Innholdsfortegnelse for Jackie Crawford i The Team Roping Journal

Why did you choose roping instead of more traditional women’s events? JC: I didn’t grow up around reining or cutting, but I grew up around rodeo. Being a natural tomboy and liking that type of stuff and having physical strength and ability. I liked that route better. Really in high school I focused on the roping events. High school was where I knew that roping was my thing. Tell us about the greatest horse you’ve ever owned. JC: T-Boy. He’s a winner and he just wins. He’s not fancy, he’s not special. But he’s let me win in every set up and everywhere. His name is DS Sassy Shiner, and he’s out of the same daddy as Jake Long’s Colonel—Zans Diamond Shine. It’s hard to believe, but T-Boy is 15…

To get to a point in your life for some little girl looks up to you, that’s what it’s all about: to have kids influenced by positive people and good people. I hope people consider me to be one. I try to put more back into the sport and evolve it in a positive way and be someone parents can tell their little girls—and even little boys—to look up to. I hope that I’m doing that and representing women and inspiring little girls to find a goal of their own and a dream of their own and know they can achieve it. I really, really, really hope that myself as well as others are blazing a trail that will see a woman in the top 15 in team roping. It’s…