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Blessings Are Where You Find Them
| | By: Melinda Clements | # 12 Shoot Out -- USTRC National Finals Of Team Roping
Oklahoma State Fairgrounds -- Oklahoma City, OK
Tuesday October 28, 2008
By Melinda Clements
Blessings Are Where You Find Them
Tyson Campidilli feels he is a very blessed man. Things have happened to him in the past few days that have made him a bit reflective. There are several things, when taken into consideration, indicate that perhaps to Campidilli’s way of thinking blessings are where you find them and one only needs to realize and accept them for what they are.
Campidilli and his partner, Nathan Enyart, know the 2008 USTRC National Finals of Team Roping has been a blessing for them. Like all team ropers the pair came to the USTRC Finals hoping to win some. After all, everyone enters with the hope of winning something. However, when the team came back as the high call back team of the #12 Shoot Out at the USTRC Finals it was a accomplishment almost beyond comprehension.
“I was so nervous my legs were shaking,” Enyart said excitedly. “I was trying not to think about anything. We had talked and I knew I had to rope aggressive. I just wanted to make sure I got it right.”
“I was very nervous also,” Campidilli collaborated. “This was the most money I had ever roped for and it is enough to make you really nervous.”
Campidilli and Enyart had watched the tenth high call team post a 7.34 in the short go to take the lead. They had also watched the next eight teams run and knew they had to stay aggressive and had to be solid on the run. The ropers needed a 9.19 on their short go round steer to take the lead away from Shane Bohach and Teejay Brown.
“We had discussed it and if I had the shot I needed to take it,” Enyart said, “If not I just needed to get it down.”
When the team posted a time of 7.85 on their short round steer it was as if the weight of the world had just been lifted off of their shoulders. The pair won the #12 Shoot Out at the USTRC National Finals of Team Roping to put $95,600 in their bank account. The prize line was phenomenal and included Martin Championship Trophy Saddles, Gist Championship Gold Buckles, Tony Lama Full Quill Ostrich Boots and Collectors Western Horseman Framed Prints.
“It is the most money I have ever won,” Campidilli said. “I am so blessed. I have a beautiful wife, seven month old twins and the most awesome head horse and I just thank the Lord for this win here at the Finals.”
Enyart, an eighteen year old college student, couldn’t believe it.
“It is awesome,” he said. “This is most money I have ever won. I want to buy a trailer and the rest is going into the bank.”
As Campidilli reflected a bit on his win he realized there were many blessings involved in his win in the #12 Shoot Out. He has been roping since he was a kid and he knows how important horsemanship is in the sport of team roping. Campidilli’s seven year old head horse, Willie, has been instrumental in his quest to be a good team roper.
“I bought this horse from my in laws and he was an outlaw,” Campidilli explained. “He was headed to the horse sale when I got him. He will still try and buck you off. But he is awesome. He has lots of ability and lots of speed.”
Perhaps what Willie needed was someone like Campidilli to believe in him. Sometime champions are made just because someone had a little faith. Campidilli certainly has faith in what Willie can do.
“I’ve had the horse three years and they don’t get any better than this,” Campidilli explained. “I just give all the glory to God for my family, my horse, my partner and this win. There are just blessings surrounding me.”
Campidilli hopes he and his wife can buy a house. When he called home and told his wife she screamed and couldn’t believe it. It suddenly made having to stay home alone with twins worthwhile and it was one phone call Campidilli couldn’t wait to make.
It seems there are little blessings waiting to appear at the most opportune time. Sometimes you may have to look for them. At other times they seem to light about your shoulders like a butterfly. Both Campidilli and Enyart know they were in the right place and the right time. They roped aggressive and never gave up. They had come to the USTRC National Finals of Team Roping to have a good time and like the butterfly the blessings fluttered about them. Blessings are, indeed, where you find them.
Posted: Nov.1, 2008 |
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