2018 PRCA Media Guide

★ ★ Won the Lake County Round-up (Lakeview, Ore.) ★ ★ Co-champion at the Old Fort Days Rodeo (Fort Smith, Ark.) Career Highlights ★ ★ 2016: Finished 68th in the world standings with $15,435. Won the Inter-State Rodeo (Coffeyville, Kan.) and the Eureka (Kan.) PRCA Rodeo ★ ★ 2015: Won theWill Rogers Stampede (Claremore, Okla.) and theWichita Falls (Texas) PRCA Rodeo, April 25. Finished 28th in the world standings with $44,061 ★ ★ 2014: Won the Kansas Star Rodeo (Mulvane, Kan.); the Western Fest Stampede Rodeo (Granite Falls, Minn.); the Isanti (Minn.) Firefighters Rodeo; the Harrison (Ark.) PRCA Rodeo and the Mobetta Stampede (Apache, Okla.). Co-champion at the Tops in Texas (Jacksonville). Finished 30th in the world standings with $37,083 Personal 5-11, 150 …Wife, Tess, works at a bank … Father, Gaylon Murray, works on a ranch, and mother, Latisha Henderson, is a teacher; brothers, Kyle and Guston; sister, Julie … Other family in rodeo include his grandfather, who rode bulls in the 1960s and 70s … Favorite movie is Lonesome Dove …Works for a ranch in Oklahoma … Favorite sports teams are Oklahoma Sooners football and the Denver Broncos … Got his start in rodeo when older brother Kyle snuck off and began rodeoing and then Guthrie followed in his footsteps … Favorite music is Texas country … Favorite meal is steak and mashed potatoes … Rodeo idol is Michael Gaffney

Junior Nogueira

Team roping (heeler)

Event:

5th (AA), 2nd (TR), 143rd (TD)

2017 world standings place: 2017 NFR standings place:

7th

$120,494 $256,923 $838,499

2017 NFR earnings: 2017 earnings: Career earnings:

Sept. 6, 1990, in Presidente Prudente, Brazil

Born:

Scottsdale, Ariz.

Residence: Joined PRCA: World titles:

2014 1 (AA)

4 (2014-17)

Wrangler NFR qualifications: Tour Finale qualifications:

2

Professional 2017 Highlights – partner Kaleb Driggers ★ ★ 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. Became the first Brazilian world champion in PRCA history by winning the All-Around world title with $231,728. Finished second in team roping with $230,284 and 221st in tie-down roping with $3,549. Won the Justin Boots Playoffs (Puyallup, Wash.).Won 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 Fair & Rodeo(Abilene), the Hugo (Okla.) PRCA Rodeo, the Cherokee (Iowa) Chamber PRCA Rodeo, and the Caribou County Fair & Rodeo (Grace, Idaho). Won the all-around and team roping at theYellowstone River Round-Up (Billings, Mont.) and the all-around and team roping at the Pasadena (Texas) Livestock Show & Rodeo. Won the all-around at the American Royal Rodeo (Kansas City, Mo.). Co-champion at the Oakley Independence Day Rodeo (Oakley City, Utah), the Magic Valley Stampede (Filer, Idaho), the Strawberry Days Rodeo (Pleasant Grove, Utah) and the Livingston (Mont.) Roundup ★ ★ 2015: Placed in eight rounds at theWrangler NFR with partner JoJo LeMond. (Partner Jake Barnes) Won the Chief Joseph (Ore.) Days, the Cody (Wyo.) Stampede Champions Challenge and the Ramona (Calif.) Rodeo. Finished fourth in the world standings with $198,737 ★ ★ 2014: (Partner Jake Barnes) First Brazilian team roper to qualify for the Wrangler NFR; placed in six rounds and finished second in the average to jump from 12th to seventh in the final world standings with $136,036. Won the Spanish Fork (Utah) Fiesta Days Rodeo; the Clark County Fair & Rodeo (Logandale, Nev.); the Oakley Independence Day Rodeo (Oakley City, Utah); the Cave Creek (Ariz.) Fiesta Days Rodeo; the Crooked River Roundup (Prineville, Ore.); the Springville (Calif.) Sierra Rodeo

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