08/28/2026
Shelby Boisjoli - Professional Breakaway Roper
The Queen
She grew up in a small town outside Calgary, watching her own mother reign as a Calgary Stampede princess. Years later, she won the first breakaway roping ever held at that same rodeo — and called it bigger than her own World Championship.
Shelby Boisjoli-Meged grew up in Langdon, Alberta, the daughter of Garth and Sherry, playing basketball through Chestermere High School alongside her rodeo career. Roping ran deep in the family — her older sister Makayla competes in breakaway roping too, and her younger sister Marissa is a WPRA member as well. In 2019 she finished Reserve National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association Champion in breakaway roping. In 2020 she joined the WPRA and made her first National Finals of Breakaway Roping that same year, closing out the season fourth in the world standings.
Then, in 2023, still in her twenties, she won it all — the WPRA World Championship in breakaway roping. That same year her mare, No Wimpy Turns — Onna — was named the Nutrena/AQHA Horse of the Year for the second time, having also earned the honor back in 2021.
Then in 2024, defending her title at Cheyenne Frontier Days, she posted the fastest time of the entire rodeo at 3.7 seconds and stood emotional on the winner's platform as the reigning World Champion. She finished that season as Reserve World Champion.
Then came July 2025 — what she called the week of a lifetime. Riding both Onna and her other mare, Root Beer, Shelby won the inaugural Calgary Stampede Breakaway Roping and the NFR Open in the same week, taking home $81,125 combined. She said it plainly, putting the moment into perspective — "Calgary is the biggest and most meaningful check I've ever won in ProRodeo. Yes, even more than the world championship, because while a lot of my family got to come watch me win my gold buckle, not all of them did." She's married to Haven Meged, the 2019 PRCA World Champion tie-down roper, the two of them building one of breakaway and tie-down roping's most respected power couples.
Then, entering the final stretch of the 2026 season, she's fighting for her seventh consecutive NFBR qualification — sitting outside the top 15 with weeks left to close the gap, the same relentless competitor who's never shied away from the pressure. She said it herself, about handling the lows that come with any season — "If I go three rodeos and don't do well, I think I'm harder on myself than anybody could ever be on me. I've had to realize that struggling is something everyone goes through — not just me."
A Calgary Stampede princess's daughter who came back to win her own title there. A World Championship earned by 2023, at just 27. A cowgirl still fighting for every inch of her seventh straight trip to the finals.
That is Shelby Boisjoli-Meged. 🤠🪢🏆
