Tee woolman biography of william

Champion Team Roper
1956-Living

TeeSquantee Claude Woolman was born December 4, 1956, in Vinita, Oklahoma.  TeeSquantee is Cherokee for “boy of the woods”.  Tee for short, won his first of three, world team roping titles as PRCA Team Roping Rookie of the Year in 1980.  He is one of only five in rodeo history to earn his gold buckle in his rookie year.  

Tee has won 26 trips to the National Finals Rodeo to team rope and appeared 19 times at the National Finals Steer Roping.  That is a total of 45 qualifications.

Tee won the prestigious 10-head average at the NFR five times.  Tee partnered with Leo “The Lion” Camarillo in 1980 and ’82, Bobby Harris in 1987 and ’90, and Cory Petska in 2005 for the NFR Average Crown.  Woolman has a grand total of 28 NFR Go-Round wins.

In the NFSR, Tee is fifth all-time in terms of 42 total National Finals Go-round wins, including 28 at the NFR