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2019 ProRodeo Top Cowboys (continued)

2014: (Partner Jake Barnes) First Brazilian team roper to qualify for theWrangler NFR; placed in six rounds and finished second in the average to jump from12th to seventh in the final world standings with $136,036.Won the Spanish Fork (Utah) Fiesta Days Rodeo; the Clark County Fair & Rodeo (Logandale, Nev.); the Oakley Independence Day Rodeo (Oakley City, Utah); the Cave Creek (Ariz.) Fiesta Days Rodeo; the Crooked River Roundup (Prineville, Ore.); the Springville (Calif.) Sierra Rodeo Awards PRCA | Resistol Team Roping Heeler Rookie of the Year, 2014 Amateur Seven-time winner of Brazil’s biggest roping competition. He claimed nine cars, 54 motorcycles and two horse trailers in the course of his career in Brazil Personal 6-0, 170 … Single … Name is pronounced No-Gada … Father, the late Lucinei Nogueira, was an accomplished tie-down roper in Brazil; mother, Eliziane, is a breakaway roper and a team roping header; younger sister, Ludmila … Started roping when he was 4 and turned pro in Brazil at the age of 14 …Met seven-time World Champion Header Jake Barnes through a mutual friend a week before the 2013 Wrangler NFR and they decided to rope together shortly after that; he lives with Barnes and his wife, Toni, in Scottsdale, Ariz.

Tim O’Connell

Bareback Riding

Event:

3rd 2nd

2019 world standings place: 2019 Wrangler NFR standings place: 2019 Wrangler NFR earnings:

$147,923 $261,091 $1,723,580

2019 earnings: Career earnings:

Oct. 24, 1991, Dubuque, Iowa

Born:

Zwingle, Iowa

Residence: Joined PRCA: World titles:

2013

3 (2016-18)

3 (2016-17, 2018-tied)

Wrangler NFR average titles: Wrangler NFR qualifications:

6 (2014-19)

Iowa Central Community College (Fort Dodge) and Missouri Valley College (Marshall, Mo.)

Education:

Professional 2019 Highlights

★ Finished third in the world standings with $261,091. He placed second in theWrangler NFR average, earning $147,923, after placing in seven rounds ★ Won the Ellensburg (Wash.) Rodeo ★ Won the Killdeer (N.D.) Mountain Roundup PRCA Rodeo ★ Won the Nebraska’s (Burwell) Big Rodeo ★ Won the Elk City (Okla.) Rodeo of Champions ★ Won theTri-State Rodeo Cinch Shoot-Out (Fort Madison, Iowa) ★ Co-champion at the Rooftop Rodeo (Estes Park, Colo.) ★ Co-champion at the North American Championship Rodeo (Louisville, Ky.) Career Highlights ★ 2018: Won his third consecutive bareback riding world championship and his third consecutive Wrangler NFR average title with 849.5 points on 10 head, splitting it with Steven Dent. Finished the season with $319,801 and finished with $132,551 in the average at the Finals. Won Round 3 at the Wrangler NFR on Powder River Rodeo’s Craig at Midnight and won Round 9 on Cervi Championship Rodeo’s Vitalix Ain’t No Angel. Also placed in Rounds 4 and 10. Won the Reno (Nev.) Rodeo, the California Rodeo Salinas, the St. Paul (Ore.) Rodeo, the Horse Heaven / Kennewick (Wash.) Round-Up, the Walla Walla (Wash.) Frontier Days, the Greeley (Colo.) Stampede, the Parker County Sheriff’s Posse Frontier Days And PRCA Rodeo (Weatherford, Texas), the Woodward (Okla.) Elks Rodeo, the Midwest Horse Fair & Rodeo (Madison, Wis.), the Licking (Mo.) PRCA Rodeo, the Coleman (Texas) PRCA Rodeo, the Elizabeth (Colo.) Stampede Rodeo, the Jackson County Pro Rodeo (Bellevue, Iowa), the Stanley (Wis.) Rodeo, the 40th Annual Headwaters PRCA Rodeo (Park Rapids, Minn.), the Heart of the North Rodeo (Spooner, Wis.), the Western Fest Stampede Rodeo (Granite Falls, Minn.), the Oakley Independence Day Rodeo (Oakley City, Utah), the Fallon County Fair & Rodeo (Baker, Mont.) and the River City Rodeo (Omaha, Neb.). Co-champion at the Ram National Circuit Finals Rodeo (Kissimmee, Fla.), the Franklin (Tenn.) Rodeo and the Flint Hills Rodeo (Strong City, Kan.)

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