“Everyone still remembers the Sawyer Gilbert on the paint horse that had her boots tucked in her pants, probably in a misshaped black hat that when it was 110 degrees out,” Sawyer Gilbert said. “That was me. She’s still in there, we just put a professional spin on it now.”
Gilbert,19, showed the world that the little cowgirl from Buffalo, South Dakota, is in fact gold-buckle quality.
She showed up and made a bold statement at the 2021 National Finals of Breakaway Roping as she was crowned the World Champion Breakaway Roper and the average champion.
“It was my dream before it was even possible for breakaway ropers,” Gilbert said, “to win the average and the world title. Obviously, coming into this, I wanted to win the world, for sure,…