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ALVA, Okla. – Team roping is the Johnson family business, and Jayden Johnson is doing his part.

The junior header at Northwestern Oklahoma State University teamed with his heeling partner, Riley Wakefield of O’Neill, Nebraska, to win the team roping championship this past weekend at the Southeastern Oklahoma State University rodeo in Durant.

“It means a lot to get that win,” said Johnson, a seventh-generation rancher near Casper, Wyoming, whose father, Justin, is a Northwestern graduate. “This is what we do, and we work at it every day. Whether we’re roping the dummy or watching film, we’re wo...