WPRA barrel racer Tana Poppino is one of five women featured in an article in the February issue of More magazine describing how each made dramatic, successful and often emotional career changes during their lives. The article, titled "They Said I Was Crazy" hit newsstands in late January. MORE's is the only lifestyle magazine for women over 40 and reaches 1.3 million women with each issue.

Poppino's segment of the story, which also includes a photo of her running barrels on her horse Goose, documents her career shift from a corporate marketing executive for an energy company with salary and benefits to becoming a full time professional rodeo athlete faced with extensive travel away from her family and an uncertain income.

In the article, Poppino describes the first years as a barrel racer when her funds were running low and she was considering returning to work. Then her fortunes turned and she began winning. She qualified for the 2006 and 2007 Wrangler National Finals. Then came a huge set back. During the 2007 NFR, her horse Amigo was injured requiring surgery and a year off from competition. Poppino found another partner in Goose, a young grey horse that she is teaching the pro rodeo ropes. In 2009, Poppino suffered a broken ankle at the Reno Rodeo and after trying to continue to compete took time off to let it heal.

This season she is back on the rodeo circuit with both Amigo and Goose. She was recently elected as WPRA Circuit Director for the Prairie Circuit.

The article also profiles the career changes of Kathy Stevens who runs an animal sanctuary, Angela Logan who owns a highly successful food company, Amelia Moran Ceja who owns a shipyard and Laurie Sue Brockway who is currently a minister.

See a preview at: http://www.more.com/2046/11192-tana-popino-rodeo-champion-extreme-reinvention.