The Score from The Team Roping Journal

This episode is a little different than the typical team roper talk. Today's guests are Donene Taylor, the 2016 WPRA World Champion tie-down roper, author and mental performance coach, as well as her great friend Lari Dee Guy, who relies on Taylor for her mental coaching. Donene’s story is inspiring, to say the least. She built her career in the arena, piece by piece, from the ground up, all while...

Buddy Hawkins II, a two-time Wrangler NFR qualifier from Columbus, Kansas, works as hard as anyone in the business to get his roping as sharp as it can be. Hawkins shares tips on how to maintain a good position while roping and how he's made use out of this downtime.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

California's Spencer Mitchell—a two-time Wrangler National Finals Rodeo qualifier—is taking this COVID-19 downtime to focus on his heading. Mitchell takes the time to share tips on how to approach your roping to make it consistent and how to achieve a goal while roping the dummy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hope Thompson—a two-time Women's Professional Rodeo Association World Champion from Abilene, Texas—is one of the leading ladies in the industry who has made a name for herself with rope in hand. On this audio roping lesson, Thompson takes the time to talk through how slowing down your roping can, and will, help you to be fast.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Trey Yates—the 2018 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo average champ from Pueblo, Colorado—has lived and breathed team roping his entire life. So with COVID-19's Great Pause gripping the world, Yates is taking this first-ever down time to hone in his mental focus without the rat race of ProRodeo and jackpots. On this audio roping lesson, Yates talks through how he's approaching his practices so he's f...

We've waited to do an interview on 'The Score' with Clay O’Brien Cooper—the Champ—for years now. The seven-time world champion has almost $4 million in ProRodeo’s earnings, but it’s been his steady demeanor, paired with his monthly presence in  The Team Roping Journal  and our predecessor,  Spin To Win , that’s made him one of the most beloved names in all of team roping. He’s as ev...

We have something to share with you all. We are excited about the Ariat World Series of Team Roping's latest Practice Pen Challenge . We already have a few teams that have won the challenge and are headed to Las Vegas in December. Plus, don't forget to get entered in the Win A Day with Clay Smith, brought to you by ADM Animal Nutrition. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Repetitive practice—focusing on position, swing, target and delivery—will beat high-volume practice any day of the week, according to eight-time World Champion Rich Skelton on this episode of The Score's Roping Lesson bonus podcast.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Cowan family is credited for bringing us greats like Sun Frost and his son PC Frenchmans Hayday through their South Dakota Horse Program T4 Quarter Horses . Their program combines 50 years of breeding know-how with a solid, ranch-based start. Just recently, Trevor Brazile came across a brown mare from their program—registered as PC Ike Ike Baby—that he felt was too good not to go big time—so h...

An audio edition of This is Living: The Cody Nessmith Story, the story on how a rare, terminal cancer diagnosis couldn't keep Cody Nessmith from the 2019 Ariat World Series of Team Roping Finale. You can follow Cody's journey here: A Cowboy's Journey Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oklahoma heeler Dustin Searcy has won jackpots and rodeos at every level, and his  great horse Rio carried Wesley Thorp through the 2018 NFR .  Searcy is spending time in the practice pen this month during the COVID-19 crisis tuning up his mounts. Here's what he's up to, and how you can implement his tips into your practice routine.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more i...

California horse trainer Bert McGill makes head horses that ProRodeo's best seek out, year in and year out. For the first time, we've tapped McGill for an audio roping lesson on The Score, and he provided us with a lesson on pen roping—an often overlooked but critical step in the rope-horse-making process. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Colby Lovell, rodeo's hog-hunting header from South Texas, has won almost $900,000 in his 14-year careering ProRodeo. He's roped with greats like Martin Lucero, Kory Koontz and Russell Cardoza, and he turned heads at the 2020 RFD-TV's The American heading for young-gun Jared Fillmore, placing second worth $25,000 a man.  Lovell spends his spare time with his wife and two children working on t...

