Community Coffee: Shane Hanchey

Community Coffee has been part of Shane’s life for a few years now. “What a better fit,” he said of the partnership. “Their consumers are the western world, and we are the people they sell to.” Shane, a chef himself, loves the coffee; his favorite is the Signature Blend. Shane and his wife, Taylor, run a food trailer, Bo’s Boil n Geaux, specializing in crawfish boils, shrimp, gumbo, and all things Cajun. “We go from Stephenville to Weatherford, and Giddings.” The food trailer is a side job for now.
Shane’s fulltime job is tie down roping and he has made 13 consecutive world finals with his skills. The Sulphur, Louisiana, native started roping left handed, but switched to right handed when he was young. He played a lot of sports and didn’t get serious about roping until high school. “I realized I could make a living at this.” He went through the Louisiana High School Rodeo Association, making Nationals all four years, and winning the state twice. He went to college in 2009, making the CNFR, and earned Resistol Rookie of the Year in 2009. He made his first of 13 appearances at the Wrangler National Finals in 2010.
Shane has had his share of misfortune, missing two world championships by one tenth of a second. He has also lost two horses, one two weeks before the 2021 WNFR. He has never let any of adversity stop him. “I still battle with it every day – I still think about it; but in order to move on and keep my head up, I’ve got to be confident and trust what God has in store for me and He has a bigger plan than what you think you have.”
This year started off great. He won Greeley and has moved into the fourth position in the world for now. “I’ve been on the road since the beginning of June,” he said. “My wife is breakaway roping so we have different schedules. I get to see her, just not rodeo with her.” Shane plans to be home after Pendleton for a short time before heading out again. Shane met his wife, Taylor Jacob, through rodeo. As fate would have it, she broke down coming back from Calgary and he pulled up to help … and the rest is history. They share a love of horses, rodeo, roping, and business. She made the WNFR in 2013 and 2015. They started dating in 2015 and got married in April of 2021. They have relocated to Texas.
He knows and appreciates all of his sponsor partnerships. “If I want them to stay on my shirts I’ve got to compete at the highest level.”
The first thing that comes to his mind about future goals are more world titles. “That is obviously the first thing, but after that, we want the food trailer to be successful. We hope to have kids and I’d like to be retired from rodeo by the time I’m 40. Then I want to ride off into the sunset with no regrets.”