2018 PRCA Media Guide

Cory Petska 2016) … Hobbies include playing basketball, hunting and playing cards … Parents are Ray and Nadine, who own Mesa Sand & Gravel, and he has two younger brothers, Jon and Jeremiah (both PRCA members) … Got started in rodeo at a young age, but didn’t really get serious until he was 14 … He owns and runs his own cattle hoof trimming business, Three Peeks Trimming, in Pueblo, Colo …Wanted to be a chiropractor, but didn’t want to quit rodeo for four years to go to chiropractic school … His mother is a first cousin of bareback riding greats Mark and Marvin Garrett … Favorite movie is“The Last Samurai”… Rodeo idols are Cody Ohl, Trevor Brazile and his dad. Credits J.D. Crouse as being his most instrumental adviser during his rookie year; J.D. gave him his nickname,“Pickles”… Maintains his own website (www.joshpeekrodeo.com)

Team roping (heeling)

Event:

1st 2nd

2017 world standings place: 2017 NFR standings place:

$131,705 $265,417 $2,072,867

2017 NFR earnings: 2017 earnings: Career earnings:

Sept. 3, 1979, in Norman, Okla.

Born:

Marana, Ariz.

Residence: Joined PRCA: World titles:

1998

1 (2017)

14 (2003-11, 2013-17)

Wrangler NFR qualifications: Wrangler NFR average titles: Tour Finale qualifications:

1 (2005)

17

2000, 2003-05

Winter: Summer:

2003-06

2003-06, 2008-09, 2013-15

Championship:

6 (1999, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016-2017)

RNCFR qualifications:

Professional 2017 Highlights – partner Erich Rogers ★ ★ Won the Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show (Fort Worth, Texas) ★ ★ Won the Big Sky ProRodeo Roundup (Great Falls, Mont.) ★ ★ Won the Sheridan WYO Rodeo ★ ★ Won the Hamel (Minn.) Rodeo & Bull Ridin Bonanza ★ ★ Won the Rodeo de Santa Fe (N.M.) ★ ★ Won La Fiesta de los Vaqueros (Tucson, Ariz.)

★ ★ Won the 41st Annual Isanti (Minn.) Firefighters Rodeo ★ ★ Won the Southern New Mexico State Fair (Las Cruces) ★ ★ Co-champion at the Cheyenne (Wyo.) Frontier Days ★ ★ Co-champion at the Lehi (Utah) Roundup Career Highlights

★ ★ 2016: (Partner Erich Rogers) Placed in five rounds to rank fifth at the Wrangler NFR. Finished seventh in the world standings with $190,411. Won the California Rodeo Salinas, the Ellensburg (Wash.) Rodeo and the RAMTurquoise Circuit Finals Rodeo (Las Cruces, N.M.).Won the all-around and team roping at the Brawley (Calif.) Cattle Call Rodeo. Co-champion at the Corn Palace Stampede Rodeo (Mitchell, S.D.) and the Days of the OldWest Rodeo (Delta, Utah) ★ ★ 2015: (Partner Erich Rogers) Placed in five rounds at the Wrangler NFR to rank fifth in the average. Won the RAM Turquoise Circuit Finals Rodeo (Las Cruces, N.M.), the St. Paul (Ore.) Rodeo, the Rancho Mission Viejo Rodeo (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.), the Wrangler Champions Challenge (Scottsdale, Ariz.), the Red Bluff (Calif.) Round-Up, the Hellzapoppin’ Rodeo (Buckeye, Ariz.), the Cave Creek (Ariz.) Fiesta Days Rodeo and the Cedar City (Utah) PRCA Championship Rodeo. Finished ninth in the world standings with $159,712 ★ ★ 2014: (Partner Erich Rogers) Placed in three rounds of theWrangler NFR, including a second-place result in Round 7 to rank seventh in the average. Won the San Antonio (Texas) Stock Show & Rodeo; the Central Wyoming Fair & PRCA Rodeo (Casper); the Amarillo (Texas) Tri-State Fair & Rodeo; the Lewiston (Idaho) Roundup; the Gooding (Idaho) ProRodeo; the Gary Hardt Memorial Rodeo (Payson, Ariz.); the Eugene (Ore.) ProRodeo; Rodeo de Santa Fe (N.M.) and the Wind River PRCA Rodeo Roundup (Riverton, Wyo.). Finished eighth in the world standings with $134,563 ★ ★ 2013: (Partner Erich Rogers) Tied for first place in Round 2 of the Wrangler NFR and placed in one other round to rank 14th in the average. Won the Airdrie (Alberta) ProRodeo; the Lewiston (Idaho) Round-Up; the Omak (Wash.) Stampede; the Mobetta Stampede (Apache, Okla.); the Central Wyoming Fair & PRCA Rodeo (Casper); the Sand Hills Stock Show & Rodeo (Odessa, Texas) and the Gary Hardt Memorial Rodeo (Payson, Ariz.). Finished 10th in the world standings with $119,252. ★ ★ 2012: Finished 33rd in the world standings with $31,017 ★ ★ 2011: (Partner Matt Sherwood) Won Round 1 of the Wrangler NFR with a time of 4.1 seconds and placed in six other rounds to rank sixth in the average. Won the New Mexico State Fair Rodeo (Albuquerque); the Farm-City ProRodeo (Hermiston, Ore.); the Sheridan WYO Rodeo; the War Bonnet Roundup Rodeo (Idaho Falls, Idaho); the Safford (Ariz.) ProRodeo. Won the San Angelo (Texas) Rodeo, with Colby Lovell. Co-champion at the Roots N Boots ProRodeo (Queen Creek, Ariz.). Finished third in the world standings with $170,472.

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