How Allen and Peggy Bach keep the romance alive through rodeoing.

Professional baseball player Tyson Perez swaps his fastball for swinging a rope in the offseason.

Rube Woolsey is a four-time Wrangler National Finals Rodeo header who now does a little occasional heeling at World Series events. Rube, 50, spends most of his time helping other ropers up their game and hosting happy campers at his family’s Walking N Arena. Rube and his wife, Carrie, make their home at the Walking N in Casa Grande, Arizona, with their sons, Rube Anthony, who’s about to turn 19, and Nolan, 17.

Fourth-generation rancher Jesse Jolly likes to keep it cowboy and has three World Champion Ranch Rodeo titles to prove it.

Roping revolutionary Leo Camarillo was inducted into the ProRodeo Hall of Fame as a member of the inaugural Class of 1979. The Lion, who will turn 74 on January 25, won four world team roping titles in 1972-73, ’75 and ’83, and was the co-world all-around champion with Tom Ferguson in 1975. Native Californian Leo— whose family includes his wife, Sue, two sons, Wade and Trey, and a daughter, Cassie—lives in Maricopa, Arizona.

Cam Dahozy sports his 2014 International Indian National Finals Rodeo regional roping buckle.

Kal Fuller takes top honors as the 2019 Resistol Rookie Header of the Year.

Team Roping Roots Run Deep in Grand Canyon State.

The faces that breathe life into the Arizona team roping community.

Seven cowboys have qualified for the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo, both in the heading and heeling.

How team roping is healing Michelle Arbizo after the tragic loss of her son, 20-year-old Dominic Romero.

When 1974 World Champion team roper H.P. Evetts hit the pro circuit, he was a wolf and, to many, an outlaw. But today, ropers recognize Evetts as a gamechanger: a founding father of the reach and modern-day heading.

Last December, Hunter Koch attended his first Wrangler National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas as a spectator, thanks to a ticket given to him as a gift from his grandma. While standing in the shuttle line to leave the Thomas & Mack Center after the rodeo, Koch snapped a shot of the building. He set the goal right then and there to rope at the Finals, and has since used that picture as the screen saver on his phone as a daily reminder. Koch, who’s a 22-year-old native of Vernon, Texas, will heel at his first NFR next month.

Whether he’s home in his native Brazil or here in America, Lincoln Figueiredo ropes all day every day. Heeling is his favorite—he’s an 8.5 on the back side—but he’s packed all kinds of roping into a very full 46 years. Figueiredo lives in Presidente Prudente, Sao Paulo, Brazil, with his wife, Marina, and baby girl, also Marina.

For heeler Randy Lewis, DVM, becoming a horse doctor wasn’t a choice he made. Instead, it was just a fact of life since as long as he can remember.

Although header Zane Tisdale has a lot of pride in his leatherwork, it’s a passion that shares space with a full-time job, roping and, most importantly, his growing family.

Holly Ricken, of Boone, Colorado, breaks into the Cinch Ladies Standings Top 5 with a powerhouse month of roping in May.

Texas header Anna Gregory connects with her 6th-grade students over horses when language barriers exist.

Zanga Shutte is a roping rancher from the big island. Shutte, 60, runs a cow-calf operation in Kamuela, Hawaii, where he lives with his wife, Kimberly, and three kids, Brooke, Trent and Kawohi.

Wesley Thorp's Bob Feist Invitational buckle.

Sometimes a certain trait gets attributed to an entire line of horses. Here’s a look at the rumors behind these popular bloodlines.

How Jade Corkill reworked his roping for 2019.