2020 Media Guide - PRORODEO Cowboys

2019 ProRodeo Top Cowboys (continued)

★ Won the Rio Grande Valley Livestock Show & Rodeo (Mercedes, Texas) ★ Won the 101 WildWest Rodeo (Ponca City, Okla.) ★ Won the Dillon (Mont.) Jaycees PRCA Rodeo-Montana’s Biggest Weekend ★ Won the New Mexico (Albuquerque) State Fair & Rodeo

Career Highlights ★ 2018: Won the Fort Bend County Fair & Rodeo (Rosenberg, Texas). Co-champion at the All American ProRodeo Finals (Waco, Texas) ★ 2017: During Round 10 or the Wrangler NFR, Costa set in motion a series of events he will remember for the rest of his life. Costa won the round with a 7.8-second run and in the process, took first place in the average with an 81.3-second time on 10 head and became the first Brazilian to win a PRCA Tie-Down Roping world champion- ship with $317,421. Costa also won the RAM Top Gun honor by earning $195,519, the most by any single-event competitor at the 2017 WNFR. Won the National Western Stock Show and Rodeo (Denver), the West of the Pecos (Texas) Rodeo, the Strawberry Days Rodeo (Pleasant Grove, Utah), the Parker County Sherriff’s Posse Frontier Days and PRCA Rodeo (Weatherford, Texas), the Wrangler Champions Challenge presented by Justin Boots (Rapid City, S.D.) and the Cassia County Fair & Rodeo (Burley, Idaho). Co-champion at the RAM Texas (Waco) Circuit Finals Rodeo, the Wrangler Champions Challenge presented by Justin Boots (Redding, Calif.) and the Four States Fair & Rodeo (Texarkana, Ark.) ★ 2016: Won Round 2 and placed in five rounds to rank ninth at the Wrangler NFR. Finished second in the world standings with $208,927. Won Rodeo Austin (Texas), the Home of Champions Rodeo (Red Lodge, Mont.), the Four States Fair & Rodeo (Texarkana, Ark.) and the Redding (Calif.) Rodeo Champion Challenge presented by Justin Boots. Co-champion at the Horse Heaven Round-upWranglers Champions Challenge presented by Justin Boots (Kennewick, Wash.), the Oakley Independence Day Rodeo (Oakley City, Utah) and the Four States Fair & Rodeo (Texarkana, Ark.) ★ 2015: Placed in three rounds at his first Wrangler NFR. Won the World’s Oldest Rodeo (Prescott, Ariz.), the Clark County Fair & Rodeo (Logandale, Nev.), the Old Fort Days Rodeo (Fort Smith, Ark.) and the Walla Walla (Wash.) Frontier Days. Finished 11th in the world standings with $148,073 ★ 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 …Wife, Keyla…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 – 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

Jacobs Crawley

Saddle Bronc Riding

Event:

2019 world standings place: 9 th 2019 Wrangler NFR standings place: 5 th 2019 Wrangler NFR earnings:

$70,923 $191,935 $1,875,139

2019 earnings: Career earnings:

May 27, 1988, in Ennis, Texas

Born:

Stephenville, Texas

Residence: Joined PRCA: World titles:

2006

1 (2015)

9 (2011-19) 2 (2013, 2015)

Wrangler NFR qualifications: Wrangler NFR average titles:

Texas A&M University (College Station), degree in industrial and systems engineering

Education:

Professional 2019 Highlights ★ 2019 world standings place: 9th

★ 2019 Wrangler NFR standings place: 5th ★ 2019 Wrangler NFR earnings: $70,923 ★ 2019 earnings: $191,935 ★ Wrangler NFR average titles: 2 (2013, 2015) ★ Education: Texas A&M University (College Station), degree in industrial and systems engineering

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