Dummy Ropin’ fun

CSC’s RLA, Pre-Veterinary club and Night of Country Swing (NOCS) banded together to rope in students to a dummy roping competition, Tuesday.  

Two resident advisors (RA) Lena Aslan, senior of Elizabeth, Colorado, vice president of NOCS and Alex Peepgrass, sophomore of Littleton, Colorado, president of Pre-Vet club put on the competition.  

There were seven participants in the contest and nine total teams, each of the teams had one header and one heeler. 

Using a dummy made of pipes and wheels, the teams had to catch the “head” and “tail” of the moving dummy. The dummy was pushed off by Pre-Vet club member Alexa Shald, sophmore of O’Neill, once each team was ready.  

The teams competed in three rounds, with the bottom teams being eliminated each round. The final round was made up of four teams and determined the first, second and third place winners.  

Colton Jackson, freshman of Box Elder, South Dakota and Ryan Koupal, freshman of Edgemont, South Dakota,  won the competition with a final time of 3.42 seconds. Pete Brown, junior of Oxford and Jackson had a time of 4.05 seconds to get second. The third-place winners Mariah Markus,  sophomore of Loup City and Koupal had a time of 11.38. 

Brown said he joined the competition, “because I wanted to win stuff.” 

Aslan has assisted in the dummy roping for the last four years while this was the first time Peepgrass had helped with the event.  

“I like timing it,” Aslan said. “I’ve been timing it for like the last four years.”