{"id":25435,"date":"2021-06-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.tarleton.edu\/news\/virginia-breakaway-roper-traveled-a-long-way-to-tarleton\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T16:43:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T21:43:45","slug":"virginia-breakaway-roper-traveled-a-long-way-to-tarleton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/virginia-breakaway-roper-traveled-a-long-way-to-tarleton\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Breakaway Roper Traveled a Long Way to Tarleton"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Angelone\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Angelone<\/p>\n

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/p>\n

Thursday, June 10, 2021<\/p>\n

STEPHENVILLE, Texas \u2014\u00a0It\u2019s just under 1,400 miles from Cross Junction, Va., to Stephenville, Texas, but that\u2019s a trip Sarah Angelone was willing to make to be on the Tarleton State University rodeo team.<\/p>\n

Sarah, the 2020-21 National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association Southwest Region breakaway roping champion, will represent Tarleton at the College National Finals Rodeo next week in Casper, Wyo.<\/p>\n

She was the national champion high school breakaway roper in 2016, and she came most of the way to Stephenville when she signed to compete at Weatherford College.<\/p>\n

\u201cI moved to Texas right out of high school,\u201d she said. \u201cI went to Weatherford and rodeoed for two years, but I knew I wanted to come here. I had kept up with Tarleton since I was in high school. It was definitely on my radar.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her rodeo trek began early as her father trained to be a roper when Sarah was brand new.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had no horses or rodeo history in the family before my dad decided he wanted to start rodeoing about the time I was born. He bought some horses and had some people help him, teach him to rope, then he taught me and my sister.\u201d<\/p>\n

A junior studying animal production, Sarah hopes to become an equine nutritionist.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s been a goal of mine for a while. I really like helping horses feel their best and be the best they can be.\u201d<\/p>\n

The curriculum at Tarleton is preparing her to reach that goal. \u201cThe program has taken me a long way toward all the information I\u2019ll need to graduate and go on with my career. The faculty does a great job of preparing us to be professionals.\u201d<\/p>\n

Success this season may take some of the sting out of a pandemic-shortened 2020, which saw the cancellation of late-season events and, ultimately, the CNFR.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was a hard year,\u201d Sarah said. \u201cI was sixth in the region, but there were a couple of rodeos left, and I was hoping to finish strong.\u201d<\/p>\n

Obviously, as a CNFR qualifier she had a standout 2020-21 season \u2014 first place at the Tarleton Stampede in April, second at the Vernon College Rodeo in the fall and tied for fourth at the Ranger College Rodeo.<\/p>\n

With that success, she\u2019s packing for a relatively short trip to Casper.<\/p>\n

Only 1,034 miles. Nothing to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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