2011 Year in Pictures Samara Lucero, right, age 13, shares a laugh with fellow gymnast Lilly Joslin, age 11, as they partake in a “bridge war” during practice on Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011, at the Wyoming School of Gymnastics. The activity involves gymnasts walking around in a bridge stretch position trying to knock fellow competitors out until one gymnast is left. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) Cheyenne South’s Za Kinsolving swims in a 100 yard freestyle heat during a meet with Rawlins on Thursday, Jan. 20, 2011, at South High School. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) A tennis racket bars the door leading to a court as the University of Wyoming takes on Mesa State on Friday, Jan. 21, 2011, at the Frontier Park Tennis Complex in Cheyenne. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) Cheyenne East’s Lexi Hawkins, second from right, looses the handle on a rebound in front of Central’s Mo Chavez (5) and Christie Schiel (22) and East’s Meghan Sipe (23) during the East-Central rivalry game on Saturday, Jan. 22, 2011, at Storey Gym. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) Central freshman wrestler Bryce Meredith poses for a portrait on Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2011, in the Central High School wrestling room. Meredith is the Tribune-Eagle prep athlete of the week. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) Avery Bott, age 9, reacts as a hair dresser cuts a large lock of her hair off during a student assembly on Friday, Jan. 28, 2011, at Sunrise Elementary. Three students from the school donated their hair to the charity in honor of second grade teacher Heather Blakely-Voyles who has taken a leave of absence from teaching as she battles cancer. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) A NCAA official gives a high five to a youngster serving as an honorary tip off kid before a game between Wyoming and BYU on Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011, in Laramie, Wyo. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) Wyoming guard JayDee Luster, left, hits BYU guard Jimmer Fredette (32) in the face as Fredette follows through on a three pointer during a game on Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011, in Laramie, Wyo. BYU won 69-62. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) Wyoming forward Chaundra Sewell (33) reacts as a Colorado State defender strips the ball away from her during a game on Saturday, Feb. 5, 2011, in Fort Collins. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) Burns players huddle up before taking the court to face Pine Bluffs in a girl’s basketball game on Saturday, Feb. 19, 2011, at Burns High School. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) Wyoming guard JayDee Luster (1) puts up a shot in front of Air Force guard/forward Taylor Stewart (15) and guard Michael Lyons (14) during a NCAA men’s basketball game on Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2011, in Laramie, Wyo. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) Cheyenne East’s Michael Galicia reacts as he’s twisted by Star Valley’s Dawson Loveland during a semi-final match in the 4A 215 pound weight class on Friday, Feb. 25, 2011, in Casper, Wyo. Loveland won the match. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) An official watches the action on a mat across the arena as he sits with his colleagues between matches during the Wyoming high school state wrestling tournament on Saturday, Feb. 26, 2011, in Casper, Wyo. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) Nathalia Rap, age 16, holds hands with her peers as she takes part in a traditional Jewish dance during Hebrew School on Sunday, Feb. 27, 2011, at the Mount Sinai Congregation in Cheyenne. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) Sen. Bill Landen, R-Casper, right, speaks to Sen. Leland Christensen, R-Alta, as the senators take a break while they wait for two bills to make their way from the House to the Senate during the last day of the 61st Legislature’s session on Thursday, March 3, 2011, at the Wyoming State Capitol in Cheyenne. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) Lovell’s Karen Koritnik watches as the ball bounces away from her as she falls to the floor with Burns’ Becca Miller during the Class 2A championship game on Saturday, March 5, 2011, in Casper, Wyo. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) Cheyenne East’s Derek Graves, right, watches from the bench with teammate Cameron Jaure during the closing minutes of a loss to Evanston in a Class 4A game in the state tournament fifth place bracket on Friday, March 11, 2011, in Casper, Wyo. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) Wheatland’s Muira Bunker, center, celebrates with her teammates after a 47-41 win against Buffalo in the Class 3A girl’s basketball state championship game on Saturday, March 12, 2011, in Casper, Wyo. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) Wheatland’s Shaya Irvine, top right, grabs a rebound during the first half of the Class 3A girl’s basketball state championship game against Buffalo on Saturday, March 12, 2011, in Casper, Wyo. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) Aspen Rewerts, right, a kindergarten student at Jessup Elementary, reacts before hugging Mark Stock, superintendent of Laramie County School District No. 1, after Stock checked her work before recess on Thursday, March 24, 2011, at the school. Stock was teaching in place of Kathleen Blaes-Garcia for the day after Blaes-Garcia won a contest for donating to the Cheyenne School Foundation. “It’s been refreshing,” said Stock, who taught third and sixth graders for eight years before becoming an administrator. