The Freedom First Podcast

#37 - Amberley Snyder | Tragedy to Triumph

August 05, 2022 Blain Smothermon & Eric Hearn

Tragedy to triumph! Episode 37 w/ Champion Barrel Racer @amberleysnyder


Amberley Snyder is a championship barrel racer. She also competed in pole bending and breakaway roping. In 2010, Snyder suffered a car crash that paralyzed her from the waist down. She adapted to the injury and kept competing. Amberley’s father, Cory Snyder was a Major League Baseball player with the Los Angeles Dodgers, Indians, Giants, Toronto Blue Jays and Chicago White Sox. In 2019, Netflix released the film Walk Ride Rodeo, a biopic based on her life that has reached over 350 million wordwide. Amberley returned to the screen in 2020, this time inspiring characters in the Paramount Network show Yellowstone, Season 3 episode 10 “The World is Purple”.

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