2020 Media Guide - PRORODEO Cowboys

★ 2004: Finished 17th in the worldwith $40,333 ★ 2003: Won the title (withTeeWoolman) at NewMexico State Fair and Rodeo (Albuquerque); shared Round 8 title with 4.0-second run atWrangler NFR ★ 2002: (PartnerWadeWheatley)Won theTour Championships (Dallas) and set record for most money won at $35,130 each; tied NFR team roping arena recordwith a 3.8 second run; won Grand National Rodeo (San Francisco),WallaWalla (Wash.) Fair & Frontier Days Rodeo, Pendleton (Ore.) Round-Up and NewMexico State Fair & Rodeo (Albuquerque); finished second in the world ★ 2001: Won (withWadeWheatley) Lewiston (Idaho) Round-Up, Snake River Stampede (Nampa, Idaho) and Ellensburg (Wash.) Rodeo; finished 9th in the world standings ★ 2000: (PartnerWadeWheatley)Won theWinterTour Finale (LasVegas); the Cody (Wyo.) Stampede; the Red Bluff (Calif.) Roundup and the Southwestern International Livestock Exposition (El Paso,Texas). Co-champion at the Snake River Stampede (Nampa, Idaho).Won the all-around at the Chief Joseph Days Rodeo (Joseph, Ore.). Finished fifth in the team roping world standings with $136,719 ★ 1998: (Partner Jason Stewart) Finished 7th at the NFR. Finished 15th in the world standings with $53, 146 ★ 1997: (PartnerWalt Rodman) Finished 6th at the NFR. Finished 8th in the world standings with $57,139 Awards California Circuit Team Roping Rookie of the Year; owner of 2000 AQHA Team Roping Heeling Horse of the Year Nifty Jacks Back (Dinero). PRCA | Resistol Team Roping Rookie of the Year, 1997 Personal 6-3, 225 …Wife, Leigh, daughters, Shayla and Georgia; sons, Sutton and Blevins … Hobbies include golfing, ranching, branding calves, and shooting squirrels … Parents are Jim and Sharyn; brothers, Blain and Brent. Brent was a six-time NFR qualifier as a team roper and cousin, Dan Erickson, was a two-time Linderman Award winner … Graduated from Denair (Calif.) High School … Enjoys riding colts and golfing

Jake Long

Team Roping (Heeling)

Event:

2019 world standings place: 10 th 2019 Wrangler NFR standings place: 13 th 2019 Wrangler NFR earnings:

$44,058 $150,954 $1,697,224

2019 earnings: Career earnings:

March 30, 1984, in Coffeyville, Kan.

Born:

Coffeyville, Kan.

Residence: Joined PRCA: World titles:

2003

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9 (2010-12, 2014-19)

Wrangler NFR qualifications:

Northwestern Oklahoma State, degree in agricultural business

Education:

Professional 2019 Highlights – Partner Clay Smith ★ Placed in two rounds to rank 13th in the average with 36.9 seconds on five head at the Wrangler NFR with Clay Tryan

PRORODEO COWBOYS

★ Won the RAM National Circuit Finals Rodeo (Kissimmee, Fla.) ★ Won the National Western Stock Show and Rodeo (Denver, Colo.)

★ Won the Texas (Waco) Circuit Finals Rodeo ★ Won the Ropin Dreams (Jourdanton, Texas) ★ Won the Sikeston (Mo.) Jaycee Bootheel Rodeo ★ Won the Black Hills Roundup (Belle Fourche, S.D.) ★ Co-champion at the Lewiston (Idaho) Roundup

Career Highlights ★ 2018: (Partner Luke Brown) Finished eighth in the world standings with $154,237. Placed 12th in the average at the Wrangler NFR, earning $71,135. Placed in four rounds. Split the win in Round 7.Won theWorld’s Oldest Rodeo (Prescott, Ariz.), the Caldwell (Idaho) Night Rodeo and theWyoming (Douglas) State Fair & Rodeo ★ 2017: Finished 4th in the world standings with $208,274. Placed 8th at theWrangler NFR with $105,192. Placed in five rounds.Won Round 3 and split the win in Rounds 4 and 8.Won the Gladewater (Texas) Round-Up Rodeo, the Four States Fair & Rodeo (Texarkana, Ark.) and the Kit Carson County Fair & Rodeo (Burlington, Colo.). Co-champion at the Santa Maria (Calif.) Elks Rodeo ★ 2016: (Partner Luke Brown)Won rounds 2 and 6 and placed in six rounds to rank sixth at theWrangler NFR. Finished 3rd in the world standings with $225,091.Won the SheridanWYO Rodeo, theWrangler Champions Challenge presented by Justin Boots (Rapid City, S.D.), the Horse Heaven Round-upWranglers Champions Challenge presented by Justin Boots

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