2018 PRCA Media Guide

Professional 2017 Highlights

★ ★ Won PRCA Championship Rodeo (Bismarck, N.D.) ★ ★ Won Horse Heaven Round-Up (Kennewick, Wash.) ★ ★ Won Kitsap Xtreme Bulls Division 2 event (Bremerton, Wash.) ★ ★ Won Sheriff’s PRCA Rodeo (San Bernardino, Calif.) ★ ★ Co-champion at the Mother Lode Round-Up win (Sonora, Calif.) Awards Qualified for bull riding at the National Junior High Finals Rodeo; four-time qualifier for National High School Finals in bull riding Personal 5-11, 140 … single … father, John, pipefitter, lives in Canby, Ore.; mother Lori, dental surgeon assistant … younger brother, Colton, senior at Canby (Ore.) High School, rides bulls, bareback horses and team ropes; older sister, Jessica is a nurse in California; graduated from Canby (Ore.) High School in 2016 … played football, wrestled and was a pole vaulter in high school … enjoys doing outdoor activities when not rodeoing like hunting and fishing … Favorite rodeo is Cheyenne (Wyo.) Frontier Days … Favorite movie is “Lucky 7”… Favorite sports team is the Oakland Raiders … Favorite restaurant is The Wild Hare in Canby (Ore.) … Favorite type of music is 1990s country music … Favorite book“Blue Like Jazz”

Kaleb Driggers

Team roping (heading)

Event:

2nd 7th

2017 world standings place: 2017 NFR standings place:

$120,494 $254,471 $1,259,772

2017 NFR earnings: 2017 earnings: Career earnings:

Dec. 19, 1989, inWaycross, Ga.

Born:

Albany, Ga.

Residence: Joined PRCA: World titles:

2009

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6 (2011-14, 2016-17)

Wrangler NFR qualifications: Tour Finale qualifications:

4 (2011-14)

Professional 2017 Highlights – partner Junior Nogueira ★ ★ Won the Cody (Wyo.) Stampede ★ ★ Won the Clovis (Calif.) Rodeo ★ ★ Won the Snake River Stampede (Nampa, Idaho) ★ ★ Won the Rooftop Rodeo, (Estes Park, Colo.) ★ ★ Won the West Texas (Abilene) Fair & Rodeo ★ ★ Won the Wolf Point (Mont.) Wild Horse Stampede

★ ★ Won the Wrangler Champions Challenge presented by Justin Boots (Redding, Calif.) ★ ★ Won the Wrangler Champions Challenge presented by Justin Boots (Sioux Falls, S.D.) ★ ★ Won the Johnson County Sherriff’s Posse (Cleburne, Texas) ★ ★ Won the Annual Fourth of July Celebration & PRCA Rodeo (Window Rock, Ariz.) ★ ★ Co-champion at the Santa Maria (Calif.) Elks Rodeo Career Highlights

★ ★ 2016: Co-champion in Round 5 and placed in six rounds to rank fourth at the Wrangler NFR. Finished second in the world standings with $230,284. Won the Justin Boots Playoffs (Puyallup, Wash.), the Spanish Fork (Utah) Fiesta Days Rodeo, the St. Paul (Ore.) Rodeo, the Beef Empire Days PRCA Rodeo (Garden City, Kan.), the North Central Rodeo Championship Rodeo (Medford, Wis.), the Eugene (Ore.) Pro Rodeo, the West Texas (Abilene) Fair & Rodeo, the Pasadena (Texas) Livestock Show & Rodeo, the Hugo (Okla.) PRCA Rodeo, the Caribou County Fair & Rodeo (Grace, Idaho), the Cherokee (Iowa) Chamber PRCA Rodeo and the Yellowstone River Round-Up (Billings, Mont.). Co-champion at the Oakley Independence Day Rodeo (Oakley City, Utah), the Strawberry Days Rodeo (Pleasant Grove, Utah), the Magic Valley Stampede (Filer, Idaho) and the Livingston (Mont.) Roundup ★ ★ 2015: Won the San Antonio Stock Show (Texas) & Rodeo, with Travis Woodard. Won the Farm-City Pro Rodeo (Hermiston, Ore.), with Martin Lucero, Montana’s Biggest Weekend (Dillon) and the Cassia County Fair & Rodeo (Burley, Idaho). Finished 33rd in the world standings with $36,529 ★ ★ 2014: (Partner Patrick Smith) Placed in five rounds of the Wrangler NFR. Won the Wrangler Champions Challenge (Scottsdale, Ariz. and Redding, Calif), the Dodge City (Kan.) Roundup Rodeo and the Cowboy Capital of theWorld PRCA Rodeo (Stephenville, Texas). Co-champion at the Red Bluff (Calif.) Round-Up and the Young County Rodeo (Graham, Texas). Finished seventh in the world standings with $139,243 ★ ★ 2013: (Partner Travis Graves) Won Round 9 of the Wrangler NFR with a time of 3.6 seconds and placed in three other rounds; finished fourth in the world standings with $157,729. Won the Cody (Wyo.) Stampede, the Clovis (Calif.) Rodeo, the Dodge City (Kan.) Roundup Rodeo, the Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo (Colorado Springs, Colo.), the

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