Editing Team roping (section)

{{Short description|Competitive rodeo team sport}}
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[[Image:TeamRopingTucson.jpg|thumb|Team roping consists of two ropers; here, the header has roped the steer and is setting up to allow the heeler to rope the back legs of the steer.]]
[[File:Steer Roping at the Kentucky State fair QUarter Horse show (2751833934).jpg|thumb|Team ropers in an indoor competition]]

'''Team roping''' also known as '''heading and heeling''' is a [[rodeo]] event that features a [[Cattle#Terminology|steer]] (typically a [[Corriente]]) and two [[equestrianism|mounted riders]]. The first roper is referred to as the "header", the person who ropes the front of the steer, usually around the horns, but it is also legal for the rope to go around the neck, or go around one horn and the nose resulting in what they call a "half head". Once the steer is caught by one of the three legal head catches, the header must dally (wrap the rope around the rubber covered saddle horn) and use their horse to turn the steer to the left.

The second roper is the "heeler", who ropes the steer by its hind feet after the "header" has turned the steer, with a five-second penalty assessed to the end time if only one leg is caught. Team roping is the only rodeo event where men and women compete equally together in professionally sanctioned competition, in both single-gender or mixed-gender teams.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tallinthesaddle2.biz/pdf/walltext.pdf |title=Tall in the Saddle – Exhibition Wall Text |access-date=2010-12-13 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706145840/http://www.tallinthesaddle2.biz/pdf/walltext.pdf |archive-date=2011-07-06 |website=tallinthesaddle2.biz}}</ref>