2020 Media Guide - PRORODEO Cowboys

★ 2013: (Partner Kaleb Driggers) Won Round 9 of the Wrangler NFR and placed in three other rounds; finished third in the world standings with $162,351. Won the Cody (Wyo.) Stampede; the Clovis (Calif.) Rodeo; the Dodge City (Kan.) Roundup Rodeo; the Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo (Colorado Springs, Colo.); the Pioneer Days Rodeo (Clovis, N.M.); the Coleman (Texas) PRCA Rodeo; the Tulsa (Okla.) State Fair PRCA Rodeo, with Turtle Powell and the Walker County Fair & Rodeo (Huntsville, Texas). Co-champion at the Stephenville (Texas) Cowboy Capital Pro Rodeo and the Butterfield Stage Days PRCA Rodeo (Bridgeport, Texas), with Luke Brown. Co-champion at the Glen Rose (Texas) PRCA Rodeo, with Clay Tryan ★ 2012: (Partner Clay Tryan) Won Round 7 of the Wrangler NFR and placed in four other rounds. Finished eighth in the world standings with $137,287. Won the Justin Boots Playoffs (Puyallup, Wash.); the Sheridan WYO Rodeo; the Clark County Fair & Rodeo (Logandale, Nev.); the Gooding (Idaho) ProRodeo; the Molalla (Ore.) Buckeroo Rodeo; the Lynden (Wash.) PRCA Rodeo and Montana’s Biggest Weekend (Dillon, Mont.) ★ 2011: (Partner Clay Tryan) Placed in four rounds at the Wrangler NFR and finished second in the world standings with $189,649. Won the National Western Stock Show & Rodeo (Denver); the Ellensburg (Wash.) Rodeo; the Lea County Fair & PRCA Rodeo (Lovington, N.M.); the Lewiston (Idaho) Roundup; the Lynden (Wash.) PRCA Rodeo; the Sandhills Stock Show & Rodeo (Odessa, Texas); the Red Bluff (Calif.) Round-Up and the Cassia County Fair & Rodeo (Burley, Idaho) ★ 2010: (Partner Clay Tryan) Placed in five rounds of the Wrangler NFR, including a win in Round 9. Finished second in the world standings with $185,784 after breaking the regular-season earnings record for team roping heeling with $147,653, eclipsing the record of $118,277 set by Jade Corkill in 2009. Won the Justin Boots Championships (Omaha, Neb.); Tryan and Graves won the most championship money of anyone in Omaha, collecting $34,955 each. Won the Black Hills Stock Show & Rodeo (Rapid City, S.D.); the Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo (Colorado Springs, Colo.); the Sisters (Ore.) Rodeo; Rodeo de Santa Fe (N.M.); the Cassia County Fair & Rodeo (Burley, Idaho); the Othello (Wash.) PRCA Rodeo ★ 2009: (Partner Turtle Powell) Won the Fort Worth (Texas) Stock Show and Rodeo and the Lawton (Okla.) Rangers Rodeo; finished 22nd in the world standings with earnings of $42,810 ★ 2008: (Partner Turtle Powell) Placed in four of 10 rounds in the Wrangler NFR, finishing second in the average standings and 11th in the world standings with $107,701. Won the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo; the Dinosaur Round-Up Rodeo (Vernal, Utah); the Lea County Fair & Rodeo (Lovington, N.M.); the Missoula (Mont.) Stampede and the Moses Lake (Wash.) Roundup ★ 2007: Co-champion at the Fort Worth (Texas) Stock Show and Rodeo, with Keven Daniel, and won the Beef Empire Days PRCA Rodeo (Garden City, Kan.), with Turtle Powell ★ 2006: Won the Poway (Calif.) Rodeo, with Keven Daniel ★ 2002: Won the Wrangler ProRodeo Tour Round at the Ellensburg (Wash.) Rodeo, with Blaine Linaweaver Amateur Won the International Finals Youth Rodeo heeling title, 2001 Personal 5-10, 205 …Wife, Tamika (married June 11, 2005); son, Tee (born Nov. 5, 2012); daughter, True Vista (born June 24, 2014) … Enjoys basketball, Mexican food and alternative music … His father, Ronnie, is a rancher and horse trainer; mother, Teresa, is a middle school teacher … Lists Walt Woodard and Clay O’Brien Cooper as his rodeo idols 2019 ProRodeo Top Cowboys (continued)

Adam Gray

Tie-down Roping

Event:

2019 world standings place: 11 th 2019 Wrangler NFR standings place: 15 th 2019 Wrangler NFR earnings:

$59,712 $151,855 $1,092,705

2019 earnings: Career earnings:

Oct. 19, 1983, inWichita Falls, Texas

Born:

Seymour, Texas

Residence: Joined PRCA: World titles:

2008

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5 (2009, 2011-12, 2014, 2019)

Wrangler NFR qualifications: Wrangler NFR average titles:

1 (2012)

Texas Tech University (Lubbock), bachelor’s degree in civil engineering

Education:

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