2023 TEAM ROPING CHAMPIONS
TYLER WADE & WESLEY THORP
TEAM ROPERS WADE & THORP WIN HEADER, HEELER TITLES Las Vegas, Nevada — An all business, efficient run in Round 10 was all that separated team ropers – header Tyler Wade and heeler Wesley Thorp – from coveted world championships.
Well, the duo clocked a 5.4-second time and that left them third in the average with a $50,517 check, catapulting them to capture gold buckles. Wade was making his sixth NFR appearance and finished a career-best eighth in the 2022 world standings. That’s not the case anymore. Wade finished with $308,057 in the world standings and Thorp earned $325,284.
“I don’t know yet. It hasn’t sunk in. I told Thorp I don’t know if I’m a world champion or not. I know he is cause he already has one. I just let him guide me,” Wade said. “I think the whole time we weren’t trying to do anything different other than give ourselves a chance. Take the risk we needed to take when we needed to take them, and it could not have worked out better in our favor. Every time we needed to step up in the round and make a run, we drew the best steer. It felt like God’s timing more than anything.” Thorp won his lone world championship in 2019.
“This is unbelievable because all I can think about are the times you are down throughout the year, and you have to find something to pick you up,” Thorp said. “How do you get that low to this spot right here. This is everything when you get here because it makes you realize that you just have to be ready for any opportunity that comes.”
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