Chelsea Shaffer and Kaitlin Gustave talk about the April 2020 issue and what they've been up to during this stay-at-home quarantine. This episode is brought to you by Straight Arrow. Visit  www.manentailequine.com ,   www.cowboymagic.com ,   www.exhibitorsequine.com , www.straightarrowinc.com . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

National Finals Rodeo header Kolton Schmidt has honed his horsemanship with the likes of DT Horses’ legendary trainer Shawn Grant , and he’s spending his time during rodeo’s COVID-19 hiatus to instill confidence in his horses with a special set of drills. Applicable on the sled or slow steers, Schmidt’s advice is designed to improve roper’s horsemanship and insure that horses are sharp and focused...

Rich Skelton, with his eight consecutive gold buckles, knows a thing or two about setting himself up for success in the practice pen. In this episode of The Score podcast, Skelton provides a quick roping tip as ropers head to the practice pen.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

PRCA Team Roping director Matt Sherwood joins Chelsea Shaffer on The Short Score to talk about how he's dealing with COVID-19, the roping and rodeo cancelations and his glimpse of hope when this is all over. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Roping Lesson with Lari Dee Guy: The Left Hand There’s no better time than now to hone your horsemanship. The staff at  The Team Roping Journal  is pairing up with the best in the world to provide regular audio tips that you can listen to while you’re riding, roping or just visualizing your runs. The first tip comes from WPRA World Champion and one of the rope horse industry’s leading tr...

I’ve always known Tyler Wade as a reacher, as the best story teller who’s ever lived, and as a hustler, who worked as hard as anyone I’ve known to stay on the road. I’ve always been impressed by his work ethic and his insane talent, but at the 2019 NFR, I was blown away by his ability to catch 10 steers as insanely fast as he did. He was fun to watch, and I think—in my conversations with so many o...

COVID-19 Update. How can we have this episode without talking about the corona virus? On this episode Chelsea Shaffer and Kaitlin Gustave talk about the corona virus and the effects that it's had on the world and the team roping community this far. They also talk about the winners of the Hork Dog 21, along with Paul Eaves tragic accident and the 2020 CINCH Timed Event Championships Champion Taylor...

The Short Score is more like a LONG score today. Enjoy three special interviews with the team roping champions at RFD-TV's The American. You'll hear from The American Open Champions Luke Brown and Joseph Harrison, the Ariat World Series of Team Roping's American Cowboy #12.5 Champions Buddy Reed and Hamp Conlan and the American Cowboy #10.5 Champions Octavio Espinoza and Erick Alvarado. Hosted on...

Shay Carroll, a two-time NFR heeler, originally from La Junta, Colorado, is an interesting guy. He's an all-around hand who's shown up in a short-brimmed custom hat to bulldog at places like the Cinch Timed Event Championships, and he's a switch-ender who took a few years off of heeling to spin some steers. Now, he's a horseman, who shows quarter horses for the elite breeders at DT Horses. Shay's...

Chelsea Shaffer and Kaitlin Gustave chat about the RFD-TVs The American Semi-Finals champions Nelson Wyatt and Logan Medlin, the Lone Star Shootout champions Cory Kidd V and Caleb Anderson, and upcoming events in PRCA Pro Rodeo, Ariat World Series of Team Roping and USTRC. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chelsea Shaffer is back on The Short Score with co-host Kaitlin Gustave. The duo chat about the most recent team roping headlines, Madison Bumgarner. Shaffer and Gustave go over what happened in recent PRCA Pro Rodeo news and remind you about upcoming Ariat World Series of Team Roping and USTRC events. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Score co-host Kaitlin Gustave sits down with the Mike Cervi Jr. Pro Classic Open Champions Clay Tryan and Chase Tryan. The Tryan cousins roped five head in 32.23 seconds, worth $16,622 a man. This episode is brought to you by Fast Back Ropes . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.