Charell Schillo has loved horses as long as she can remember. Charell’s earliest childhood memories are fondly recalled by her and her sister Karen spending many hours of the day riding their horses across the Northern Prairies on their parents' farm and ranch in western North Dakota. She and her husband Daryl live on a small (by western ND standards) ranch in northwestern North Dakota.

Charell began her rodeo career at age 10; she competed on horses that she had trained herself and that fact remains the same to this day. At age 16 Charell felt the “need for speed” and was seriously competing and winning. She used her income from training horses and rodeo to pay for her education, graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Secondary Education and then a Master of Social Work. This educational background has been helpful in teaching horsemanship and barrel racing to young people starting out in the sport of barrel racing. Charell facilitates barrel racing clinics every year, bringing in top names, as well as teaching herself.

Charell is a founding member of the Williston High School Rodeo Club and continues, with her husband Daryl, to actively volunteer time to the club. Her daughters Kari and Sara both enjoyed successful High School Rodeo careers on home trained barrel horses.

Barrel horses trained by Charell include the 1997 Montana High School Rodeo Barrel Racing State Champion ridden by Leandra Viara, Lambert, Mt; the 1997-96 North Dakota State Finals Champion barrel horse, qualifying for the short go at the NHSRA ridden by LeeAnn Hovde, as well as money winning horses in amateur and WPRA rodeos.

Charell’s philosophy for a winning barrel horse are the 3 S’s:

Soundness
Sensibility
Speed

Charell is now concentrating on raising barrel prospects and
will be competing in futurities with these homebred prospects.

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