ProRodeo Sports News - June 25, 2021

RAM CIRCUIT SPOTLIGHT GREAT LAKES

The Homebody Circuit system fits team roper Beck’s preferred lifestyle PRCA ProRodeo file photo Team roping heeler J.W. Beck competes at the 2017 RAM National Circuit Finals Rodeo in Kissimmee, Fla. Beck joined the PRCA in 2005 and has earned more than $220,000 in his ProRodeo career.

ABOUT J.W. AGE: 38 HOMETOWN: Moville, Iowa EVENT: Team Roping Heeler CAREER HIGHLIGHT: Five-time circuit champion

BY JOLEE JORDAN, Special to ProRodeo Sports News I f full-time ProRodeo cowboy had a job description, road warrior would likely be as important a required skill as anything needed inside the arena. And that’s the part where team roper J.W. Beck just says he’s out. “I don’t like to travel, I never did,” Beck said. That’s why the PRCA’s circuit system is a great fit for the six-time Great Lakes Circuit Champion heeler who prefers home to hours spent behind the wheel.

In fact, Beck might never have caught the rodeo “addiction” if not for wife, Robin, whom he met when they were teammates at Southeastern Oklahoma State in Durant. Though Beck had made the college team and was around the sport thanks to his father’s work as a pick-up man, rodeoing wasn’t really on his radar. “I was about 10, I guess, and I’d been going with my dad and his crew working cattle,” he said, noting that he wasn’t really helping get the chores done. “My dad (Robert) finally said, ‘You’ve got to start doing something.’”

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