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Amateur Won the National High School Finals Rodeo in 2010 with Dustin Hodge. Qualified for the National High School Finals Rodeo in 2011 Personal 6-0, 185 …Wife, Brittany, married in 2018, is a registered nurse … Father, Dewayne Worley; mother, Wendy Worley … Father-in-law is ProRodeo Hall of Famer Bobby Hurley, the 1993 and 1995 World Champion Team Roping Header … Graduated from Berryville (Ark.) High School in 2011 with a class of 130 … Started competing in rodeo when he was 11 or 12 years old because his dad used to rope … Considers the 2018 Pendleton (Ore.) Round-Up to be his toughest competition and his favorite rodeo since he won it with Chad Masters, but most cowboys go their entire careers without winning there … Practices roping about five or six hours per day … Looks up to Clay O’Brien Cooper … Rodeo superstition is to not put his hat on the bed … Enjoys hunting duck and deer and going bass fishing … Favorite movie is“Tombstone”… Listens to old country and classic rock music 2019 ProRodeo Top Cowboys (continued)

Jesse Wright

Saddle Bronc Riding

Event:

2019 world standings place: 11 th 2019 Wrangler NFR standings place: 7 th 2019 Wrangler NFR earnings:

$58,654 $155,159 $1,471,334

2019 earnings: Career earnings:

June 21, 1989, in St. George, Utah

Born:

Milford, Utah

Residence: Joined PRCA: World titles:

2008

1 (2012)

8 (2010-14, 2016-17, 2019)

Wrangler NFR qualifications: Wrangler NFR average titles:

1 (2011)

College of Southern Idaho (Twin Falls)

Education:

Professional 2019Highlights ★ Won Round 2 and placed in two rounds to rank seventh in the average with 588.5 points on seven head at theWrangler NFR ★ Won RodeoHouston (Texas) ★ Won the Oakdale (Calif.) Saddle Club Rodeo ★ 2017: Placed in two rounds at theWrangler NFR to place 15th in the average with 330 points on four head. Ranked 15th in the world standings with 109,053.Won the Cody (Wyo.) Stampede, the Dinosaur Roundup Rodeo (Vernal, Utah), the Lehi (Utah) Roundup, the Evanston (Wyo.) Cowboy Days Inc., the Kit Carson County Fair & Rodeo (Burlington, Colo.), the San LuisValley Ski-Hi Stampede (MonteVista, Colo.) and the Harrison (Ark.) PRCA Rodeo ★ 2016: Placed in four rounds to rank seventh at theWrangler NFR. Finished tenth in the world standings with $150,424. Won the RAMWilderness Circuit Finals Rodeo (Heber City, Utah), the Pendleton (Ore.) Round-Up, the Jesse Andrus & Mike HillmanMemorial (Roswell, N.M.), the Eagle (Idaho) Rodeo, the Lehi (Utah) Roundup, the Golden Spike Rodeo (Tremonton, Utah) and the Poway (Calif.) Rodeo. Co-champion at the Horse Heaven Round-Up (Kennewick,Wash.) ★ 2015: Won the Rodeo of the Ozarks (Springdale, Ark.), theWrangler Champions Challenge (Scottsdale, Ariz.), the Pony Express Rodeo (EagleMountain, Utah), the Desertview ProRodeo (Castle Dale, Utah), the Omak (Wash.) Stampede and the Evanston (Wyo.) Cowboy Days Inc. Co-champion at the Summit County Fair & Rodeo (Coalville, Utah). Finished 19th in the world standings with $53,769 ★ 2014: Placed in four rounds to rank fourth at theWrangler NFR.Won the RAMWilderness Circuit Finals Rodeo (Heber City, Utah); theWrangler Champions Challenge Finale (Omaha, Neb.); California Rodeo Salinas; the Amarillo (Texas) Tri-State Fair & Rodeo and the Summit County Fair & Rodeo (Coalville, Utah). Co-champion at the Redding (Calif.) Rodeo; the Rotary Rodeo (Starkville, Miss.) and the Daniel Dopps Memorial RAMPRCA Rodeo (Mountain Home, Idaho). Finished eighth in the world standings with $134,502 ★ 2013: Won Round 6 of theWrangler NFR with 83.5-point ride on Stace Smith Pro Rodeos’Goin’South and placed in three other rounds to rank 10th in the average; finished eighth in the world standings with $146,110.Won theWrangler Champions Challenge (Amarillo,Texas); California Rodeo Salinas; the Lewiston (Idaho) Round-Up; the Oakdale (Calif.) Saddle Club Rodeo; the Colorado State Fair & Rodeo (Pueblo); the Santa Maria (Calif.) Elks Rodeo; the Crooked River Roundup (Prineville, Ore.); the Pony Express Days Rodeo (EagleMountain, Utah); the Red Desert Roundup (Rock Springs,Wyo.); the Daniel Dopps Memorial RAMPRCA Rodeo (Mountain Home, Idaho); the Eagle (Colo.) County Fair & Rodeo; the Davis County Fair (Farmington, Utah) and the St. George (Utah) Lions Dixie Roundup. Co-champion at the MagicValley Stampede (Filer, Idaho); the Norco (Calif.) Mounted Posse Rodeo and the GemState Classic ProRodeo (Blackfoot, Idaho) Career Highlights ★ 2018: Won the Pendleton (Ore.) Round-Up

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