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Eight-time World Champion Team Roping Header Speed Williams retires
Eight-time World Champion Team Roping Header Speed Williams is retiring from active rodeo competition to focus on a new team roping concept called Speed's Match Roping.
News Briefs!
Eight-time World Champion Team Roping Header Speed Williams retires
Eight-time World Champion Team Roping Header Speed Williams is retiring from active rodeo competition to focus on a new team roping concept called Speed's Match Roping.
Williams, 41, claimed his ProRodeo record eight world titles with heeler Rich Skelton from 1997 to 2004 and surpassed $2 million in career earnings at last December's Wrangler National Finals Rodeo.
Williams made the announcement after selling his horses and listing his ranch in De Leon, Texas, for sale and moving his family to Scottsdale, Ariz.
"After a lot of consideration after the Houston rodeo, I decided this is the right time in my life to make the decision,” Williams said, "even though it happened about seven or eight years earlier than I expected."
Courtesy of The American Roper |
