5 REBECCA KROPIK
$224,732.50
Rebecca Kropik learned how to rope by herself on a Shetland pony with a 5-gallon bucket, but that didn't stop her from earning six figures in her USTRC career.
“I thought I was Billy Bad Butt roping that bucket,” Kropik laughed. “I roped calves, and then heading steers was easy after roping calves.”
Kropik ran around with Agnes Ohl—Cody Ohl's mama—and they had heck getting guys to enter with them at the ropings back in the day before the USTRC introduced its number system.
“We would go to ropings and not be able to get anybody to rope with us,” Kropik said. “There was a handful of us girls who roped, and it was tough. Back then, you couldn't beg them to rope with you.”
But a lucky encounter with some family friends changed that dramatically.
“I wasn't very good,” Kropik admitted. “When I married (former husband) Richard, he was training horses, so I
