Life can’t take him away.
A year after ripping out his groin at Madison Square Garden, world champion jockey Daylon Swearingen returned to the world’s most famous arena over the weekend in search of another 24 thrilling seconds atop a ferocious beast.
“Last year here I tore my groin off my pelvis,” the Piffard, New York, cowboy told the Post on Friday. “The groins are like a pretty big injury: not many people rip them off completely.”
Swearingen, 24, suffered the horrific injury in the second round of the Professional Bull Riders league’s crown jewel event of its Unleash the Beast series.
Riders must hold on to a bull for a full eight seconds to score points and win millions of dollars in prizes.
“I had a partial tear and then all of a sudden it tore completely,” he recalled. “That kept me out for about six months.”
World Champion Rider Daylon Swearingen returned to the World’s Most Famous Arena over the weekend looking for another 24 thrilling seconds on top of a ferocious beast. Stefan Jeremiah for the New York Post
Now fully recovered, the 5-foot-6, 150-pound star was unfazed by returning to the big stage at the Garden, saying it was all about “keeping her mental game on top.”
“Anything can be frustrating if you let it be,” Swearingen said with a slight Southern tone from his hotel in Midtown. “The way I see it, that’s part of bull riding.
“My body already knows how to ride the bull and as long as my mind knows I can ride it too, you know, and I think that’s the most important thing,” he said. “Making sure you hit the refresh button and do it, do what you have to do.”
Swearingen is no stranger to second chances; in fact, they are hereditary.
Swearingen, 24, suffered the horrific injury in the second round of the Professional Bull Riders league’s crown jewel event of its Unleash the Beast series. Stefan Jeremiah for the New York Post was unfazed by the return to the Garden’s big stage, saying it was all about “keeping the mental game on top.” Stefan Jeremiah for the New York Post
He was just a child when his mother, Carrie Swearingen, was shot in the head by her ex-husband. She miraculously survived and moved Daylon and his younger brother Colton from South Carolina to her hometown of Piffard.
“You can’t tell by looking at my mom, but if you lift the back of her hair, you can see it. She still has like 22 pieces of shrapnel there,” Daylon said.
“I think that’s where a lot of my toughness comes from: probably my mother. There is always a chance that when something bad traumatizes you, you can choose a path. And she definitely chose a path: she went back to school to be a nurse.”
Carrie, now a registered nurse, played a key role in her son’s burgeoning bull riding ambitions, taking him from riding horses at home to breaking lambs when he was young.
“I’ve always been involved in rodeo, my brother and I always were,” Daylon recalled. “It sounds bad, but we used to ride my mom. Pretend she was a bull. When we were little, we would put a little rope on her and try to ride her as if she were the bull.”
His mother played a key role in her son’s burgeoning bull riding ambitions, taking him from riding horses at home to breaking lambs when he was young. Stefan Jeremiah for New York Post Swearingen prepares for his first race in the first round of the race for the 2024 PBR World Championship Stefan Jeremiah for New York Post He faced 40 of the best bull riders in the world seeking the buckle championship gold in the multi-city competition. . Stefan Jeremiah for the New York Post
Daylon has shown her affection for her mother to her 72,000 Instagram followers, posting about how she won the top honors in her own profession: a DAISY award.
“Beyond proud of my mom,” he wrote in June with a photo of them smiling together.
It’s been a short ride to the top for Daylon, who turned pro in 2018 and has $2.5 million in career earnings.
He is currently ranked 24th in the Unleash the Beast series with 62 points and closed his 2022 championship season with 1,567.50 points.
At MSG, Daylon faced off against 40 of the world’s best bull riders seeking the gold buckle championship in the multi-city competition. The final will be in Texas in May.
“I’m excited to be back,” said the young bovine chief. “Every time you come to Madison Square Garden, you know there’s a different atmosphere in there and you can’t really describe it.”
Swearingen is currently ranked 24th in the Unleash the Beast series with 62 points and closed his 2022 championship season with 1,567.50 points. Stefan Jeremiah for the New York Post
On Friday night of the premiere, Daylon took off “in a super second,” faster than he could anticipate.
“I just sat down and he pulled me out and pushed me,” she said. “As soon as I thought about the change he had to make, I fell to the ground.”
He made up for it on Saturday, scoring 85.5 points by hanging on to the Nighttime Crime bull the entire time after promising to “stay with that motherfucker for eight seconds.” However, he was defeated during the final round of the competition on Sunday in 4.64 seconds. He finished the event tied for 13th.
“This is a really humbling sport, you know? You can be on top for a week,” Daylon said. “I mean, even in 2022 when I won it. One week [I was] Performed on a stretcher, the following week I won two events, making it a humbling sport for me. In and out throughout the season.”
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