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) Wyoming basketball coach Larry Shyatt speaks with members of the media after a press conference introducing him as the new Wyoming men’s basketball coach on Wednesday, April 6, 2011, at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, Wyo. Shyatt, who was most recently an assistant coach at Florida, returns to head a program he coached for one season in 1997-1998 before leaving to coach at Clemson. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) Briana Hakala, age 5, concentrates as she works on a craft during a session for youngsters on Wednesday, April 6, 2011, at the Laramie County Library. Hakala was one of several youngsters, out of school for spring break, who stopped by for craft time. Organizers said they expected to go through at least a gallon of glue. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) Cheyenne East students share a laugh before climbing into wrecked vehicles to portray victims at the scene of a fatal accident for a drunken driving crash demonstration on Tuesday, April 12, 2011, at Okie Blanchard Stadium in Cheyenne, Wyo. The demonstration coincides with East’s prom on Saturday. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) Mark Madrid, a 10th grader at Cheyenne East High School, plays his guitar during a jam session on Thursday, April 14, 2011, in the teen lounge at the Laramie County Library. The library holds an acoustic instrument jam session on the second Thursday of each month in the second-floor lounge. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) Cheyenne East’s Rachel Erickson (6) reacts as she falls to the pitch after contact with Kelly Walsh defender Rachel Franke during a high school girl’s soccer game on Tuesday, April 19, 2011, at Cheyenne East High School. Erickson connected on the free kick as East cruised to a 5-0 win. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) Youngsters react as they run into the Children’s Village at the Botanic Gardens for an Easter egg hunt on Saturday, April 23, 2011, in Lion’s Park. Workers opened the gates at 11 a.m. to a stampede of children who cleared the park of Easter eggs within five minutes. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) Cheyenne Central keeper Kelley Fisher reaches back to bat a ball over the crossbar as she poses for a portrait on Monday, April 25, 2011, at the school in Cheyenne, Wyo. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) Kathi Wilson, of Cheyenne, laughs as she performs a trick with her horse, Snickers, on Friday, April 29, 2011, at the Riata Ranch near Cheyenne. Snickers, a wild-born horse, was adopted from the Steve Mantle Training Facility in 2003. Several people came to the ranch on Friday to view yearling mustangs that will be auctioned off by the Bureau of Land Management starting at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday morning. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) Auctioneer Scott Fluer, of Lander, auctions off a wild-born horse during an adoption sale on Saturday, April 30, 2011, at the Riata Ranch near Cheyenne. The Bureau of Land Management captures wild horses each year and auction them off after some training in an effort to control the wild horse population. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) Wild horse trainer Steve Mantle watches as officials from the Bureau of Land Management auction off several horses trained at his ranch on Saturday, April 30, 2011, at the Riata Ranch near Cheyenne. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) A Gillette batter warms up before taking his turn at the plate during a baseball game against Cheyenne Post 6 on Saturday, May 7, 2011, at Powers Field in Cheyenne. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) Cheyenne Post 6 catcher Rafer Cooley reacts as he’s hit in the facemask by a pitch during a baseball game on Saturday, May 7, 2011, at Powers Field in Cheyenne. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) Cheyenne East’s Jalen Willett (5) plays the ball away from Gillette’s Cody Nice during a boy’s soccer regional game on Thursday, May 12, 2011, at Cheyenne South High School. East won 4-2. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) Students and professors bow their heads in prayer before a procession into a tent for Wyoming Catholic College’s first commencement exercises on Saturday, May 14, 2011, in Lander, Wyo. The school bestowed 30 liberal arts degrees at the inaugural graduation. (Photo by James Brosher) Scenes from the first commencement exercises for Wyoming Catholic College on Saturday, May 14, 2011, in Lander, Wyoming. (Photo by James Brosher) Laramie’s Vitor Nazareth, Brock Mosier (16) and Arlo Stansbury celebrate a Laramie goal during the Class 4A boy’s state soccer championship game on Saturday, May 21, 2011, in Sheridan, Wyo. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) Spectators watch the action from under a tarp as Rock Springs takes on Sheridan in a boy’s state soccer quarterfinal on Thursday, May 19, 2011, in Sheridan, Wyo. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) Laramie’s Lindsey Martinez (3) heads the ball away from Cheyenne East’s Chelsea Crampton-Weber during a Class 4A girl’s state soccer semifinal on Friday, May 20, 2011, in Sheridan, Wyo. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) Kelly Walsh’s Patrick Cardinal celebrates after rolling the ball into the goal for a score during a Class 4A boy’s state soccer semifinal against Laramie on Friday, May 20, 2011, in Sheridan, Wyo. