at the makeshift memorial that stands in tribute to her memory outside the bullring on U.S. 301, just north of the Crosstown Expressway,” reads a .

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