Chadron State College Athletics

A graduate of Hyannis High School, Becker was an outstanding breakaway roper for the Chadron State rodeo team in the mid-1980s. She won the Central Rocky Mountain Region’s breakaway championship in both 1984 and 1986 and finished fourth in the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association standings as a senior in 1986. She placed first or second in her pet event at five of the 10 rodeos in the region her senior year, and won first at three consecutive rodeos near the end of the season. Altogether, she won the breakaway roping at seven rodeos during her career. As a freshman in 1982-83, she was a member of the Chadron State team that won the regional title and finished fifth in the nation following the national rodeo. She operates a landscaping business in Riverton, Wyo.