Katy Lucas | Cowboy Channel - On Air Personality - Rodeo Journalist

Katy Lucas is one of the rising voices in Western sports broadcasting and rodeo media, widely recognized for her authentic storytelling, deep rodeo roots, and on-air work with The Cowboy Channel. Raised in Alberta, Canada, Katy grew up immersed in rodeo culture as the daughter of legendary Canadian cowboy Joe Lucas, a multi-time Canadian champion tie-down roper and six-time National Finals Rodeo qualifier.

Before becoming a respected television personality, Lucas competed in junior rodeo, high school rodeo, college competition, and amateur rodeo circuits, participating in events including team roping and breakaway roping. Her passion for storytelling and Western sports journalism began early, writing for the Canadian Pro Rodeo News while still in high school.

Katy later earned national recognition as a former Miss Rodeo Canada, a title that helped launch her career in Western media and public speaking. Through years of dedication to the rodeo industry, she built a reputation for insightful interviews, athlete features, and authentic coverage of Western sports culture.

Today, Lucas serves as an on-air personality, sideline reporter, and broadcaster with The Cowboy Channel, covering many of the sport’s premier events, including major PRCA rodeos and National Finals Rodeo coverage. Her polished delivery, deep knowledge of rodeo, and ability to connect with competitors and audiences alike have made her one of the most recognizable female broadcasters in the Western industry.

Among her recent accolades, Katy Lucas was honored as a Best of Western Media Winner by Western Horseman magazine, recognizing her growing impact in Western broadcasting and storytelling. She was also selected as the emcee and featured voice of the 2026 Art of the Cowgirl event, further cementing her role as a trusted ambassador for Western heritage and rodeo culture.

Whether she’s reporting from the rodeo arena floor, interviewing world champions, or sharing the human stories behind the sport, Katy Lucas continues to champion the Western lifestyle while helping bring rodeo and cowboy culture to a broader audience.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:01

I am Bossey. Hey music lovers. Welcome to Musical Miles Podcast. I'm your host, Byron Duffin, and I'm here with Miss Katie Lucas. How are you, Katie?

SPEAKER_02 0:09

Hey, I'm doing good. I'm glad we get to catch up. I feel like this is a blast from the past.

SPEAKER_01 0:13

It is, it is. We've known each other a long time. In fact, I was just trying to think about it. Um, so it was uh what year was it that I went to work for Steve in Idaho uh in the rope business, and that's how I got to meet your mom and dad, and then you and and your brother Kyle would show up with them down there in Idaho and play play with all the ropes, mess everything up in the store. No, it was good, and then we get to see uh 2004, Shadow Saiyan. No, 2000, yeah, that I was gonna say. So it's been 25 years, and here we are in Arizona. In Arizona, and and we're at the Art of the Cowgirl, which you are the MC. I am, and for those of our followers who don't know who Katie Lucas is, she's a very famous broadcaster. So she is the host of multiple events, genres, whatever in the in the cowboy world. So you work for the Cowboy Channel.

SPEAKER_02 1:08

The Cowboy Channel. Yes, I'm one of the on-air personalities for Cowboy Channel. Uh I host uh multiple shows, Western Sports Roundup, um, several other shows, what you know, whatever I'm needed for, I hop in. And then I also do sideline reporting at a lot of our major professional rodeos uh for the Cowboy Channel on broadcast there.

SPEAKER_01 1:27

Yes, you do. Well, when when I knew you, you were just a little girl. And then you were actually Miss Rodeo Canada.

SPEAKER_00 1:33

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 1:33

And so uh at that time your mom shared with us that you were gonna go into broadcasting and that you went to school to become a broadcaster, correct?

SPEAKER_02 1:41

Yes, I sure did. I wanted to have the structure. Uh I knew I had a love for rodeo. I'm kind of a nerd about rodeo rules and rodeo stats, so I had that side of it, but I wanted to have the proper structure to be able to do the job well. And I'm really not a natural at public speaking. I'm not a natural at, you know, being confident and hopping out there and doing this job. I I mean, you knew me as a little kid. I was probably hiding behind my dad's legs all the time. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 2:08

You were pretty shy.

SPEAKER_02 2:09

I really wanted to do it. It was uh something that I just I was so passionate about. And so to me, having a structure, having step one, step two, step three, that gives gives me the confidence to know that I'm doing my job well. And and now that I'm more used to it, and now that uh I've got the the years of experience behind it, I can let go of that structure a little bit, and that has been a lot of fun for me in the last few years to learn how to do. But that's what gave me the confidence to actually do this job is sure knowing the rules.

