Event: Bareback riding
Born: June 3, 1976, in Portland, Ore.
Residence: Culver, Ore.
Joined PRCA: 1996
World titles: 3 (2002, 2007, 2009)
Wrangler NFR qualifications: 9 (2001-09)
Career earnings: $1,660,977
2009 World standings place: 1st
2009 Wrangler NFR place: 1st
2009 Wrangler NFR earnings: $139,880
2009 earnings: $310,219
Tour Finale titles: 2 (summer 2000 & 2002)
Tour Finale qualifications: 19
Pace Chute-out: 2001, 2004-06
Caldwell Round: 2007-08
Puyallup Round: 2007-08
Summer Finale: 2000-02, 2004, 2007-08
Championship: 2004-08
Professional
2010 Highlights
- Won the Sheridan (Wyo.) Rodeo.
- Won a total of $22,091 over Cowboy Christmas and was the top earner among all roughstock cowboys and was second overall behind Trevor Brazile with $24,253.
- Won the average at the Ponoka (Alberta) Stampede.
- Co-champion at the Crooked River Round-Up (Prineville, Ore.)
2009 Highlights
- Won his third world title and set a bareback riding single-season earnings record with a $310,219 total. Won the average with total of 847 points on 10 head.
- PRCA's biggest money winner over Cowboy Christmas with $29,926.
- Won the Columbia River Circuit Finals (Redmond, Ore.) average title and the year-end all-around title. Qualified for DNCFR in bareback riding.
- Won the Southwestern International PRCA Rodeo (El Paso, Texas).
- Co-champion at the North Idaho Fair & Rodeo (Coeur D'Alene).
- Won the Sikeston (Mo.) Jaycee Bootheel Rodeo.
- Won the Big Sky Pro Rodeo Round Up (Great Falls, Mont.).
- Won the Medicine Hat (Alberta) Stampede.
- Won the Greeley (Colo.) Independence Stampede.
- Co-champion at the Ponoka (Alberta) Stampede.
- Won the West of the Pecos (Texas) Rodeo.
- Won the Wild Rogue ProRodeo (Central Point, Ore.).
- Won the average title at the Fort Worth (Texas) Stock Show and Rodeo.
Career Highlights
2008 - Won four out of 10 rounds at the 50th Wrangler NFR tying the arena record twice - once in the 5th round aboard Classic Pro Rodeo's Big Tex and the second in the 7th round on Big Bend Rodeo's Spring Fling; Finished the year ranked 3rd with $205,592, tied for 7th at the Wrangler NFR and won $80,950; Won the Othello (Wash.) Pro Rodeo, the Canby (Ore.) Rodeo, the Moses Lake (Wash.) Roundup, the Sikeston (Mo.) Jaycee Bootheel Rodeo, the Chief Joseph (Ore.) Days Rodeo, the Reno (Nev.) Rodeo, the Cloverdale Fair and Rodeo (Surrey, B.C.), and the Laughlin (Nev.) River Stampede; was co-champion at the West of the Pecos (Texas) Rodeo and the Sandhills Stock Show and Rodeo (Odessa, Texas).
2007– Won the 2007 PRCA World Champion Bareback Riding Title with $207,184. Finished tied for fourth in the average at the Wrangler NFR; finished the year as the regular-season leader with $152,184 setting a new earnings record prior to the Wrangler NFR in bareback riding; crossed the $1 million mark in career earnings in March following RodeoHouston; won the Columbia River Circuit Finals (Redmond, Ore.), the Ellensburg (Wash.) Rodeo, the IPE & Stampede (Armstrong, B.C.)-qualifies for Canadian Finals for first time, the Santiam Canyon Stampede (Sublimity, Ore.), the Eugene (Ore.) Pro Rodeo, the Crooked River Roundup (Prineville, Ore.), the SandHills Stock Show and Rodeo (Odessa, Texas) and the Championship round and the shoot-out $50,000 round at RodeoHouston; was co-champion at the Snake River Stampede (Nampa, Idaho), the West of the Pecos (Texas) Rodeo and the Daines Ranch Rodeo (Innisfail, Alberta); was co-champion at the Founder Day Rodeo (Tonasket, Wash.) in the bareback riding, finished fourth in the team roping with Brandon Beers and won the all-around title.
