Tour Finale qualifications: 11
Winter: 2002, 2004, 2006
Summer: 2001, 2003-06
Championship: 2004, 2006-07
Education: Tarleton State University (Stephenville,Texas)
Professional
2008 Highlights – partner Kory Koontz
• Won the Heart O’ Texas Fair and Rodeo (Waco)
• Won the San Angelo (Texas) Stock Show & Rodeo
• Won the Kitsap County Fair & Rodeo (Bremerton, Wash.), with Marty Becker
Career Highlights
• 2007 – (Partner Kory Koontz) Won Rounds 7 and 10 at the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo; won titles at the Grand National Rodeo (San Francisco), Clovis (Calif.) Rodeo and the XIT Rodeo and Reunion (Dalhart, Texas) and were co-champions at the Norco (Calif.) Mounted Posse Rodeo; finished sixth in the final world standings with $131,931.
• 2006 – (Partner Kory Koontz) Placed in five out of 10 rounds at the Wrangler NFR, sharing the win in the ninth round with a time of 4.4 seconds. Finished third at the Pace Picante ProRodeo Chute-out (Tulsa, Okla.). Won the Wrangler ProRodeo Tour Round and average titles at the Guymon (Okla.) Pioneer Days Rodeo and at the Laughlin (Nev.) River Stampede. Won the Wrangler ProRodeo Tour Round at the Red Bluff (Calif.) Round-Up and at the Sandhills Stock Show and Rodeo (Odessa, Texas). Won the Fourth of July Youth Celebration and PRCA Pro Rodeo (Window Rock, Ariz.); World’s Oldest Rodeo (Prescott, Ariz.). and the Coleman (Texas) PRCA Rodeo. Co-champion at the Cowboy Capital of the World Pro Rodeo (Stephenville, Texas) and the
Guadalupe County PRCA Rodeo (Seguin, Texas).
• 2005 – (partner Clayton Grant) Won the New Mexico State Fair & Rodeo (Albuquerque), the Days of the Old West Rodeo (Delta, Utah), and the Eastern Oregon Livestock Show & Rodeo (Union, Ore.); won the average title at the Puyallup (Wash.) Rodeo (with Clint Robinson). Finished the year ranked 12th in the world standings with $72,190.
• 2004 – (partner Clay O’Brien Cooper) Finished fourth in the world standings with $136,136 and was 10th in the Wrangler NFR average picking up $40,400; won Somervell County 10th Annual Rodeo (Glen Rose, Texas), RodeoHouston and Clovis (Calif.) Rodeo; won the Wrangler ProRodeo Tour Round at National Western Stock Show & Rodeo (Denver) and the Reno (Nev.) Rodeo; won the Wrangler ProRodeo Tour Round and average titles at Puyallup (Wash.) Rodeo; was a finalist at Pace Picante ProRodeo Chute-out and won the most money of all team ropers with $15,471; was a semifinalist at the Pace Picante ProRodeo Challenge (Omaha, Neb.) and Pace Classic (Dallas); and placed in four of 10 rounds at the Wrangler NFR tying for the win in Round 8 with a 4.0-second run.
• 2003 – Won Oakdale (Calif.) Saddle Club Rodeo, Molalla (Ore.) Buckaroo Rodeo, Deadwood (S.D.) Days of ‘76 Rodeo and Caldwell (Idaho) Night Rodeo with Clay O’Brien Cooper; finished fourth in the world standings with $105,553.
• 2002 – Qualified for team roping at the Olympic Command Performance Rodeo (Farmington, Utah) with Dugan Kelly; won Sheridan (Wyo.) Fair & Rodeo and Caldwell (Idaho) Night Rodeo; ranked ninth in the world standings.
• 2001 – Summer Wrangler ProRodeo Tour team roping points leader (with Dugan Kelly); won (with Dugan Kelly) the California Rodeo Salinas and Dodge City (Kan.) Round-Up; ranked seventh in the world standings.
Amateur
College National Finals Rodeo team roping champion, 1988; was NIRA Southwest Region team roping champion, 1988; qualified for Texas High School Finals Rodeo, 1997.
Personal
6-1, 180...wife, Josie, son, Riley...Hobbies include golf...Father, Kenneth, works in the oil field and mother, Linda, is a secretary; has one sister...Horses are Chief and Big Daddy.