SPEAKER_01 2:39

Unlike me who I'm a fly by the seat of my pants kind of guy, and I and of course I can talk to anybody, I don't get very shy unless it's when you put that guitar in my hand. If somebody's in the room, then I get a little shy with that. But but I do uh I do enjoy doing what we do because we get the opportunity to uh act meet new people all the time. Yes, you know, and and we have been uh music focused on our podcast, and and uh and so what we what we want to do now is we've kind of rethought this. Our daughter Callie, and I don't know if you remember Callie, she was a she's how old are you now? Uh 32. Okay, so she's a little older than you, but um she uh when when I when I found myself suddenly and unexpectedly retired, she said, Dad, what are you gonna do? And I said, I don't know. You know, I had some other job offers and some opportunities, and I just didn't want to stay in that in that side of the ag world. And she said, I think you and mom ought to do a podcast. But she had this big broad idea about this podcast, more about travel and incorporate the music. Well, we really wanted to focus on the music because we love music, and uh, but now we're kind of backtracking a little bit because all these things we do are in person, like this. Every interview we've conducted, 220 in the last 19 months. Wow, and um we've posted, I think, 180 some episodes. We we post three a week, so that's a challenge, especially when you're busy. So we're it's like a full-time job or more. Uh just doesn't pay like a full-time job. But um uh we're we're trying to rethink this and and feature a lot of these places we go or destinations and destination events, like the Art of the Cowgirl, and it's such a cool deal.

SPEAKER_02 4:18

Oh, I have loved getting to be a part of it this year. This is my first time, like you said, to Art of the Cowgirl, and there's just a different feeling when you walk into this venue. You can feel that there's something else going on here that is bigger than any one part of this event. You know, it's not just about the the show competitions, it's not just about the ranch rodeo, the breakaway, the team roping, the horse sale. There's a fellowship here. There are um makers conventions, there are classes that you can take. Um, there's really just a feeling of empowerment. And uh, you know, Tammy Pate, I I had the opportunity to meet her briefly uh when she was alive, and and she is such a big influence, and you can still feel her here. You can feel that everybody, no matter what world they come from, when they come together here out of the cowgirl, they want to make Tammy proud, and and that's just created a very different feeling here.

SPEAKER_01 5:15

Well, it's cool because uh she had a vision and they've been able to hold it together after she passed. That's not always the case. When someone leaves this earth, you know, they they leave a legacy, but sometimes it's hard to carry that legacy on, and they've done a phenomenal job here.

SPEAKER_02 5:29

Yeah, safe to say Tammy Pink would be very, very proud. And and her family's still involved with this event, and I think really a big part of the lifeblood of it. And I think that you know, the Yost family, they they purchased this event and they really want to see it thrive, they want it to become bigger and bigger, and and if it does that, it'll just help impact more women out there.

SPEAKER_01 5:49

Well, I and I think they have the facility here to enable it to grow. Um, it it can grow, and now I think there's some some limiting factors on the entries as far as the ranch rodeo goes and the contestant side of things, and obviously the horse sale, you can't just have an unlimited horse sale, right? But but that being said, the bigger it gets, the better quality of of horses that they're gonna have to offer in the sale. Um, I know I watched your little segment yesterday on the on the horse sale, and so it's it's fun to kind of follow along, and so that's what we've tried to do is to get our music followers to follow some of these artists that we have had the opportunity to. I mean, Olivia Harms is such a talented young lady and fits this event so perfectly. Absolutely, and so does her mother, and and all these artists really truly fit that the young families. There's two young families that have performed here. Um, the Morningside band out of East Texas, which were we got the opportunity to sit down with them, and then as well as uh Arizona Wildflowers, who we interviewed last year. But it's just cool to see the involvement. The other thing that that Mishanna loves is the fashion and the shopping. Let's talk about that. Because you've seen a lot of things happen in the fashion side of the Western industry in the last 10 years.

SPEAKER_00 7:05

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SPEAKER_02 7:23

And I feel like there's so many events that just have a certain style. You go to the National Finals rodeo and you push it to the max. You have bright colors, you're going to have feathers and rhinestones and sequins, and that is Vegas to a T. You go to the Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo, and it's all about elegance and leather and furs and high quality. Uh, you're you're looking expensive there at the Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo. Here, it is all about looking cowgirl. I know I pulled out a lot of vintage items here at Cowgirl, out of the cowgirl, to wear. Um, and you might be walking along and be in your vintage pantsuit next to a cow puncher cowgirl that has her ranch, her, her uh pearl snap shirt and her her men's, you know, 14 MWZs on. And I think that's really cool. But everyone's very classy here at the cow girl.

SPEAKER_01 8:14

There's just such a uh a variation of of, like you say, different styles. We we walked in the gate the first day, and there was two I shouldn't say older ladies, but they probably were in their 60s in tutus. I don't know if you caught that, but they they they have made quite quite a shock around. And it and it's but it's fun. It's it's really fun.

SPEAKER_02 8:34

And it's all cowgirl.

SPEAKER_01 8:35

Oh, it's a hundred percent cowgirl.

SPEAKER_02 8:36

I think there's so many different definitions of cowgirl, and that's what we're seeing here. Everyone's coming together, and uh and you see it in in the clothing as well. You can tell where someone's coming from, what they're all about based on how they're dressing here.