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) Laramie’s Jimi Gomez reacts as an official issues a red card to teammate Andrew Johnson and coach Andy Pannell during a Class 4A boy’s state soccer semifinal on Friday, May 20, 2011, in Sheridan, Wyo. Laramie played without its coach and down a player for most of the game, but came back to win 3-2. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) Laramie keeper Rachel Rettinger reacts after allowing a goal during penalty kicks overtime in the Class 4A girl’s state soccer championship game against Gillette on Saturday, May 21, 2011, in Sheridan, Wyo. Laramie lost in a shootout 2-1 (3-1). (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) Laramie’s Ian Muller (3) shares a moment with a teammate after a 2-1 loss to Sheridan in the Class 4A boy’s state soccer championship game on Saturday, May 21, 2011, in Sheridan, Wyo. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) Soon-to-be Cheyenne Central grads stand in front of their seats during the school’s graduation processional on Friday, May 27, 2011, at Frontier Park. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) Soon-to-be graduates try to stay warm as they stand in line to receive their diplomas during Cheyenne’s East High School graduation on Saturday, May 28, 2011, at Okie Blanchard Stadium. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) A Cheyenne Post 6 junior varsity player leaves Powers Field after the junior varsity game was called due to dense fog on Sunday, May 29, 2011, in Cheyenne. The fog blanketed the outfield making it hard to see pop ups, forcing officials to postpone a game between Cheyenne Post 6 and Ralston Valley until 9 a.m. on Monday. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) Clarence Porter, a member of the Forty and Eight Club, walks down a cemetery road after a Memorial Day ceremony on Monday, May 30, 2011, at Beth El Cemetery in Cheyenne. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) Isaac Salas looks up as he talks with Jenniy Peltier, one of his favorite therapists from Craig Hospital, during a hospital field trip to Bear Creek Lake Park on Friday, June 3, 2011, near Lakewood, Colo. Earlier in the day, Isaac, 16, cruised a nearby beach with Jenniy pretending to talk to bikini-clad girls. “You can look, Isaac. But keep moving. There’s something creepy about a guy walking around looking at girls,” Jenniy said. “Good for them I’m rolling,” Isaac quipped. His joking nature was something his mother, Melisaa Plumley, described as “Isaac being Isaac,” an aspect of his personality that continued to ring true after his accident. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) Cheyenne Post 6 center fielder Brandon Nimmo gives a rock on sign to his coach after successfully stealing second base during a high school baseball game on Saturday, June 4, 2011, at Powers Field in Cheyenne. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) Cheyenne Post 6 catcher Rafer Cooley hits the turf as he twists back to make a play on a foul ball that eventually dropped to the ground during a high school baseball game against Denver Hit Streak on Saturday, June 4, 2011, at Powers Field in Cheyenne. Post 6 won 12-4. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) Jackson Hamm, age 8, tosses a bucket of water through a window at a bucket brigade activity during a kids cowboy festival on Saturday, June 11, 2011, at Frontier Park. The bucket activity proved to be one of the most popular activities for several kids at the event. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) Cheyenne Post 6 outfielder Brandon Nimmo carries his equipment to the dugout as the sun sets before a legion league game on Tuesday, June 21, 2011, at Powers Field in Cheyenne, Wyo. (James Brosher / Special to New York Post) Cheyenne mayor Richard Kaysen hugs a friend after an address at an opening ceremony for a replica of the Vietnam Wall on Thursday, June 23, 2011, in Lions Park. Kaysen served in the Army during the Vietnam War as a K-9 scout dog handler. The wall, containing the names of the more than 58,000 who died in the Vietnam War, will be on display until Sunday. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) Cheyenne Post 6 pitcher Charlie O’Grady throws to a Torrington batter during a legion league baseball game on Wednesday, June 29, 2011, at Powers Field in Cheyenne. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) Austin Brown relaxes on a railing as he fishes in the rain on Wednesday, June 29, 2011, on Sloan Lake in Lions Park. Brown and his cousin, Tyler Kendall, had caught three fish by early afternoon on Tuesday. “It’s the best time (to fish) when it’s raining,” Brown said of their fishing success. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) Edward Cullen, a City of Cheyenne employee, puts his arm up as he hops over a downed tree limb on Thursday, June 30, 2011, along House Avenue between Sixth and Seventh streets on the city’s southeast side. Cheyenne spent part of the evening under a severe thunderstorm warning as rain and high winds swept across the area. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) A crime scene technician takes a measurement in a window of a mobile home that appears to have been broken by a bullet on Friday, July 8, 2011, at 757 E. Oak St. #19 in Wheatland, Wyo. Wheatland police arrested Everett Conant III at the home Thursday evening after a shooting that left four people dead and one injured. The yellow and magenta sticks protruding from the building are commonly used to determine bullet trajectories in crime scene investigations. