Outhier atop her horse Rooster ignited the rodeo arena in Arlington, Texas, as a calf in front of her blazed a path across AT&T Stadium, the same venue where the Dallas Cowboys battle it out for a spot in the Super Bowl each year. She held Rooster’s reins in one hand and spun a rope above her head with the other, moving her wrist in a rhythm she’d been perfecting at youth rodeos across Texas and in her family’s arena at The Waters Ranch in Utopia, a paradisical place in the Texas Hill Country. Her father, rodeo champion Mike Outhier, had been preparing her for this moment at The American’s first-ever women’s breakaway championship in 2019 for most of her life. They practiced together every day. He says he isn’t
