In Action + Accomplishments

RECENT RUNS

Here are a few clips from Dot Com’s comeback to competition as a head horse.

MAJOR WINS

• 1990 & 1991 CCTRA Junior Champion
• 1995 CCRTA Year End High Money Winner
• 1995 Rope The Rockies Finals Champion and Trailer Winner
• Multiple-Time Rope The Rockies Champion Saddle/Buckle Winner
• 1996 Yost Events Champion Team Roper
• 1999 Ricketts Arena Champion Calf Roper
• 2000 CCTRA Year End High Money Winner
• 2001 Harvest Fest Champion Team Roper
• 2001 USTRC High Plains Regional Finals Runner Up Champion Team Roper
• 2001 USTRC National Finals Runner Up Champion Team Roper
• 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Cody Nite Rodeo Top Five Money Winner
• 2004 Whiskey River Shootout Champion Header
• 2004 USTRC Wyoming Sprint Championships Champion Header
• 2005 Last Chance Team Roping Champion Header
• 2005 Bernie Delancy Benefit Champion Header
• 2006 Wyoming Team Roping Association Champion Header
• 2007 Deer Creek Labor Day Champion Header
• 2008 Lowry Star Classic Champion Header
• 2010 Sands Arena Champion Header
• 2010 Deer Creek Days Open Roping Champion Header
• 2010 Roping for Roy Champion Team Roper
• 2011 Deer Creek Fourth of July Roping Champion Header
• 2017 Deer Creek Days Open Roping Champion Header
• 2017 Nutrena Ultimate Team Roping Fast-Time Winner
• 2018 Crossfire Productions Reserve Champion Header
• 2022 F&F Productions Team Roping Champion Header
• 2023 X-treme Team Roping Fast-Time Winner

OTHER ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Masters of Engineering Management from the South Dakota School of Mines
• Bachelors in Mining Engineering from the South Dakota School of Mines
• Eleven Gold Medals at the Cowboy State Games in Trap Shooting
• One Silver Medal at the Cowboy State Games in Trap Shooting
• Four Wyoming State Trap Shooting Championships
• Selected to the WY State Trap Shooting Team Three Consecutive Years

HORSEMANSHIP

“Dot Com” came to me as a talented, finished, but very mentally fragile head horse. We started winning immediately, but I knew we had the potential to achieve much more. I decided to put roping on the back burner to re-build his mental, physical and emotional foundations, and took things a step further by developing him at liberty.

As horsemen, when we develop our own timing & feel to a level where we can communicate effectively without tools or a physical connection to our horse, it only increases our precision, effectiveness and performance with tools and connection (reins, ropes, our body, etc.).

It’s not so much about what we can do, but who we become in the process, and what it leads to in the future. My goal is always to bring out the most athletic potential in my horses – in a way that makes it a WIN for them as well.

Although I don’t teach liberty training to others, what I personally learned from developing Dot Com in this way and to this degree is part of everything I do with horses.