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.

Dear Roper

The Team Roping Journal

RECORD-SETTING

THE GRIPP

SAN ANTONIO SUMMER

ON THE LEVELLAND

VEGAS IN DECEMBER IS THE DESTINATION FOR YOUTH RODEO, ALL OF TEAM ROPING WORLD • The Patriot Event and The Ariat World Series of Team Roping will take over Sin City for more competition than ever before for everyone in the family.

DT SUGAR CHEX WHIZ STALLIONS THE DARKK SIDE AND THE NOTORIOUS B I G GO 1-2 IN PLATINUM MEDAL HEELING

BILLIE JACK SAEBENS CAPITALIZES ON LONE PLATINUM MEDAL HEADING ENTRY, WINS $10,000 ON BONNY FRECKLES T4

HAYES SMITH & JUSTIN DAVIS TAKE 2024 CHEYENNE FRONTIER DAYS WIN • From lifelong dreams to honoring friends, Hayes Smith and Justin Davis’ 2024 Cheyenne Frontier Days win is one for the history books.

COLEMAN PROCTOR STRIKES AGAIN AS 2024 CHEYENNE ALL-AROUND CHAMP • Coleman Proctor now has two Cheyenne Frontier Days all-around titles.

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(At Home With) • After a slow start to 2024, it took Tyler Tryan until early summer to take the lead in the 2024 Resistol Rookie Header of the Year race. Armed with lessons learned this first year out on the hot and dusty, the son of three-time World Champion Header Clay Tryan, who's 18 and calls Lipan, Texas, home, is ready to take on his sophomore season as a professional header.

REMEMBERING ONE-SWING KING & COACH POPEYE BOULTINGHOUSE

THE MAGIC OF MASTERING THE GAIN-TO-SEPARATION RATIO

USMC VETERAN ROOK RAWLS REMEMBERS 9/11 FROM QUANTICO • The name Rook Rawls might ring a fun-loving bell, but many may not know Rawls stepped away from roping in his 20s to volunteer his service to our country.

TOP 5 TAKEOVERS ABOUND IN RESISTOL JR RACE: LEXI ANDREWS & HOUSTON CHILDERS ARE NO. 1 • The 2025 USTRC Resistol Jr. Champion standings are upended in both the heading and the heeling, with Florida's Lexi Andrews and the 2023 Resistol Jr. heeler champ, Georgia's Houston Childers, have taken over at the top.

LADIES LIGHT IT UP: LEXI ANDREWS & JIMMI JO MONTERA LEAD • Lexi Andrews launched into first place in the 2025 USTRC Cinch Ladies standings following active weeks resulting in total Top 5 shakeups and heeler Jimmi Jo Montera widening the gap on her lead—even with Whitney DeSalvo entering the race.

5 FLAT with Joseph Harrison

Next Level with Tate Kirchenschlager

WE NEED COLT STARTERS • The rope horse industry needs people to ride 2-year-olds to make better end products.

Freeze Frame

Game Plan with Trey Yates

Top 5 Most-Watched Videos on Roping.com • These are the most-watched videos from the last six months on Roping.com. Safe to say, team ropers are bingeing training content, with the new releases from Tate Kirchenschlager getting the most views from ropers eager to learn secrets from the two-time ARHFA World Champion and NFR-qualifying header.

OVERCOMING THE ODDS: THE RETURN OF RAMBO • Gritty Bay Ducks Death to Take 2024 Arizona Horse of Year Award

Help is huge • NO FUTURITY HORSE CAN BECOME A CHAMPION WITHOUT A GOOD CAMPAIGNER ON THE OTHER END.

All Ships Rise • The rope horse industry is booming. How are horse trainers—and everyday ropers— responding? And what needs to happen for it to keep growing?

The 5 Most Common Horsemanship Mistakes Headers Make • Team ropers today—as a whole—are making huge strides in their horsemanship. With climbing...