2018 PRCA Media Guide

2017 ProRodeo Top Cowboys (continued) Amateur Qualified for the College National Finals Rodeo (Casper, Wyo.) in 2011-13, pairing with Bryce Palmer to finish second in 2012. Finished fifth in 2011 with RobWebb Personal 5-11, 170 … Single … Father, Troy, is a truck driver, and mother, Kelly, is an accountant; older sister, Bailey, and younger sister, Annie, also compete in rodeo … Cousins Riley and Brady Minor have roped together at the Wrangler NFR five times; cousin, Jason, is a PRCA team roping header … Lists his grandfather, three-time NFR steer wrestler Mike Ring, as his rodeo hero, calling him“the best cowboy I have ever seen”… Graduated from Ellensburg (Wash.) High School in 2010 … Favorite rodeo is the Pendleton (Ore.) Round-Up … Favorite movie is“The Cowboys”with John Wayne … Favorite kind of music is country, although he listens to a wide variety of music genres

Riley Minor

Team roping (heading)

Event:

3rd 3rd

2017 world standings place: 2017 NFR standings place:

$123,596 $220,183 $1,291,032 Feb. 7, 1988

2017 NFR earnings: 2017 earnings: Career earnings:

Born:

Ellensburg, Wash.

Residence: Joined PRCA: World titles:

2006

0

8 (2008-09, 2011, 2013-17)

Wrangler NFR qualifications: Tour Finale qualifications:

4 (2008, 2013-15)

3 (2010, 2012-injured/could not compete, 2016)

RNCFR qualifications:

Professional 2017 Highlights – partner Brady Minor ★ ★ Won the PRCA Last Stand Rodeo (Coulee City, Wash.) ★ ★ Won the Medicine Hat (Alberta) Stampede ★ ★ Won the Dallas Sunstrum Memorial Pro Rodeo (Brooks, Alberta) ★ ★ Co-champion at the Greeley (Colo.) Stampede Career Highlights

★ ★ 2016: Won Round 4, co-champion of Round 3, and placed in six rounds to rank third at theWrangler NFR. Finished fourth in the world standings with $220,166. Won the World’s Oldest Rodeo (Prescott, Ariz.), the Cheney (Wash.) Rodeo, the Lynden (Wash.) PRCA Rodeo and the Gem State Stampede (Coeur D Alene, Idaho). Co-champion at the Bonner County Rodeo (Sandpoint, Idaho) ★ ★ 2015: (Partner Brady Minor) Placed in one round at the Wrangler NFR. Won the National Western Stock Show & Rodeo (Denver, Colo.), the PRCA Last Stand Rodeo (Coulee City, Wash.), the American Royal Rodeo (Kansas City, Mo.), the Eastern Oregon Livestock Show (Union), the Poway (Calif.) Rodeo and the Larimer County Fair & Rodeo (Loveland, Colo.). Finished 14th in the world standings with $88,592 ★ ★ 2014: (Partner Brady Minor) Placed in four rounds of the Wrangler NFR. Won the Wrangler Champions Challenge (Amarillo,Texas) and the Norco (Calif.) Mounted Posse Rodeo. Co-champion at the Black Hills Stock Show and Rodeo (Rapid City, S.D.). Finished 11th in the world standings with $115,377 ★ ★ 2013: (Partner Brady Minor)Won Round 1 of theWrangler NFR with a time of 4.6 seconds, tied for the win in Round 3 and placed in two other rounds; finished third in the world standings with $160,503. Won The Last Stand Rodeo (Coulee City, Wash.), the Central Point (Ore.) Wild Rogue ProRodeo and the Magic Valley Stampede (Filer, Idaho). Co-champion at the Amarillo (Texas) Tri-State Fair & Rodeo and The Last Chance Stampede (Helena, Mont.) ★ ★ 2012: (Partner Brady Minor)WonThe Last Stand Rodeo (Coulee City,Wash.), the Lea Park Rodeo (Marwayne, Alberta) and the Spokane (Wash.) Interstate Rodeo; finished 29th in the world standings with $38,155 ★ ★ 2011: (Partner Brady Minor) Tied for fourth place in Round 8 of the Wrangler NFR. Won the Spanish Fork (Utah) Fiesta Days Rodeo, the St. Paul (Ore.) Rodeo, the Central Wyoming Fair & Rodeo (Casper, Wyo.), the NILE ProRodeo (Billings, Mont.), the Poway (Calif.) Rodeo, The Last Stand Rodeo (Coulee City, Wash.), the Guy Weadick Memorial Rodeo (High River, Alberta), the Cheney (Wash.) Rodeo. Co-champion at the Horse Heaven Round-up (Kennewick, Wash.) and the Sundre (Alberta) ProRodeo. Finished 15th in the world standings with $71,267 ★ ★ 2010: (Partner Brady Minor) Won the Parada del Sol Rodeo (Scottsdale, Ariz.) and the Cody (Wyo.) Stampede, Co-champion of the Chief Joseph (Ore.) Days Rodeo. Finished 16th in the world standings with $59,866 ★ ★ 2009: (Partner Brady Minor): Won Round 5 of the Wrangler NFR with a time of 3.8 seconds and placed second in two other rounds; finished 10th in the world standings with $115,693. Won the average and year-end titles at the Dodge Columbia River Circuit Finals Rodeo (Redmond, Ore.).Won the Oakdale (Calif.) Saddle Club Rodeo; the Chief Joseph Days Rodeo, (Joseph, Ore.) and the Williams Lake (British Columbia) Stampede ★ ★ 2008: (Partner Brady Minor) Placed in five of 10 rounds of the Wrangler NFR and finished fifth in the average. Finished eighth in the world standings with earnings of $120,345. Won the NILE ProRodeo (Billings, Mont.), the SandHills Stock Show & Rodeo (Odessa, Texas), the National Western Stock Show & Rodeo (Denver), the St. Paul

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