Amberley Snyder (born January 29, 1991) is an American Professional rodeo cowgirl who specializes in barrel racing. She also competed in pole bending and breakaway roping. In 2010, Snyder suffered a car crash that paralyzed her from the waist down. She adapted to the injury and kept competing. In 2015, she competed at a high level when she won a fan exemption to compete at The American Rodeo. Snyder is now a motivational speaker.

Amberley Snyder was born January 29, 1991, in California to Tina and Cory Snyder. She is the second-oldest of her five siblings, Ashley, JC, Taylor, Aubrey, and Autumn.^[1]

Snyder first rode a horse at the age of three and began competing in rodeo barrel racing when she was seven years old.^[2] After that, she spent summer weekends barrel racing, pole bending, and breakaway roping.^[3] She won the 2009 All-Around Cowgirl World Championship in the National Little Britches Rodeo Association. She was the 2009–2010 Utah State FFA President.^[4]

On January 10, 2010, Snyder was driving from Utah to the National Western Stock Show in Denver, Colorado, and did not fasten her seat belt after a gas station stop in Rawlins, Wyoming. Less than 10 miles from the gas station, she looked down to check her map, drifted into the other lane, over-corrected, and her truck slid off the road and rolled seven times.^[5] She was thrown from the truck and slammed into a fence post, which crushed her T-12 vertebra and left her paralyzed from the waist down.^[6] With the help of physical therapy, and a seat belt on her saddle, she was later able to resume riding and competing in rodeo a year and a half later.^[7] She transferred from Snow College to Utah State University where she was captain of the school's National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association team.^[5] She also won the Shane Drury "Nothin' But Try" scholarship in 2014.^[8]

In 2015, Amberley won a fan exemption^[9] to compete in RFD-TV's The American Rodeo at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas,^[10][11] and made a time of 15.3 seconds with her horse Power, only 0.6 seconds slower than the winning time.^[2] In 2016, she was in the top five for the Rocky Mountain Pro Rodeo Association, and she also won her Women's Professional Rodeo Association card in 2016,^[7] and now competes in the RAM Wilderness Circuit.^[12]

Snyder works as a motivational speaker,^[6] and posts a weekly "Wheelchair Wednesday" video on social media to showcase everyday tasks that have become more challenging.^[3] She has also written an illustrated children's book Walk Ride Rodeo about overcoming adversity.

Snyder's story was portrayed in a Netflix biopic Walk. Ride. Rodeo., released on March 8, 2019. She performed all the post-crash horse stunts in the film. Because of the similarity of their riding styles, her younger sister Autumn performed the pre-crash stunts. She also made a brief appearance as herself in the 3rd season of Yellowstone.^{[13][14][15][16]}