I still love to breakaway rope, but team roping makes more sense for me now. He checked my hands, and knew I’d listened and done it, because my hands blistered, then bled. “Tom challenged me to rope the bale 100 times in a row without missing,” remembers Peggy, who as a nurse who’s managed to avoid COVID-19 will not complain about wearing a mask at the WRWC. She shared her California youth with several future Hall of Famers, the likes of Chris Lybbert, and brothers Larry and Tom Ferguson. She makes it look easy.” Jesse, Kathryn, Casey and Mom Peggy.īuetzer loved to breakaway rope in her younger years. “She’s a good example of how a winner acts, and it’s so fun to watch Whitney rope. “Whitney’s so kind and such a really nice person on top of being really good and really wise about roping,” said Buetzer, who lives in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, with her fellow team roper husband, Doyle, and is mom to professional team roper sons Jesse and Casey Stipes and daughter, Kathryn Wade, who teaches ballet in Detroit. Arkansas native Whitney DeSalvo-who also will rope at the WRWC and this summer became the first and only woman to earn the elite status of a #8 team roper-is Buetzer’s ultimate roping-respect gold standard. She’ll head for Melissa Brillhart and heel for Sarah Angelone, and will rope both ends on her 7-year-old dun paint mare, Ginger.
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