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2017 ProRodeo Top Cowboys (continued)

Juan Capistrano, Calif.); the Farm-City Pro Rodeo (Hermiston, Ore.); the Southern Mississippi Coca-Cola Classic Rodeo (Hattiesburg, Miss.); the Cowboy Capital of theWorld Pro Rodeo (Stephenville,Texas); the Big Spring (Texas) Cowboy Reunion and the Cassia County Fair & Rodeo (Burley, Idaho) Amateur Texas high school team roping champion (with Jake Cobb), 2007-08; tie-down roping champion, 2006. International Youth Finals Rodeo all-around and tie-down roping champion, 2006. Wrangler Division all-around cowboy at the inaugural Wrangler Junior High School Finals (Gallup, N.M.), 2005 Personal 5-11, 160 … Single … Parents are Shari Cooper and Roy “Super Looper” Cooper, a member of the ProRodeo Hall of Fame and an eight-time world champion; brothers Clint (four-time Wrangler NFR qualifier) and Clif are both PRCA competitors in tie-down roping. In 2010, Tuf, Clif and Clint became the first set of three brothers to qualify for the Wrangler NFR in tie-down roping in the same year; they repeated in 2011 … Sister Shada is married to 11-time World Champion All-Around CowboyTrevor Brazile. Grandfather, Clifton Smith, was an NFR tie-down roper in 1960 and 1962 and uncle, Stran Smith, is a 10-time NFR qualifier and the 2008 world champion …Won his first all-around title at age 6 at the Earth, Texas, High Plains Junior Rodeo Association event in 1996 …With his brother, Clif, started marketing Tuf E Nuf Healthy Energy Juice early in 2012

Jade Corkill

Team Roping (Heeling)

Event:

10th 12th

2017 world standings place: 2017 NFR standings place:

$72,615 $153,999 $1,644,802

2017 NFR earnings: 2017 earnings: Career earnings:

Aug. 22, 1987, in Fallon, Nev.

Born:

Fallon, Nev.

Residence: Joined PRCA: World titles:

2006

3 (2012-14)

9 (2008-15, 2017)

Wrangler NFR qualifications: Tour Finale qualifications:

6 (2009-14)

1 (2013)

RNCFR qualifications:

Feather River College (Quincy, Calif.)

Education:

Professional 2017 Highlights – partner Clay Tryan ★ ★ Won the Tri-State Rodeo (Fort Madison, Iowa) ★ ★ Won Ogden (Utah) Pioneer Days ★ ★ Won the Yellowstone River Round-Up (Billings, Mont.) ★ ★ Co-champion at the New Mexico (Albuquerque) State Fair & Rodeo ★ ★ Co-champion at the Gooding (Idaho) Pro Rodeo Career Highlights ★ ★ 2016: Did not compete

PRORODEO COWBOYS

★ ★ 2015: (Partner Clay Tryan) Placed in three rounds at the Wrangler NFR. Won the Wrangler Champions Challenges (Kissimmee, Fla., Rapid City, S.D., Redding, Calif. and Spanish Fork, Utah), the Ellensburg (Wash.) Rodeo, the Clark County Fair & Rodeo (Logandale, Nev.), the Colorado State Fair & Rodeo (Pueblo) and the Johnson County Sheriff’s Posse PRCA Rodeo (Cleburne, Texas). Co-champion at the Justin Boots Playoffs (Puyallup, Wash.), the Pendleton (Ore.) Round-Up and the New Mexico State Fair & Rodeo (Albuquerque) ★ ★ 2014: Placed in seven of 10 rounds at theWrangler NFR en route to winning the average title, his third gold buckle and setting a single-season earnings record for his event of $220,058. Won the Redding (Calif.) Rodeo; the San Angelo (Texas) Rodeo and the Clovis (Calif.) Rodeo ★ ★ 2013: Tied for the win in Round 7 of the Wrangler NFR with a time of 4.1 seconds and placed in four other rounds to wrap up his second consecutive world championship with $178,057. Won Cheyenne (Wyo.) Frontier Days; the Sikeston (Mo.) Jaycee Bootheel Rodeo; the RAM National Circuit Finals Rodeo (Oklahoma City, Okla.), with Shane Erickson; the Horse Heaven Round-Up Rodeo (Kennewick, Wash.); the Rowell Ranch Rodeo (Hayward, Calif.) and the Eugene (Ore.) ProRodeo. Won the all-around and team roping at the Ellensburg (Wash.) Rodeo. Co-champion at the Austin County Fair and Rodeo (Bellville, Texas), with Zayne Dishion ★ ★ 2012: (Partner Kaleb Driggers) Won Round 10 of the Wrangler NFR in a time of 4.0, earned a share of first place in Round 1 and placed in four other rounds in between to win his first gold buckle with $190,797. Won the Reno (Nev.) Rodeo; Rodeo Austin; the Grand National Rodeo (San Francisco, Calif.), with JustinWade Davis; the Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo (Colorado Springs, Colo.); the Snake River Stampede (Nampa, Idaho); the Kitsap Stampede (Bremerton, Wash.) and the Kern County Fair Rodeo (Bakersfield, Calif.), with Wade Wheatley. Won the all-around and was co-champion in the team roping at the Rowell Ranch Rodeo (Hayward, Calif.), with Zayne Dishion

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