2018 PRCA Media Guide

Awards PRCA Resistol Steer Wrestling Rookie of the Year, 2011 Amateur Montana high school all-around champion, 2008 and 2009; National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association Big Sky Region steer wrestling champion, 2010 Personal 6-5, 240 … Single … Father, Sid, is a vet and a gym teacher, and mother, Janet, is a barrel horse trainer (she competed in barrel racing for Montana State); brother, Josh … Graduated from Capitol High School (Helena, Mont.) in 2009; played center on the basketball team and was named first-team all-state as a senior … Only started bulldogging as a high school junior …Team roped in college with his cousin Ben Ayre … Favorite rodeo is the Ponoka (Alberta) Stampede

Jason Evans

Steer roping, tie-down roping

Events:

5th

2017 world standings place: 2017 NFSR standings place:

11th

$13,891 $98,047 $798,498

2017 NFSR earnings:

2017 earnings: Career earnings:

Jan. 21, 1970, in Cody, Wyo.

Born:

Huntsville, Texas

Residence: Joined PRCA: World titles:

1992

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Wrangler NFR qualifications:

6 (1996-97, 2002, 2014, 2016-17)

NFSR qualifications:

SamHouston State University (Huntsville,Texas), bachelor’s degree in accounting.

Education:

Professional 2017 Highlights ★ ★ Won the all-around at Sheridan WYO Rodeo ★ ★ Won the Parker County Sheriff’s Posse Frontier Days and PRCA Rodeo (Weatherford, Texas)

★ ★ Won the Sonora (Texas) Outlaw Pro Rodeo ★ ★ Won the Yuma (Colo.) County Fair & Rodeo ★ ★ Won the Dick Stull Memorial Rodeo (Sterling, Colo.) ★ ★ Co-champion at the Fallon County Fair & Rodeo (Baker, Mont.) Career Highlights

★ ★ 2016: Won Round 7 and placed in seven rounds to rank fourth at the ClemMcSpadden National Finals Steer Roping. Finished fourth in the world standings with $105,275. Won the Deadwood (S.D.) Days of 76 Rodeo and Rodeo Corpus Christi (Texas) ★ ★ 2015: Won the National Circuit Finals Steer Roping (Torrington, Wyo.). Finished 16th in the world standings with $36,270 ★ ★ 2014: Won Round 4 of the ClemMcSpadden National Finals Steer Roping (Mulvane, Kan.) with a time of 9.5 seconds and placed in three other rounds on his way to a fourth-place finish in the average and sixth place in the world standings with $55,739. Won the Pendleton (Ore.) Round-Up. ★ ★ 2013: Won the Deadwood (S.D.) Days of ‘76 and the Dodge City (Kan.) Roundup Rodeo; finished 21st in the world standings with $21,119 ★ ★ 2012: Finished 90th in the world standings with $2,004 ★ ★ 2011: Finished 66th in the world standings with $3,075 ★ ★ 2010: Finished 75th in the world standings with $2,909 ★ ★ 2007: Won the Lea County Fair & Rodeo (Lovington, N.M.); finished 16th in the world standings with $20,118 ★ ★ 2003: Finished 17th in the world steer roping standings with $18,586 ★ ★ 2002: Qualified for third NFSR; won all-around and tie-down roping titles at Sandhills Stock Show& Rodeo (Odessa, Texas) ★ ★ 1997: Qualified for second NFSR ★ ★ 1996: Qualified for his first NFSR; Texas Circuit Finals Steer Roping qualifier Amateur College National Finals Rodeo tie-down roping champion, 1990; Montana high school steer wrestling champion, 1988; state team roping champion, 1987 Personal 6-1, 190 …Wife, April, is a school teacher; daughters, Paisley and Hartley; son, Canyon … Operates TEX-INS Insurance and Evans Claims Service in Huntsville, Texas … Hobbies include football, basketball and flying

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