Pat & Sharon O'Toole: Eamon, Team Roping and the University of Wyoming

Our son Eamon is a junior at the University of Wyoming. This fall he fulfilled his dream of team roping on the University's rodeo team. Pat, Dad, Siobhan and I traveled to Cheyenne to take in the last college rodeo of the season. Eamon and his partner Lee caught their steer, but not quite quickly enough. He is really enjoying this experience, and, we trust, applying equal enthusiasm to his studies as a Natural Resource major.

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Eamon and Lee heading into the box
Laramie County Community College Arena
photo by Pat O'Toole

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Eamon and Hickock
photo by Pat O'Toole

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Steer in the lead
photo by Pat O'Toole

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Hot on his heels
photo by Pat O'Toole

I'm glad Eamon isn't a rough stock rider (though he was quite a mutton buster in his day!).
A bareback horse fell on his rider in the chute. The coach and other contestants skillfully freed rider and horse, with no one hurt, but it was a scary few minutes.

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Horse and rider down in the chute
photo by Pat O'Toole

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UW student bull rider
photo by Pat O'Toole

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About Pat & Sharon O'Toole

Pat and Sharon O’Toole are ranchers in the Little Snake River Valley near Savery, Wyoming, right on the Colorado-Wyoming border. They raise cattle, sheep, horses, dogs and children. Pat “immigrated” from Florida in 1970. He attended Colorado State University, where he met Sharon when both worked for the campus newspaper. Sharon grew up on their ranch, where they live and work with her father, their daughter, son and granddaughter (soon to be grandchildren!). Pat is a “water buffalo” and has served in the Wyoming House of Representatives (1986-1992), on the President’s Western Water Policy Review Advisory Commission, and is the current President of the Family Farm Alliance, which advocates for farmers, ranchers and irrigators. Sharon is an author, poet and journalist. She writes extensively on Western issues and is a columnist for “The Shepherd” magazine. Pat and Sharon are the parents of three children: Meghan, 27; Bridget, 26; and Eamon, 20.

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Eamon, Team Roping and the University of Wyoming

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