The Thunderbirds became the first team other than the Cowboys this season to finish atop the team standings as they won the Eastern Wyoming College Rodeo in Torrington over the weekend. Casper College finished with 800 points while UW, which had won the first six rodeos of the Central Rocky Mountain Region season, totaled 795.
Team roping brothers Kellan and Carson Johnson were the T-Birds’ only individual winners as the defending College National Finals Rodeo champs continued their impressive season with a two-run time of 13.7 seconds. Fellow team ropers Weston Mills and Braden Brost finished in third place for the T-Birds and Trae Smith teamed with Gillette College’s Bodie Mattson to take fourth.