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2017 ProRodeo Top Cowboys (continued) ★ ★ Won the Wichita Falls (Texas) PRCA Rodeo ★ ★ Won the Bandera (Texas) PRCA Rodeo ★ ★ Won the Central Wyoming Fair & Rodeo (Casper, Wyo.) ★ ★ Won the Othello (Wash.) PRCA Rodeo ★ ★ Co-champion at the Dodge City (Kan.) Xtreme Bulls Division 2 event ★ ★ Co-champion at the PRCA Championship Rodeo (Park City, Kan.) Amateur Won the Texas junior high and high school state bull riding championships. Personal

5-11, 155 … single … Father, Jay, used to ride bulls, but never in the PRCA; Jay gave his son the nickname Boudreaux as a baby and it stuck; sisters, Katie and Taylor; brothers, twins, Blake and Bryce, rodeoed in high school. Graduated from Lovelady (Texas) High School in 2017 … Started mutton bustin’at age 4… Enjoys team roping as a heeler when not riding bulls and hog hunting with dogs … Favorite rodeos are Red Bluff (Calif.) Round-Up and Reno (Nev.) Rodeo … Favorite movie is“The Fast and the Furious”… Favorite sports team is the Dallas Cowboys

Russell Cardoza

Steer wrestling, team roping (heeling), tie-down roping 9th (AA), 222nd (SW), 12th (TR), 87th (TD)

Events:

2017 world standings place: 2017 NFR standings place:

13th

$36,231 $149,026 $1,190,020

2017 NFR earnings: 2017 earnings: Career earnings:

Oct. 23, 1986, in Knights Ferry, Calif.

Born:

Terrebonne, Ore.

Residence: Joined PRCA: World titles:

2006

0

6 (2009-10, 2012, 2015-17)

Wrangler NFR qualifications: Tour Finale qualifications:

2

2010, 2012

Championship:

1 (2009)

RNCFR titles:

3 (2009, 2011, 2016)

RNCFR qualifications:

Professional 2017 Highlights – partner Dustin Bird ★ ★ Won the K-Days Rodeo (Edmonton, Alberta)

★ ★ Won the IPE and Stampede (Armstrong, British Columbia) ★ ★ Won the Mountain Valley Stampede (Heber City, Utah) ★ ★ Won the Bruce (Alberta) Stampede ★ ★ Won the Wrangler Champions Challenge presented by Justin Boots (Grand Island, Neb.) ★ ★ Won the Williams Lake (British Columbia) Stampede ★ ★ Won the Montana’s (Dillon) Biggest Weekend ★ ★ Won the White Sulphur Springs (Mont.) Labor Day Rodeo ★ ★ Won the all-around at the High Desert Stampede (Redmond, Ore.) ★ ★ Won the all-around and team roping at the Rowell Ranch Rodeo (Hayward, Calif.) ★ ★ Won the all-around and team roping at the Eastern Oregon (Union) Livestock Show ★ ★ Won the all-around and team roping at the Cheney (Wash.) Rodeo ★ ★ Won the all-around at the Omak (Wash.) Stampede ★ ★ Co-champion at the Wrangler Champions Challenge presented by Justin Boots (Santa Maria, Calif.) ★ ★ 2016: (Partner Dustin Bird) Won Round 8 and placed in six rounds to rank ninth at theWrangler NFR. Finished fifth in the world standing in the all-around with $204,720, sixth in team roping with $193,441 and 82nd in tie-down roping with $14,906. Won the Livermore (Calif.) Rodeo, Guy Weadick Days (High River, Alberta), Hand Hills Lake Stampede (Craigmyle, Alberta), Leduc (Alberta) Black Gold Rodeo, the IPE and Stampede, (Armstrong, British Columbia), Airdrie (Alberta) Pro Rodeo, Wolf Point (Mont.) Wild Horse Stampede, the Pincher Creek (Alberta) Pro Rodeo, Montana’s (Dillon) BiggestWeekend and the RAMColumbia River Circuit Finals Rodeo (Yakima,Wash.), with Hayes Smith. Won the all-around at the Red Bluff (Calif.) Round-Up, the St. Paul (Ore.) Rodeo, the Lynden (Wash.) PRCA Rodeo, the Sandhills Stock Show & Rodeo (Odessa, Texas) and all-around and team roping and tie-down roping at the Central Montana (Lewiston) Ram Pro Rodeo. Won the all-around, tie-down roping and co-champion in team roping at the Richland County Fair & Rodeo (Sidney, Mont.). Co-champion at the Sundre (Alberta) Pro Rodeo, the Big Sky ProRodeo Roundup (Great Falls, Mont.) and the Wrangler Champions Challenge presented by Justin Boots (Scottsdale, Ariz.), with Coleman Proctor ★ ★ Co-champion at the Parada del Sol (Scottsdale, Ariz.), with Travis Whitlow ★ ★ Co-champion in the all-around at the Moses Lake (Wash.) Round -Up Career Highlights

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