2020 Media Guide - PRORODEO Cowboys

2019 ProRodeo Top Cowboys (continued)

Zeke Thurston

Saddle Bronc Riding

Event:

2019 world standings place: 1 st 2019 Wrangler NFR standings place: 4 th 2019 Wrangler NFR earnings:

$170,064 $347,056 $1,206,192

2019 earnings: Career earnings:

July 15, 1994, in Big Valley, Alberta

Born:

Big Valley, Alberta

Residence: Joined PRCA: World titles:

2015

2 (2016, 2019) 5 (2015-19)

Wrangler NFR qualifications: Wrangler NFR average titles:

1 (2016)

Sheridan (Wyo.) College

Education:

Professional 2019Highlights ★ Won Rounds 1, 7 and 9 and placed in seven rounds to rank fourth in the average with 699.5 points on eight head at the Wrangler NFR ★ Won the Ponoka (Alberta) Stampede ★ Won theWilliams Lake (Alberta) Stampede

★ Won the Rodeo Corpus Christi (Texas) ★ Won the Red Bluff (Calif.) Round-Up ★ Won the the Drayton Valley (Alberta) Pro Rodeo ★ Won the Hand Hills Lake Stampede (Craigmyle, Alberta) ★ Won the Grande Prairie (Alberta) Stompede ★ Won the the Hard Grass Bronc Match (Pollockville, Alberta) ★ Won the Hanna (Alberta) Indoor Pro Rodeo ★ Co-champion at the Innisfail (Alberta) Pro Rodeo ★ Co-champion at the Leduc (Alberta) Black Gold Pro Rodeo Career Highlights

★ 2018: Won Round 9 and split the win in Round 6 while placing in eight rounds of theWrangler NFR with 693.5 points on eight head.Won the NationalWestern Stock Show and Rodeo (Denver, Colo.), theWainwright (Alberta) Stampede, the Red Bluff (Calif.) Round-Up, the Lea Park Rodeo (Marwayne, Alberta), the Innisfail (Alberta) Pro Rodeo and the Wildwood (Alberta) Bronc Bustin’. Co-champion at the Fallon County Xtreme Broncs (Baker, Mont.) ★ 2017: Placed in two rounds to place 10th in the average with 563 points on seven head at theWrangler NFR and seventh in the world standings with $199,917.Won the K-Days Rodeo (Edmonton, Alberta), the Ponoka (Alberta) Stampede; Rodeo Austin (Texas), the Redding (Calif.) Rodeo, the IPE and Stampede (Armstrong, British Columbia), the Lewiston (Idaho) Roundup, theWrangler Champions Challenge presented by Justin Boots (Rapid City, S.D.), the Camrose (Alberta) Spring Rodeo, the Daines Ranch Pro Rodeo (Innisfail, Alberta), the Rocky Pro Rodeo (Rocky Mountain House, Alberta), the Elgin (Ore.) Stampede, the Jasper (Alberta) Heritage Rodeo, the Kitsap Stampede (Bremerton,Wash.), the Golden Spike Rodeo (Tremonton, Utah) and the Iron County Fair and PRCA Rodeo (Parowan, Utah). Co-champion at theWorld’s Oldest Rodeo (Prescott, Ariz.). ★ 2016: Won Round 6 and placed in six rounds to rank first at theWrangler NFR.Won the world title with $265,449.Won the Justin Boots Playoffs (Puyallup,Wash.), the Canby (Ore) Rodeo, the Southeastern Livestock Exposition (Montgomery, Ala.), the Hand Hills Lake Stampede (Craigmyle, Alberta), the Rodeo ofThe Ozarks (Springdale, Ark.), the Kitsap Stampede (Bremerton,Wash.), the Rodeo de Santa Fe (N.M.), theMissoula (Mont.) Stampede, and the Home On the Range Champions Ride (Sentinel Butte, N.D.). Co-champion at the 22nd Glen Rose (Texas) PRCA Rodeo ★ 2015: Placed in two rounds at his firstWrangler National Finals Rodeo presented by Polaris RANGER, finished 11th in the world standings with $127,970.Won theWorld’s Oldest Rodeo (Prescott, Ariz.), the Oakley Independence Day Rodeo (Oakley City, Utah), La Fiesta de losVaqueros (Tucson, Ariz.) with 168 points on two head, ATribute to the Great American Cowboy (Casper,Wyo.), the Lake County Round-up (Lakeview, Ore.), the Rocky ProRodeo (Rocky Mountain House, Alberta) and the Oldstoberfest (Olds, Alberta). Co-champion at the Farm-City Pro Rodeo (Hermiston, Ore.), the Strathmore (Alberta) Stampede, the Oakdale (Calif.) Saddle Club Rodeo. ★ 2014: Won the RAMMontana Circuit Finals Rodeo (Great Falls); ATribute to the Great American Cowboy (Casper,Wyo.); the Rocky Mountain Classic (Kalispell, Mont.); the Richland County Fair (Sidney, Mont.) and the Dawson County Fair & Rodeo (Glendive, Mont.). Earned $18,239 on his permit Personal 5-9, 145 …Wife, Jayne; daughter, Lucy (born in 2018) … Father, Skeeter, six-time Wrangler NFR qualifier (1986-87, 1989, 1991, 1994-95) as a saddle bronc rider; mother, Lynda; brothers, Wyatt and Sam, also compete in saddle bronc riding; younger sister, Tess, competes in barrel racing and goat tying

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