The Team Roping Journal

Team Roping Journal educates and entertains readers who actively participate in the sport. We help you to obtain the best results with step-by-step instruction in how to perform at a higher level and win more often. After all, we all know that while the heart is in the land and on the ranch, the ego is alive and well when it comes to besting your friends in the arena.

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The Team Roping Journal

GET BACK • Dustin Egusquiza and Levi Lord picked up the win at the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo, winning $22,500 a man and catapulting them into the top three in the PRCA world standings at press time. This is Egusquiza's second win at San Antone and Lord's first.

KNOCKOUT • Matt Sherwood and Chase Helton scooped up $28,700 at the Ariat World Series of Team Roping's Title Fights in the #14.5 qualifier with a time of 28.54 seconds on four head. Held annually at Rancho Rio in Wickenburg, Arizona, the Title Fights paid out more than $1.65 million Feb. 8-11.

MASTERFUL • Chad Masters and Paden Bray pocketed $34,400 at the Clay Logan Open to the World, roping five steers in 31.36 seconds at the 377 Arena in Stephenville, Texas, on Feb. 5.

USTRC'S CINCH NATIONAL FINALS OF TEAM ROPING PRE-ENTRY DISCOUNTS END APRIL 11

DALTON TURNER AND DANIEL BRAMAN NOTCH BIGGEST CAREER WIN WITH $70,000 LONE STAR SHOOTOUT PAYOFF • Arkansas hustler Dalton Turner and South Texas oilfield man Daniel Braman just won the 2023 Lone Star Shootout their first time entered together.

ARIAT WSTR TITLE FIGHTS TOPS $1.65-MILLION PAYOUT

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(At Home With) • Kollin VonAhn is a two-time world champion heeler who's won well over $1 million in his professional rodeo career. He's also a three-time Wrangler National Finals Rodeo team roping average winner. The 39-year-old Sac City, Iowa, native now lives in Blanchard, Oklahoma, with his seven-time Wrangler National Finals Rodeo barrel racer wife, Angie Meadors, and their little girl, Steele, who's 6.

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THE CONSTANT WARRIOR • Since his service to the Marine Corps, Colorado's Tyler Wortman has had a desire to give back—a goal he's now realizing with the help of a few pros and a fellow warrior by his side.

HOME STRETCH: WALKER GUY AND HOUSTON CHILDERS ARE NO. 1 AHEAD OF FINALS • The USTRC Resistol Jr. Champion race will conclude in lockstep with the 34th USTRC Cinch National Finals of Team Roping on April 30. Walker Guy and Houston Childers are gunning for first in the race's final weeks.

TRACEY NELSON MAKES END-OF-SEASON MOVES TO STAY NO.1 CINCH LADIES HEADER • Florida's Tracey Nelson capitalized on the momentum of her climb to No. 1 in the USTRC Cinch Ladies Standings as the only roper to add points in February.

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WHEN NOT TO THROW • Choosing not to throw your rope can make as big of a difference as choosing to throw your rope.

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Fort Worth Fun 2023

Getting Over the NFR Hump • Every cowboy's path to Rodeo's Super Bowl is different. Some almost seem to snap their fingers and will themselves into red-and-white felt back numbers. For others, it's a much longer journey. We all now think of guys like Coleman Proctor, Jake Long, Nick Sartain and Buddy Hawkins as Wrangler National Finals Rodeo regulars. All four cowboys have had milliondollar-plus careers. But Proctor, Long and Sartain's roads to their first trips to Vegas were a lot longer than most might...