Cal Poly Update | July 2007 | Students Start Professional Team Ropers Association

Students Organize First Professional Team Roping Competition

SAN LUIS OBISPO -- Chad Nicholson and Dugan Kelley are Cal Poly agriculture students out to make a career from their passion: team roping, a rodeo event. the duo have launched the Professional Team Ropers Association.

Team ropers, often part of rodeos, have never had their own organization to help promote their sport in the way that the Professional Bull Riders Association helped rodeo bull riders.

Nicholson and Kelley hope to build the association into a powerhouse and continue their family ranching tradition -- which for Nicholson includes 2,500 acres of cattle ranches in Cayucos, Cambria and Morro Bay.

Read the SLO Tribune story on Nicholson | See the Tribune Roping Photos

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