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2017 ProRodeo Top Cowboys (continued) co-champion at the Austin County Fair & Rodeo (Bellville,Texas).Won the team roping at the Belton (Texas) Chamber 4th of July Celebration & Pro Rodeo, with Joel Bach. Earned $31,532 to set a PRCA career record for money earned on a permit with a two-year total of $60,985 ★ ★ 2011: Won the all-around, team roping and tie-down roping at the Kendall County PRCA Rodeo (Boerne, Texas); the all-around and tie-down roping at the Guadalupe County Fair & PRCA Rodeo (Seguin,Texas) and the Mesquite (Texas) ProRodeo Series on Aug. 19; the all-around and the team roping (with Jud Nowotny) at the Rio Grande Valley Exposition Rodeo (Mercedes,Texas); the all-around at the Rusk County PRCA Rodeo (Henderson,Texas); the Pasadena (Texas) Livestock Show & Rodeo and the Comal County Fair & Rodeo (New Braunfels, Texas). Earned $29,453 on his permit, the eighth-highest total in history for a permit holder, and finished second to Trevor Brazile in the Texas Circuit all-around standings Amateur College National Finals Rodeo all-around champion and tie-down roping reserve champion while at Wharton County (Texas) Junior College, 2010. Texas high school tie-down roping champion, 2008, and reserve champion that year at the National High School Finals Rodeo Personal 6-0, 155 …Wife, Brenna (married Nov. 2, 2013), is an accountant; son, Cru … Father, Randy Smidt, works at a feed lot in Gonzales, Texas, and mother, Denise, is a home health nurse; he has one older brother, Aaron … Enjoys hunting … Earned his degree in agricultural business from Sam Houston State University in December 2012 … Graduated from Yorktown (Texas) High School in 2008

Clay Smith

Team roping (heading), tie-down roping

Events:

5th 9th

2017 world standings place: 2017 NFR standings place:

$84,462 $197,556 $422,005

2017 NFR earnings: 2017 earnings: Career earnings:

April 26, 1991, in Texarkana, Texas

Born:

Broken Bow, Okla.

Residence: Joined PRCA: World titles:

2013

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3 (2015-17)

Wrangler NFR qualifications: Tour Finale qualifications:

1 (2015)

Professional 2017 Highlights – partner Paul Eaves ★ ★ Won Walla Walla (Wash.) Frontier Days ★ ★ Won the Spanish Fork (Utah) Fiesta Days Rodeo ★ ★ Won the Rancho Mission Viejo Rodeo (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.) ★ ★ Won the Black Hills Roundup (Belle Fourche, S.D.) ★ ★ Won the Rio Grande Valley Livestock Show & Rodeo (Mercedes, Texas) ★ ★ Won Laramie (Wyo.) Jubilee Days ★ ★ Won the Mineral Wells (Texas) Rodeo ★ ★ Won the Wrangler Champions Challenge presented by Justin Boots (Rapid City, S.D.) ★ ★ Won the Beef Empire Days PRCA Rodeo (Garden City, Kan.) ★ ★ Won the tie-down roping at the Kitsap Stampede (Bremerton, Wash.) ★ ★ Won the all-around and team roping at the Rose City Roundup (Tyler, Texas) ★ ★ Won the all-around at the Comal County Fair & Rodeo (New Braunfels, Texas) ★ ★ Won the all-around at the Yellowstone River Round-Up (Billings, Mont.)

PRORODEO COWBOYS

★ ★ Won the all-around at the Goliad (Texas) County Fair PRCA Rodeo ★ ★ Won the all-around at the PRCA Rose City Round-Up (Tyler, Texas)

★ ★ Co-champion at the Caldwell (Idaho) Night Rodeo ★ ★ Co-champion at the Greeley (Colo.) Stampede Career Highlights

★ ★ 2016: (Partner Paul Eaves) Placed in six rounds to rank second at the Wrangler NFR. Finished fifth in the world standings with $218,611. Won the Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show (Fort Worth, Texas), the National Western Stock Show and Rodeo (Denver), the Pasadena Livestock Show and Rodeo Champions Challenge presented by Justin Boots, the Dodge City, (Kan.) Roundup Rodeo, the Canby (Ore) Rodeo, and the Lawton (Okla.) Rangers Rodeo. Won the all-around and team roping at the Butterfield Stage Days PRCA Rodeo (Bridgeport, Texas), with Wesley Johnson. Won the all-around and co-champion in team roping at the Strawberry Days Rodeo (Pleasant Grove, Utah). Won the all-around at the Amarillo (Texas) Tri-State Fair and Rodeo ★ ★ 2015: (Partner Paul Eaves) Placed in four rounds to rank 11th at his first Wrangler NFR. Won the Deadwood (S.D.) Days of ‘76 Rodeo, the Mountain Valley Stampede (Heber City, Utah), That Famous Preston (Idaho) Night Rodeo and the Gladewater (Texas) Round-Up Rodeo. Co-champion at the Beef Empire Days PRCA Rodeo (Garden City,

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