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2017 ProRodeo Top Cowboys (continued) bareback riding champion, 2006-07. College National Finals Rodeo bareback riding champion, 2009 Personal 6-1, 155 … Parents, Ty andWendy Skiver (mother passed away on Feb. 3, 2017); younger sister, Sydney … Stepfather, Ty, competed in PRCA rodeos as a bareback rider in the early 1990s … R.C. enjoys hunting, fishing, riding colts and drawing … Started his rodeo life by getting on calves at age 5 … He won his first title at age 10 in Northern California Junior Rodeo Association competition … Learned how to handle himself on a ranch when he and his stepdad helped five-time World Champion Bareback Rider Joe Alexander ship cattle from his place in Red Bluff, Calif … Four-time Wrangler NFR qualifier Kelly Wardell has been a major influence in elevating R.C.’s skill level as a roughstock cowboy … Favorite rodeo is California Rodeo Salinas … Favorite food is his mom’s tacos

Orin Larsen

Bareback riding

Event:

8th

2017 world standings place: 2017 NFR standings place:

12th

$71,769 $171,009 $593,203

2017 NFR earnings: 2017 earnings: Career earnings:

April 15, 1991, in Strathmore, Alberta

Born:

Inglis, Manitoba

Residence: Joined PRCA: World titles:

2011

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3 (2015-17)

Wrangler NFR qualifications:

College of Southern Idaho (Twin Falls), associate degree in welding; Oklahoma Panhandle State University (Goodwell), majoring in plant science

Education:

Professional 2017 Highlights

★ ★ Won the Lea County Fair & PRCA Rodeo (Lovington, N.M.) ★ ★ Won the Yellowstone River Round-Up (Billings, Mont.) ★ ★ Won the Colorado (Pueblo) State Fair & Rodeo

★ ★ Won the Wrangler Champions Challenge presented by Justin Boots (Spanish Fork, Utah) ★ ★ Won the Wrangler Champions Challenge presented by Justin Boots (Rapid City, S.D.) ★ ★ Won the Wrangler Champions Challenge presented by Justin Boots (Grand Island, Neb.) ★ ★ Won the Wrangler Champions Challenge presented by Justin Boots (Sioux Falls, S.D.)

★ ★ Won the Dinosaur Roundup Rodeo (Vernal, Utah) ★ ★ Won the Lea Park Rodeo (Marwayne, Alberta) ★ ★ Won the Rocky Pro Rodeo (Rocky Mountain House, Alberta) ★ ★ Won the Pincher Creek (Alberta) Pro Rodeo ★ ★ Won the Arcadia All-Fla Championship Rodeo ★ ★ Co-champion at the Jasper (Alberta) Heritage Rodeo Career Highlights

PRORODEO COWBOYS

★ ★ 2016: Won Round 8 at the Wrangler NFR and placed 11th by placing in five rounds. Finished third in the world standings with $219,373. Won the San Antonio (Texas) Stock Show & Rodeo, the Cheyenne (Wyo.) Frontier Days, the Wrangler Champion Challenge presented by Justin Boots (Spanish Fork, Utah), the Wrangler Champions Challenge presented by Justin Boots (Pueblo, Colo.), the Lewiston (Idaho) Roundup, the Rancho Mission Viejo Rodeo (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.), the Clark County Fair & Rodeo (Logandale, Nev.), the La Fiesta De Los Vaqueros (Tucson, Ariz.), the Leduc (Alberta) Black Gold Rodeo and the IPE and Stampede, (Armstrong, British Columbia). Co-champion at theWrangler Champions Challenge presented by Justin Boots (Kissimmee, Fla.) and the Sikeston (Mo.) Jaycee Bootheel Rodeo ★ ★ 2015: Placed in three rounds at his first Wrangler NFR. Won the Greeley (Colo.) Stampede, The Days of ‘47 Rodeo (Salt Lake City, Utah), the Molalla (Ore.) Buckeroo Rodeo, the Beef Empire Days PRCA Rodeo (Garden City, Kan.), the Magic Valley Stampede (Filer, Idaho) and the Apache (Okla.) Stampede. Finished 12th in the world standings with $114,156 ★ ★ 2014: Won the Sikeston (Mo.) Jaycee Bootheel Rodeo, the Beef Empire Days PRCA Rodeo (Garden City, Kan.) and the Cassia County Fair & Rodeo (Burley, Idaho). Co-champion at theWar Bonnet Roundup Rodeo (Idaho Falls, Idaho), the Texas Stampede (Allen) and the Buffalo Bill Rodeo (North Platte, Neb.). Finished 19th in the world standings with $51,917 ★ ★ 2013: Won the Grand National Rodeo (San Francisco); finished 70th in the world standings with $9,160 ★ ★ 2012: Won the Clovis (Calif.) Rodeo; the Black Hills Roundup (Belle Fourche, S.D.); theWar Bonnet Roundup Rodeo (Idaho Falls, Idaho) and the Brawley (Calif.) Cattle Call Rodeo. Finished 45th in the world standings with $19,362 ★ ★ 2011: Won the Brawley (Calif.) Cattle Call Rodeo; finished seventh in the rookie standings with earnings of $6,878

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