Gunter and VandeStouwe win Charlie 1 Horse for $20K

11-year-old wins Incentive with world champ.

Veteran team roper Megan Gunter and young Chenoa VandeStouwe, fresh out of college, only met each other at the end of the Lazy E Arena after they caught their first steer in Thursday’s Charlie 1 Horse All Girl Team Roping.

The draw team roped all four steers in 33.20 seconds to win the average by a full second over Kenna Francis and former champ Whitney DeSalvo. The victory paid $20,000 cash and the BFI’s traditional prizeline.

Gunter, a switchender from McCammon, Idaho, who winters in Arizona, had previously won the roping a decade ago in Reno. But VandeStouwe, of Inwood, Iowa, never went to Reno. She competed last June at the College National Finals Rodeo for Southwestern Oklahoma State University (clocking a 6.1 in the goat-tying short round) and breakaway roped at the Prairie Circuit Finals last fall. Meanwhile, Gunter was heeling when she won the 2022 Women’s Rodeo World Championships with Kylie McLean.

“I tried to ruin our first steer,” said Gunter. “I was late and that steer ran, so we just stayed alive on that one. But all the steers were good and she heeled them really good.”

VandeStouwe picked up another $2,250 for placing sixth with Lari Dee Guy, and said she was riding a brand-new horse she’d had for three days.

The 9.5 Incentive was also won by a draw team – and what a combination. Virginia native Martha Angelone – a world champion breakaway roper with three-quarters of a million dollars in earnings – drew an extra run in 11-year-old Lattie Lummus of Bloomburg, Texas. The two roped three steers in 33.89 seconds, including one leg penalty, to be fastest of the teams numbered at a 9.5 handicap or lower and earn $7,500.

“She would get the neck and duck and I was like, ‘Heck yeah, that gets them out in front of me,’” said Angelone, who was heeling on her breakaway horse Chick. “I love the BFI. I love that we actually get a chance to rope for that much money in both team roping and breakaway. It’s cool because it’s such a prestigious roping – I’ve been coming for years. There are girls entered now who probably don’t even know it started in Reno.”

Lummus and Angelone were 10^th callback in the short round, but nerves got to the grade-schooler and she missed. Her gold-buckle partner didn’t mind, though, and Angelone went on to earn another $3,400 in the breakaway.

“I’m a jackpotter,” Angelone said. “I go to every jackpot known to man, and the BFI is one of my favorites every year. The steers are always strong, so it’s an actual All-Girl. A lot of all-girl producers run steers in there like it’s a 7 roping, but we can rope the same steers as the big boys. The BFI is one of our truest Open jackpots and more my kind of deal.  It’s one of the things I love about the BFI.”

As for the little girl, she said she’s been dally roping about four years now, and was riding her dad’s mare, Pearl.

“I stole her from him,” said the daughter of Clint and Cheyenne Lummis, adding that she hopes to one day rope for a living. “She puts me right up behind the steer for me to catch the horns.”

Right now, little Lattie says she “trains ponies for a living,” and she’s not kidding. The home-schooled cowgirl recently picked up an English-born Gypsy Vanner pony from some Amish friends, broke it and sold it a few days ago on the Internet for $103,000.

March 29, 2026 by BFI