“I don’t know what I did to deserve such a great horse. I owe everything to him,” she said.
She made it back to Arlington in 2026, too, one of the 15 cowgirls in The American’s $2 million final after placing second at the West regional with a 1.80 in the finals.
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Rookie of the Year, 2021
In 2021 she became the first Women’s Professional Rodeo Association Resistol Rookie of the Year in breakaway roping. The next summer she left after the College National Finals Rodeo in June and hauled with Taylor Hanchey, Tacy Webb and Beau Peterson.
“Those girls are so fun and uplifting. I wasn’t worried about doing bad or getting down myself because they would all be happy and light after each run, no matter what,” she said.
“In the breakaway, it’s anybody’s game, any day. It’s a fast-changing event and nobody is going to win every rodeo and every roping there is,” she said.
On the Bubble in 2023
She opened 2023 at the Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo, placing second in both rounds of her bracket in 2.6 and 2.4 to advance at the top of it. At San Antonio she won her semifinal in 1.8 for $2,500 and led the qualifiers into the finals with $4,250.
In June she won Santa Ynez, California, in 2.1 for $3,158 and stood No. 15 in the world. She roped at the NFR Open in July for the Texas Circuit.
She was No. 17 with $52,120 after Labor Day and split the win at Amarillo, Texas, in 2.0 for $3,409 on Sept. 23. With one weekend left she needed $6,412 to catch Erin Johnson for the last spot, and the 2023 NFBR went on without her.
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Salt Lake City, July 2024
In 2024 she was knocking on the door of the National Finals Breakaway Roping when her season ended in a parking lot. On July 18, at the Days of ’47 Rodeo in Salt Lake City, her mare came over backwards on her on the asphalt. Outhier broke her collarbone, fractured ribs, collapsed a lung and lacerated her liver. She stayed conscious, and other ropers got to her fast, Marty Yates and ICU nurse Tacy Webb among them. She was done for the year.
The mare was Lets Boogie Wildcard—“Eva”—out of the same LA Waters Quarter Horses program. Eva was not hurt.
“I took her with us on the road last year and started seasoning her more. She is actually who I had my accident on in Salt Lake City back in 2024. She is all good from that, didn’t get hurt—she’s been an awesome asset to my team,” Outhier said this June.
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A Joker in 2025
She was back on the road in 2025. In May, Joe Beaver drafted her for his Jokers team at Kid Rock’s Rock N Rodeo at AT&T Stadium, and the Jokers beat Cody Ohl’s Convoy in the championship round for $500,000, or $27,778 per team member.
“When Joe called and said, ‘You’re a Joker,’ I was pumped,” Outhier said. “It’s so cool getting to rope there [at AT&T Stadium]; there’s a great atmosphere in that building.”
She rode Rooster in Arlington. That summer she split the second round at the first Calgary Stampede breakaway with Timber Allenbrand in 2.5 for $6,250, and in September she split the win at Tyler, Texas, in 2.0 for $2,956.
“I’ve rode him virtually everywhere for the last 12 years which is also a testament that one horse can stay that good for the same person for that long and taught me how to win,” she told us that August.
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Big Spring, Reno and Bremerton
She opened the 2026 summer run by winning Big Spring, Texas, in 2.0 for $3,704 on Eva. The fix was in the box.
“I think a lot of my troubles at these rodeos have come from going too early and pulling across the line. I feel like lately, I’ve been scoring a lot better so that I am able to hit the barrier at a more flat-out run. It has let me use my rope a little more and get more out of my horse so that I’m able to catch up to the calf in those quicker spots.”
Two weeks later she won the Reno, Nevada, average at 8.2 on three head, all three runs on Eva. She was 2.5 in the first round and 2.8 for second in the short round, and the trip was worth $11,726.
“It was my first time to ever do good there, honestly. I think it was my first time to even make the perfs in the second round too.”
Reno’s setup runs long. She went into the short round to protect her place in the average.
“I was just wanting to lay the barrier back a little more,” she said of the short go. “When I roped in 2.8, I honestly did not expect to win it. I knew the girls behind me would probably be a little quicker, but it ended up working out in my favor.”
After Reno she flew to Greeley, Colorado, and roped on Rooster there, giving Eva a lighter week before the Fourth of July.
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Then came a $12,702 week at the turn of August. She won Preston, Idaho, outright in 2.1 for $5,866, then won the Dodge City, Kansas, average at 8.6 on three head. With a third in the first round and a third in the short round, Dodge City was worth $6,836.
In late August she split Bremerton, Washington, with Danielle Lowman in 1.9 for $6,248 each. She closed the regular season at home in Texas, winning Tyler in 2.0 for $3,281 and New Braunfels in 2.7 for $1,363.
Where She Stands
Reno moved Outhier from No. 23 to a projected No. 13 in the WPRA world standings, and the Preston and Dodge City week put her at a projected No. 8 with $90,183. She finished the 2026 regular season No. 11 with $111,252 and qualified for her first National Finals Breakaway Roping, two summers after Salt Lake City.
“It’s definitely exciting anytime you break into the top 15. But yeah—just keeping the same mindset—taking one calf at a time,” she said after Reno.
