2020 Media Guide - PRORODEO Cowboys

★ 2016: Won the Young County Rodeo (Graham, Texas); the XIT Rodeo & Reunion (Dalhart, Texas); the North Texas State Fair & Rodeo (Denton, Texas) and the Burden (Kan.) PRCA Rodeo. Tied at the Steamboat Springs (Colo.) Pro Rodeo Series on July 30. Ranked third in the permit standings with $9,259 Amateur Competed at the National High School Finals Rodeo in 2013-14 for team roping and 2015-16 for saddle bronc riding Personal 5-8, 140 … Single … Parents, Andy and Krissie; brother, Dylan …Was homeschooled … Attended Clarendon (Texas) College …Works with cattle … Started competing when he was 5 or 6 years old … Used to compete in team roping and then switched to saddle bronc riding his junior year of high school … Uncle, Gary Ledford, was a PRCA tie-down roper and his brother Dylan is a PRCA team roper … Favorite rodeo is the Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show in Fort Worth, Texas, because he does well there and it’s at the start of the year … Superstitions include not eating chicken before a rodeo … Describes his riding style as never holding back … Looks up to several bronc riders, including Wade Sundell and Taos Muncy … His dream draw is Burch Rodeo’s Lunatic Fringe …Works out at a boxing gym when at home and does push-ups and sit-ups during his downtime … Enjoys hog hunting and fishing … Favorite food is Mexican … Favorite musician is David Allen Coe

Travis Graves

Team Roping (Heeling)

Event:

2019 world standings place: 13 th 2019 Wrangler NFR standings place: 14 th 2019 Wrangler NFR earnings:

$30,731 $133,896 $1,868,552

2019 earnings: Career earnings:

March 1, 1984, in Jay, Okla.

Born:

Jay, Okla.

Residence: Joined PRCA: World titles:

2003

0

11 (2008, 2010-19)

Wrangler NFR qualifications: Wrangler NFR average titles:

1 (2017)

Professional 2019 Highlights ★ Placed in one round to rank 14th in the average with 20.3 seconds on four head at the Wrangler NFR with Ty Blasingame ★ Won the Waller County Fair & Rodeo (Hempstead, Texas) with Clay Tryan ★ Won Ogden (Utah) Pioneer Days with Clay Tryan ★ Won the Daggett County Centennial Rodeo (Manila, Utah) with Clay Tryan Career Highlights ★ 2018: (Partner Clay Tryan) Finished 13th in the world standings with $118,928. Placed 15th in the average at the Wrangler NFR, earning $25,795. Placed in one round. Won the Washington (Puyallup) State Fair Pro Rodeo, the Strawberry Days Rodeo (Pleasant Grove, Utah), the Johnson County Sheriff’s Posse (Cleburne, Texas), the Eugene (Ore.) Pro Rodeo, the Kansas Biggest Rodeo (Phillipsburg, Kan.) and Montana’s (Dillon) Biggest Weekend ★ 2017: (Partner Chad Masters) Finished 5th in the world standings with $202,688. Placed first at the Wrangler NFR with $110,269. Placed in four rounds. Won California Rodeo Salinas, the Canby (Ore.) Rodeo, the World’s Oldest Rodeo (Prescott, Ariz.), the Springville (Calif.) Sierra Rodeo and the Rodeo of the Ozarks (Springdale, Ark.) ★ 2016: (Partner Colby Lovell) Placed in two rounds to rank 12th at the Wrangler NFR. Finished 14th in the world standings with $106,450. Won the Canby (Ore) Rodeo, Kansas (Phillipsburg) Biggest Rodeo, the Wild Bill Hickok Rodeo (Abilene, Kan.) and the Rancho Mission Viejo Rodeo (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.). Co-champion at the Sikeston (Mo.) Jaycee Bootheel Rodeo, the Southwestern International PRCA Rodeo (El Paso, Texas) and the Steamboat Springs (Colo.) Pro Rodeo Series (July 8-9) ★ 2015: (Partner Chad Masters) Placed in three rounds at the Wrangler NFR. Won the Clovis (Calif.) Rodeo, the Caldwell (Idaho) Night Rodeo and the Missoula (Mont.) Stampede. Co-champion at the Lea County Fair & PRCA Rodeo (Lovington, N.M.). Finished 10th in the world standings with $143,496 ★ 2014: (Partner Trevor Brazile) Won Round 8 of the Wrangler NFR and placed in four other rounds en route to finishing fifth in the average standings. Won California Rodeo Salinas; the National Western Stock Show and Rodeo (Denver); the Canby (Ore.) Rodeo and the Ramona (Calif.) Rodeo. Co-champion at the Wrangler Champions Challenge Finale (Omaha, Neb.); the Wrangler Champions Challenge (Rapid City, S.D.); the Hugo (Okla.) PRCA Rodeo and the Parker County Frontier Days and PRCA Rodeo (Weatherford, Texas). Finished second in the world standings with $176,183 ★ Won the Evanston (Wyo.) Cowboy Days with Clay Tryan ★ Co-champion at Kansas’(Phillipsburg) Biggest Rodeo

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