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2022 WRANGLER NFR ANNOUNCERS

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Randy Corley Randy Corley, who was inducted into the ProRodeo Hall of Fame in 2017, made his 22nd NFR appearance at the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo in 2022. Corley has been selected PRCA Announcer of the Year 12 times (1984, 1990-96, 1998, 2003 and 2011 and 2015). He has been an announcer at the National Finals Rodeo 22 times, including 12 of the last 13 years. Corley has been a member of the PRCA since 1980. He’s done almost every big rodeo including numerous years in San Antonio. In 2005, he and his daughter Amanda became the first father-daughter tandem to work the NFR, as an announcer and timer. Wayne Brooks Wayne Brooks has been an announcer at the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo for nine of the last 10 years and in 2022 Brooks made his 10th appearance at the NFR. He is a five-time PRCA Announcer of the Year in 2005, 2010, 2013-14 and 2016. “(Announcing the NFR) is the pinnacle of our game to stand right there and witness history being made,”said Brooks, who has been a PRCA member since 1994. “I mean really that is the whole thing in a nutshell, just to be right there present in mind and body to witness the emotion, to see those guys and girls get so emotional with those world titles. Just to be present in that moment in time is a big deal for me.”

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Brooks said he doesn’t change his approach whether he’s announcing about world champions at the NFR or weekend warriors in the circuit system. “Absolutely my mindset is the same,” Brooks said. “I try just as hard at every event I go to in order to make it as good as I can possibly make it. I was never a great competitor when I was riding bareback horses, so whenever I’m at an event where I have some guys that may not have the accolades of a lot of our big veterans and our champions, I try and make them feel as important as anybody else going down the trail.”

Roger Mooney In 2020 rodeo announcer Roger Mooney worked his fourth Wrangler NFR (his first at Globe Life Field, in Arlington, Texas). “I truly believe that this rodeo (the NFR) is the greatest rodeo on the planet, and there’s a reason for that,” he told ProRodeo Sports News in 2018. “It’s the best cowboys, it’s in the city of entertainment, it’s the greatest fans in the world, and the most beautiful people in rodeo come to Las Vegas. In 2000 and 2004, the Georgia native served as an alternate, but in 2018 when Boyd Polhamus stepped down from announcing (at the Finals) to take over for Shawn Davis, that opened a third spot. He was selected again in 2020; Mooney has been a professional rodeo announcer for more than 30 years.

Roger Mooney and Randy Corley share the mic in Las Vegas during the 2022 Wrangler National Finals

Rodeo presented by Teton Ridge. -PRCA ProRodeo photo by Phil Doyle

The 54-year-old and his wife Ashley have a son, Cash, and a daughter, Morgan. Mooney said he puts in hundreds of hours of preparation to announce at the NFR. “It’s just amazing,” he said. “The last time, I think I was going 20-21 hours a day. You get a little nap and then you’re back out. And if things don’t go well, it could be 24 hours a day.”

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