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Pendleton Roundup: Top-12 Team Ropers Going into Friday’s Performance

Here’s a look at which team ropers are in the top 12 at Pendleton Round up through Thursday’s Performance.
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Pendleton Roundup: Top-12 Team Ropers Going into Friday’s Performance
Pendleton Roundup: Top-12 Team Ropers Going into Friday’s Performance

It’s getting down to the wire at the Pendleton Roundup. After four days of tough competition only one performance is left to decide who will go on to the finals this Saturday Sept. 16.

The team roping has been a nitty, gritty fight to the finish. The teams have to stop the clock in two separate rounds of team roping. The times of those rounds are then averaged together. 

Only the top-12 teams (both the header and heeler) will get the opportunity for a third round at the finals. At the conclusion of the final round of all three of that teams times will then be averaged and the fastest average time wins the 2023 Pendleton Roundup finals. 

There are only ten more headers and heelers left to chase down their steer across the grass at Pendleton before we know what Saturday’s finale will look like. In the finals, both the top times from the individual round as well as the overall average will get a check. 

There are some team ropers on the edge of making the National Finals Rodeo this December so they are getting after every dollar they can. 

The Top-12 teams in the Average and their time after two rounds:

  1. Colter Todd/Derrick Begay - 11 seconds
  2. Jonathan Torres/Coy Rahlmann - 11.8
  3. Tyler Waters/Billie Jack Saebens - 12.1 
  4. Tyler Worley/Jake Clay - 12.5
  5. Ryan Motes/Aaron - Tsinigine and Clayton Hansen/Chase Hansen 12.8 (tie)
  6. Dalton Pearce/Cutter Machado - 13.3
  7. Josh Patton/Wyatt Bray - 13.4
  8. Bryce Crites/Rance Doyal - 14.1
  9. Ellis Yates/Zane Yates - 15.7
  10. Ryan Powell/Cody Craig - 15.8
  11. Dan Williams/Cody Stewart - 16.5
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Madi Roelofsen
MADI ROELOFSEN

Madi Roelofsen is a writer for Sports Illustrated's feature, Rodeo Daily. Madi not only writes about the western lifestyle and rodeo world but lives it daily. She attended Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas, and competed in the barrel racing as part of their rodeo team. Roelofsen graduated in 2019 with a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a minor in animal science. Madi enjoyed not only competing in rodeo events but also spectating the greatest sport on dirt. In 2017, while on vacation attending the National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas, she met her husband Tim Roelofsen. They got married a few years later in 2020. Tim had already established TVR Working Horses but together they grew their program and enjoy raising foals, training colts, barrel racing, team roping and standing their stallions (TVR Eye Needa Corona and CR Baron Bee Joy "Big Sexy") in both Texas and Iowa. They stay busy with the horses, farming alfalfa and raising their baby girl, Texi. Madi has always been passionate about horses, from learning about different bloodlines, breeding the foals themselves to training and competing. She expresses that passion within the articles she writes to open up the world of horses and rodeo to everyone.  Twitter-@Madi_Roelofsen  Facebook- @TVR Working Horses

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