4.6 seconds. Ironically for the finals, Schieck and Young drew the same calves they had in the semifinals. “I told the other girls during the draw, ‘You’ll place on him, but you won’t win.’ I was wrong,” Schieck said with one of her many friendly laughs. It was her fastest time ever in Frontier Park. “I knew I did good,” said Schieck. “But even when I made the run, I knew it wasn’t decided. There were so many good ropers to follow. I was trying to separate myself from it. Whatever God had planned, just catch” Schieck and Young waited out the rest of the field. After the last roper, an excited Schieck turned to the co-champion.
Macy Young on Boomer posted a matching time of 4.0 seconds to share the win in Cheyenne with Tiffany Schieck. Schieck earned $18,078, while Young pocketed $15,497 at her “Daddy of ‘em All” debut. Young is from Wittmann, Arizona.
It was a big change from the beginning of her season. “This is my first year out here,” Schieck said of competing full-time. “At the beginning of the summer, the plan was roping and having fun.” She began her summer at Greeley, Colorado with $500 in her bank account. Schieck earned $6,000 during the Fourth of July run. Schieck said the initial goal was to finish among the top 65 in the final WPRA world standings. “When we did that, it was 45, here we come,” she said. “My goals kept changing with each little check.” Matt Schieck is a team roper. The two met while competing on the rodeo team at Frank Phillips College in Borger, Texas. He told his wife: “You have got a chance. Let’s focus on you.” Schieck hit a rough spot following Cheyenne. “I hit a mental block,”
“I turned to Macy and said, ‘We just won this one, ’ ” she said. After the presentation of awards and interviews, Schieck found her husband of three years behind the grandstand and the two locked in an emotional embrace. “I just lost it,” Schieck recalled. “Matt, being the good husband, said, ‘I knew you could do it.’ ” The night before the finals, Schieck had an inkling her 2022 might take another turn. “I told Matt, You realize if I win this, I will be in the top 15?” she said. “Then it happened. I had to go back and forth (on making an NFBR run). I didn’t expect to be in this position.”
she said. “I was worrying about what everybody else was doing.” During a stop in Casper, Wyoming – her husband’s hometown – Schieck put some time in the practice pen before heading to Deadwood, South Dakota. “I had to catch some calves,” she said. Schieck stopped checking the world standings and told her biggest fan to do the same. “I told my dad (Ken Niemietz) to stop,” she said with another laugh. “I am having a lot of fun. I’m not even thinking about this year. I’m planning for next year. I hope to do well in the winter and get a bigger push to the Finals.” And if she spoils Susie, that’s OK. “I definitely got my money’s worth out of her.”
Macy Young, second from left, along with her daughter, Hadley and Tiffany Schieck, second from right, shared the breakaway roping title in Cheyenne in 2022.
SEPTEMBER 2022 WPRA NEWS 15
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