2006– Placed in eight out of 10 rounds at the Wrangler NFR, winning the seventh round with a score of 84.5 points and tied for the win in 10th round with a score of 85.5 points; Finished the year ranked second in the world with $181,173. Was second in the average at the Wrangler NFR and won $102,935 during the 10-day event; won the average title at the Dodge Columbia River Circuit Finals Rodeo (Redmond, Ore.); was co-champion at the NILE Pro Rodeo (Billings, Mont.); won the Wild Rouge Pro Rodeo (Central Point, Ore.), the Northwest Montana Fair & Rodeo (Kalispell, Mont.), the Crooked River Roundup (Prineville, Ore.), the Sisters (Ore.) Rodeo, the Klamath Falls Great Northwest Pro Rodeo (Klamath Falls, Ore.), the Auburn (Calif.) Wild West Stampede, the Wrangler ProRodeo Tour Round at the Red Bluff (Calif.) Round-Up, the Grand National Rodeo (San Francisco, Calif.) and the SW District Livestock Show & Rodeo (Lake Charles, La.).
2005 – Won the all-around title at the Othello (Wash.) Rodeo; won the bareback riding title at the Sikeston (Mo.) Jaycee Bootheel Rodeo, the Thunder Mountain ProRodeo (Longview, Wash.), the Chief Joseph Days Rodeo (Joseph, Ore.), the Cheney (Wash.) Rodeo, the Sisters (Ore.) Rodeo, the Salem (Ore.) Rodeo, the Eastern Oregon Livestock Show and Rodeo (Union, Ore.), the Auburn Wild West Stampede (Auburn, Calif.), the Wrangler ProRodeo Tour Round and average titles at San Angelo (Texas) Stock Show and Rodeo; was co-champion at the Founders Day Rodeo (Tonasket, Wash.) and the Silver Spur Rodeo (Yakima, Wash.). Finished the year ranked 12th in the world with $114,069.
2004 – Finished ninth in the world standings with $118,901 and was fifth in the Wrangler NFR after picking up $29,992; Won the Buc Days ProRodeo (Corpus Christi, Texas) and Ponoka (Alberta) Stampede; semifinalist at Pace Picante ProRodeo Chute-out (Las Vegas); won Tour round and average titles at the Puyallup (Wash.) Rodeo; finished fourth at the Pace Picante ProRodeo Challenge (Omaha, Neb.) and Pace Picante ProRodeo Classic (Dallas).
2003 – Won the National Western Stock Show & Rodeo (Denver) and Clackamas County Fair & Rodeo (Canby, Ore); was co-champion in Round 4 with an 88.5-point ride on Bar T Rodeo’s Calamity Jane at the Wrangler NFR; broke his collarbone and dislocated his shoulder at RodeoHouston and missed most of the spring and early summer; finished ninth in the world standings with $103,802.
2002 – World champion bareback rider; regular-season earnings leader; won the U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Co. Cup Finale (Dallas) (now called the Pace Picante ProRodeo Classic) and Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo (Colorado Springs, Colo.); co-champion at Central Wyoming Fair & Rodeo (Casper) and Clackamas County Fair & Rodeo (Canby, Ore.).
2001 – World champion runner-up; co-champion at NILE Rodeo (Billings, Mont.); won Tri-State Rodeo (Fort Madison, Iowa) and Red Bluff (Calif.) Round-Up; Columbia River Circuit champion.
2000 – Won the Columbia Circuit Finals rodeo; co-champion at Grand National Rodeo (San Francisco) and won Copenhagen Cup Finale (Mesquite, Texas) (now called the Pace Picante ProRodeo Challenge).
Personal
6-0, 175...Wife, Kate; sons, Charlie and Trey; daughter, Laura...Hobbies include horse training, roping and fishing…Travels with Jason Havens, Ryan Gray and Brian Bain.