SPEAKER_01 8:48

Right, right. Oh, yeah, we we got to meet some people from Pennsylvania the first day. Uh they were here supporting her sister who was in the cult starting uh contest. And so they've got so many things going on here that it's it's really hard to keep track of everything. And the thing we we find ourselves even in Vegas at the NFR, we're we're busy working and we don't get to see everything that happens, but we get to see more behind-the-scenes stuff, which is always fun, right? Whether it's from you know, uh interviewing contestants or or fans, you know, that's because that's the important thing. What we found in the music world was that we think there's really four components to the music, and that's the song, the the artist to sing it, the venue, and the fans. If that if you don't have one of if one of those components is missing, you don't have a the full successful thing. So we we we love what we do and we love being able to tie it together with the lifestyle that we grew up in and that we love. You know, Shanda is a sixth generation Arizona, so it's always fun to come home. Your family's had roots here for a long time, uh since before you were born.

SPEAKER_02 9:54

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 9:54

40 years. I know your parents have had a place in uh Maricopa.

SPEAKER_02 9:58

Yes, yeah. Dad was one of the original Canadians that started Little Canada out there in Maricopa, and so Kyle and I got to grow up being those spoiled Canadian kids that would winter in Arizona and get to be little roping bums all winter long. And I miss that. I said I always say it's a it was a simpler time back then when you had cash in an envelope in your nightstand or under your mattress, and that was your jackpot money. And you know, if you didn't win enough at the jackpots, you just had to wait a little longer and you know, gather up cash at some of the cheaper ones and go to the big ones again. And um, you know, it was uh such a fun time in my life, and I'm so thankful for it too. I got to rope a ton, um, you know, got to just have a a really nice, relaxed winter, be outside in the sun all winter long. And we always joke too, eight o'clock is Arizona midnight because when you're outside all day in the sun, eight o'clock rolls around and you're ready for bed and you'll sleep right till eight the next morning, too.

SPEAKER_01 10:48

There's no doubt about it. We're finding that again here now, the art of the cowgirl. They wear us out. But you know, the cool thing is is that you're you're you you grew up in the rodeo world. Your dad went to the Canadian finals. How many? He told me the other day, I think 24 times. Yeah, I think. 24 times, and six times to the NFR. And he was the the they don't call it the all-around in Canada.

SPEAKER_02 11:08

What do they call the uh it's the the high point champion? High point champion. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 11:12

So essentially he's the all-around champion. But but I knew it had a different title in Canada. But he won that how many times do you remember?

SPEAKER_02 11:18

I believe it was two times, I'm pretty sure. Um and yeah, and that's for working two events in Canada, not necessarily on both sides of the arena. So, and that's in Canada, they the all-around, they call it a true all-around where you have to work both ends of the arena. So uh he uh steer wrestled, team ropes, tied on ropes, so he was the the high point champ.

SPEAKER_01 11:38

Yeah, yeah. Well, like say a very talented cowboy in his own right, and then you've got a younger brother, Kyle, who was uh a contestant this past year at the NFR, who's who's been to the Canadian finals six or seven times. Ten times now. Yes.

SPEAKER_02 11:53

We're getting old on you.

SPEAKER_01 11:54

Yeah, well, you you're you're not kids anymore. I know that. I know that. Well, it's been fun to watch you kids grow up. It's been fun to see you or you on television, and I can tell my kids and friends, I know that girl. I've known her since she was a little girl. But it's been fun to watch you grow, and you've turned into such a talented, beautiful young lady.

SPEAKER_02 12:13

Thank you. I appreciate that. It's it's been such a fun journey. I've enjoyed every minute of it, and you know, I I went to college for broadcasting just with the faith that someday there would be a place for me to do this full time. And you know, many years later that that happened with the Cowboy Channel, and and I'm just uh I still feel like we're on the ground floor, you haven't seen nothing yet. We've got some exciting things coming this year, and I think we're gonna look back 10 years from now too and see a completely different broadcast industry for the sport of rodeo.

SPEAKER_01 12:43

Oh, without a doubt. I mean, I and I've loved watching the the it evolve and change at the NFR during the NFR. You you invite uh uh guest broadcasters to come in and sit down. You had Tancy Williams on, who we've had on our podcast. Yeah, I love Tancy.

SPEAKER_02 12:55

He actually was in our wedding.

SPEAKER_01 12:56

Oh, he was?

SPEAKER_02 12:57

Yeah, my husband and him grew up together. So he was best man at our wedding.

SPEAKER_01 13:01

He's such a great guy. And then we we actually had uh uh your fellow Canadian Corb Lund on the podcast with us. He's a pistol. We just we just enjoy that uh that quirky personality of his and those songs.

SPEAKER_02 13:13

So yeah, and he that is him all the time. That's I mean, that's not an act that he puts on. That is that is it you're getting some insight into the mind of Corblund. It's so cool.

SPEAKER_01 13:23

It was it was very cool to interview him and and uh and have a good visit. But Katie, thank you again so much for joining us. This has been such a pleasure. We uh we look forward to continue to follow you on the Cowboy channel and and uh see where it takes you.

SPEAKER_02 13:38

Yeah, I appreciate it. It's a blast from the past. It's great to catch up with you by the time.

SPEAKER_01 13:42

Hey, thanks, Katie. Hey for Musical Miles Podcast, I'm your host, Byron Delphin here with Katie Lucas from the Art of the Cow girl, Wickhamberg, Arizona. We'll see you all some more down the road.