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) A rafter makes her way down a waterway on Sunday, July 10, 2011, in downtown Denver. (Photo by James Brosher) Dave Hefenieder, a Cheyenne employee, uses a pitch fork to unclog a storm drain at the intersection of 23rd Street and Bradley Avenue on Tuesday, July 12, 2011, in Cheyenne. Cheyenne received 1.46 inches of rain between 5:15 and 5:50 p.m., according to the National Weather Service along with hail up to golf ball size. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) Rose Threewitt, center, 7, helps her sister, Maggie Threewitt, 7, get her costume on as Mandy Hill, who plays the part of the heroine Lacie Camisole, puts on her makeup before the opening night of the 55th Old Fashioned Melodrama on Thursday, July 14, 2011, at the Atlas Theatre in Cheyenne. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) Ken Willis, of Cheyenne, listens to a conversation during a chuckwagon breakfast before the start of the Cheyenne Frontier Days cattle drive on Sunday, July 17, 2011, north of Cheyenne. Willis was serving coffee during the breakfast. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) A man crosses the road with his youngster after a chuckwagon breakfast before the Cheyenne Frontier Days cattle drive on Sunday, July 17, 2011, in Cheyenne. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) Sarah Kieckhefer from Prescott, Ariz. rounds the third barrel on her horse during the first go of barrel racing on Tuesday, July 19, 2011, at Frontier Park. Kieckhefer finished the run with a time of 18.71 seconds. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) Matt Kenney from Onawa, Iowa hops off his horse and chases down a calf after he roped it during the first go of slack tie-down roping on Wednesday, July 20, 2011, at Frontier Park. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) Jack Osborn, left, 10, and Brayden Wiesen, 11, take a break towards the end of the day inside of a chute during the first go of slack tie-down roping on Wednesday, July 20, 2011, at Frontier Park. Several youngsters including the two funneled cattle into chute 9 from 8 a.m. to about noon for slack tie-down roping. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) Emily Underwood, 17, bottom pesters Tao Allen, 9, left, Tug Allen, 11, and Marcus Cole, 8, as they offer her their hats behind chute 9 during Cheyenne Frontier Days steer roping on Friday, July 22, 2011, at Frontier Park. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) Paul Tierney from Oral, S.D. practices his roping behind chute 9 during Cheyenne Frontier Days steer roping on Friday, July 22, 2011, at Frontier Park. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) David Morgan from Arvada, Colo., fires an American-revolution era Brown Bess musket during a demonstration for visitors during the first day of Fort D.A. Russell Days on Friday, July 22, 2011, at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) Caleb Her Many Horses dances in a Native American men’s fancy dance during Cheyenne Frontier Days on Saturday, July 23, 2011, in the Indian Village at Frontier Park. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) A family watches as a covered wagon passes the intersection of Capitol Avenue and 21st Street during the Cheyenne Frontier Days parade on Saturday, July 23, 2011, in downtown Cheyenne. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) Tyler Scales from Severence, Colo. rides a horse named Phillip Scott bareback during the Cheyenne Frontier Days rodeo on Tuesday, July 26, 2011, at Frontier Park. Scales registered no time on the ride. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) Shawn Downing from Silver Star, Mont. wrestles a steer during the Cheyenne Frontier Days rodeo on Tuesday, July 26, 2011, at Frontier Park. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) Rankin Lindsey from Hillsboro, N.M. falls from a bull during the Cheyenne Frontier Days rodeo on Tuesday, July 26, 2011, at Frontier Park. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) Cheyenne Gunslinger Dave Tea Burton, also known as “Crockett,” poses for a portrait on the Gunslinger’s stage on Wednesday, July 27, 2011, in downtown Cheyenne. “I’ve wore one since I was 14,” the native of South London, England said of his cowboy outfit. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) Sam Wyatt from Fittstown, Okla. tries to avoid a bull after getting tossed during the Cheyenne Frontier Days rodeo on Thursday, July 28, 2011, at Frontier Park. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) Kelly Timberman from Mills, Wyo. tapes up his arm before a bareback ride during the Cheyenne Frontier Days rodeo on Friday, July 29, 2011, at Frontier Park. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) Trick rider Kellie Brown performs during the Cheyenne Frontier Days rodeo on Friday, July 29, 2011, at Frontier Park. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) Zac Brown reacts as he plays to the crowd with the Zac Brown Band during a Cheyenne Frontier Days performance on Friday, July 29, 2011, at Frontier Park. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) Todd Suhn from Hermosa, S.D. wrestles a steer to the ground during the Cheyenne Frontier Days rodeo on Saturday, July 30, 2011, at Frontier Park. He logged a time of 9.7 seconds. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) Logan Stockton, 6, falls to the ground after letting go of a sheep during the Laramie County Fair’s mutton bustin on Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2011, at Frontier Park. Stockton scored a 78. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle) Under an arch made of pink balloons, runners leave the starting line for the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure on Saturday, Aug. 13, 2011, in front of the Wyoming State Capitol. Laine Parish won the 5K with a time of 15:42.02. (James Brosher/Wyoming Tribune Eagle)