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2017 ProRodeo Top Cowboys (continued) mother, Ronda, works in oilfield security; brother, Rode (pronounced Row-e); sister, Angie; he is a third cousin to Canadian Rodeo Hall of Fame stock contractor Wayne Vold and former saddle bronc rider Doug Vold, a six-time qualifier for the Canadian Finals Rodeo … Enjoys training colts, hunting and fishing … Favorite movies are Westerns, especially John Wayne films … Favorite meal is prime rib … Favorite rodeo is his hometown Ponoka Stampede

Tyler Waguespack

Steer wrestling

Event:

4th

2017 world standings place: 2017 NFR standings place:

11th

$127,333 $231,277 $793,156

2017 NFR earnings: 2017 earnings: Career earnings:

Dec. 19, 1990, in Gonzales, La.

Born:

Gonzales, La.

Residence: Joined PRCA: World titles:

2012

1

3 (2015-17)

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

1 (2016) 1 (2015) 1 (2013)

RNCFR qualifications:

Professional 2017 Highlights ★ ★ Won the West of the Pecos (Texas) Rodeo ★ ★ Won the Sitting Bull Stampede (Mobridge, S.D.) Career Highlights

★ ★ 2016: Won the world title and the average by splitting the win in three rounds and placing in eight rounds of the Wrangler NFR. Waguespack set a new single-season steer wrestling total money record by finishing the year with $298,676. He also won the RAM Top Gun Award for most money earned at the Wrangler NFR, $213,218. Won the All-American ProRodeo Finals (Waco, Texas), the Spanish Fork (Utah) Fiesta Days Rodeo, the Wrangler Champions Challenges presented by Justin Boots (Kissimmee, Fla., Rapid City, S.D, and Spanish Fork, Utah), the Oakdale (Calif.) Saddle Club Rodeo, the Guymon (Okla.) Pioneer Days Rodeo, the Walker County Fair & Rodeo (Huntsville, Texas), the Georgia National Jr. Livestock Show& Rodeo (Perry, Ga.), the SouthernMiss Coca-Cola Classic Rodeo (Hattiesburg, Miss.), the ABC Pro Rodeo (Lubbock, Texas) and the Mountain Valley Stampede (Heber City, Utah). Co-champion at the Four States Fair & Rodeo (Texarkana, Ark.) ★ ★ 2015: Won Round 7 and placed in two other rounds at his first Wrangler NFR. Won the Red Bluff (Calif.) Round-Up, the Spanish Fork (Utah) Fiesta Days Rodeo, the Lewiston (Idaho) Roundup, the Wild Bill Hickok Rodeo (Abilene, Kan.) and the Central Ark PRCA Rodeo (El Paso, Ark.). Co-champion at the Eugene (Ore.) ProRodeo. Finished 11th in the world standings with $135,591 ★ ★ 2014: Won theWestTexas Fair & Rodeo (Abilene), the Home of Champions Rodeo (Red Lodge, Mont.), the Bennington (Kan.) PRCA Rodeo, the Rusk County PRCA Rodeo (Henderson,Texas) and the Bowie (Texas) PRCA Rodeo. Co-champion at the Cassia County Fair & Rodeo (Burley, Idaho). Finished 22nd in the world standings with $45,968 ★ ★ 2013: Won the Odessa Rodeo & Festival (Tampa, Fla.) and the North Idaho Fair & Rodeo (Coeur d’Alene); finished 36th in the world standings with $31,993 ★ ★ 2012: Won the RAM Southeastern Circuit Finals Rodeo (Davie, Fla.), theTrinityValley Exposition (Liberty,Texas), the Mid-Winter Fair & Rodeo (Lafayette, La.), the Crosby (Texas) Fair & Rodeo and the Bryan (Texas) Breakfast Lions Club PRCA Rodeo. Co-champion at the SWDistrict Fat Stock Show (Lake Charles, La.). Finished sixth in the rookie standings and 57th in the world with $20,041 Amateur Three-time qualifier for the National High School Rodeo after winning the Louisiana State High School

PRORODEO COWBOYS

Championships in 2008-10 Personal

6-1, 190 … Single … Parents, Michael and Vicki Waguespack; sisters, Joanie, Tobie and Mandie. Michael was a PRCA steer wrestler in the 1990s and still occasionally hazes for Tyler; cousin Randi Robert qualified for the National High School Finals Rodeo … Started competing in bulldogging and tie-down roping while in junior high school … Enjoys hunting and fishing … Graduated from East Ascension High School in Gonzales, La., with a class of about 300 … Four-time World Champion Steer Wrestler Ote Berry is a mentor … Favorite rodeos are Cheyenne (Wyo.) Frontier Days and California Rodeo Salinas … Favorite movie is“Step Brothers”

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