2018 PRCA Media Guide

2017 ProRodeo Top Cowboys (continued)

★ ★ 2014: Won the Justin Boots Playoffs (Puyallup, Wash.) and the Dinosaur Roundup Rodeo (Vernal, Utah); finished second in the rookie standings to John“Catfish”Brown after breaking his left ankle on his first run at the Pendleton (Ore.) Round-Up in September. Finished 31st in the world standings with $39,672 Personal 6-1, 170 … Single … Father, Vladetim, works on a ranch; mother, Joana … Left home at 14 to become a horse trainer and roper 1,000 miles away in Sao Paulo, Brazil … Mentored by 2008 World Champion Tie-down Roper Stran Smith and he lives in a guest house on the Smiths’property in Childress, Texas; they met when Smith was conducting roping clinics in Brazil in 2013 … Has undergone four surgeries on his right knee

Blane Cox

Tie-down roping, steer wrestling

Events:

TD 16th $78,317 $305,293

2017 world standings place:

2017 earnings: Career earnings:

June 28, 1993, in Victoria, Texas

Born:

Cameron, Texas

Residence: Joined PRCA: World titles:

2012

0

1 (2016)

Wrangler NFR qualifications:

Hill College (Hillsboro, Texas)

Education:

Professional 2017 Highlights

★ ★ Won the Strathmore (Alberta) Stampede ★ ★ Won (Phillipsburg) Kansas Biggest Rodeo ★ ★ Won the Pincher Creek (Alberta) Pro Rodeo

★ ★ Co-champion at the K-Days Rodeo (Edmonton, Alberta) ★ ★ Co-champion at the Leduc (Alberta) Black Gold Rodeo ★ ★ Co-champion at the Hand Hills Lake Stampede (Craigmyle, Alberta) Career Highlights

★ ★ 2016: Placed in four rounds to rank sixth at theWrangler NFR. Finished 12th in the world standings with $161,281. Won the Crosby (Texas) Fair & Rodeo and the American Royal Rodeo (Kansas City, Mo.). Co-champion at the Parker County Sheriff’s Posse Frontier Days and Rodeo (Weatherford, Texas) ★ ★ 2015: Won the Greeley (Colo.) Stampede, Laramie (Wyo.) Jubilee Days Rodeo, the Panola County Cattlemen’s Rodeo (Carthage,Texas) and the Mountain Valley Stampede (Heber City, Utah). Finished 27th in the world standings with $47,683 ★ ★ 2014: Won the Los Fresnos (Texas) PRCA Rodeo; finished 95th in the world standings with $12,775 ★ ★ 2013: Won the Grimes County Fair (Navasota, Texas) and co-champion at the Mesquite (Texas) Pro Rodeo Series on July 12; finished 51st in the all-around world standings with $14,887 and 97th among tie-down ropers with $11,195 ★ ★ 2012: Finished 20th in the rookie standings with $3,746; earned an additional $1,164 on his permit Amateur Three-time qualifier for the College National Finals Rodeo (2013-15), finishing fifth in the all-around, seventh in tie- down roping and 10th in steer wrestling in 2013. He was fifth in the tie-down roping the following year and won two rounds of the tie-down roping in 2015. Three-time qualifier for the National High School Finals Rodeo (2010-12) Personal 6-0, 185…Single…Mother, Lisa Cox, is an accountant in College Station,Texas; father, Carl, repairs and remodels used horse trailers; older sister, Shayla Cox …Works as an equine dentist when not out on the road competing … Enjoys deer hunting … Credits his parents, both of whom have competed in rodeo, for his development as a professional … Home-schooled in grades 7-9 and for his last two years of high school; played football (outside linebacker) at Cameron Yoe High School as a sophomore … California Rodeo Salinas, the Greeley (Colo.) Stampede and the Pendleton (Ore.) Round-Up are his favorite rodeos … Favorite movie is “The Man from Snowy River” (1982) … Favorite music is prime country

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