PRCA Media Guide - Cowboys Part 2

2018 ProRodeo Top Cowboys (continued) ★ ★ 2016: (Partner Jordan Olson)Won the RAMBadlands Circuit Finals Rodeo (Minot, N.D.), the Headwaters PRCA Rodeo (Park Rapids, Minn.) and the Wahoo (Neb.) Saddle Club PRCA Rodeo. Finished 73rd in the world standings with $16,256 ★ ★ 2015: Won the RAM Badlands Circuit Final (Minot, N.D.), the Hamel (Minn.) Rodeo & Bull Ridin Bonanza and the Roughrider Days Rodeo (Dickinson, N.D.), with Jordan Olson. Finished 40th in the world standings with $25,422 ★ ★ 2014: Won the Corn Palace Stampede Rodeo (Mitchell, S.D.), with Jordan Olson, finished 73rd in the world standings with $14,820 ★ ★ 2013: (Partner Matt Kasner) Won the Rio Grande Valley Livestock Show & Rodeo (Mercedes, Texas); the Gooding (Idaho) ProRodeo, with Travis Woodard and the Wisconsin River ProRodeo (Merrill, Wis.). Co-champion at the Guadalupe County Fair & PRCA Rodeo (Seguin, Texas). Finished 32nd in the world standings with $35,591 ★ ★ 2012: (Partner Matt Kasner) Won the Days of 56 PRCA Rodeo (Ponca, Neb.); Nebraska’s Big Rodeo (Burwell, Neb.) and the Campbell County Rodeo (Herreid, S.D.). Finished 88th in the world standings with $10,141 ★ ★ 2011: (Partner Kinney Harrell) Won the Pasadena (Texas) Livestock Show & Rodeo; the State Fair of Louisiana Pro Rodeo; finished 107th in the world standings with $7,606 ★ ★ 2010: Finished 370th in the world standings with $717 ★ ★ 2008: (Partner Broc Cresta) Won the Cheyenne (Wyo.) Frontier Days. Finished 19th in the world standings with $47,834 ★ ★ 2007: (Partner Kinney Harrell) Won the Matagorda County Fair & Rodeo (Bay City, Texas); co-champion at the Flagstaff (Ariz.) Pine Country Pro Rodeo and the Livingston (Mont.) Round-Up ★ ★ 2006: (Partner Cody Hintz) Won the Wrangler ProRodeo Tour Round and average titles at the New Mexico State Fair and Rodeo (Albuquerque); the Western Montana Fair PRCA Rodeo (Missoula, Mont.) and the Days of the Old West Rodeo (Delta, Utah). Co-champion at the Brawley (Calif.) Cattle Call Rodeo, with Jade Corkill ★ ★ 2005: Qualified for his first Wrangler NFR and placed in three of 10 rounds, finishing ninth with $13,756. Finished the year 15th in the world with $53,055 ★ ★ 2004: (Partner Cody Hintz) Finished the year ranked 25th in the world standings with $51,030; won the Wrangler ProRodeo Tour Round and average titles at Red Bluff (Calif.) Round-Up and won the average title at St. Paul (Ore.) Rodeo ★ ★ 2000: Roped with Paul Tierney at the Dodge National Circuit Finals Rodeo Amateur College National Finals Rodeo team roping champion, 2001, with Jett Hillman Personal 6-4, 170 … Single … Hobbies include playing golf and cards …When not competing, he spends his time shoeing horses … Got involved in rodeo through his family in 1979, and his first competition was in 1985. Parents are Dan and Marda, who both competed in rodeo. Father is a rancher and mother is a computer technician. His brother, Jordan, is also a PRCA member, and he has one sister, Whitney … Graduated from Flandreau (S.D.) High School with 60 classmates … Favorite rodeo is in Bremerton, Wash., favorite food is steak, favorite movie is“Lonesome Dove”and favorite type of music is country … Rodeo idols are Jake Barnes and SpeedWilliams

Rocky Patterson

Steer roping

Event:

4th

2018 world standings place: 2018 NFSR standings place:

3 rd

$34,333 $97,559

2018 NFSR earnings:

2018 earnings: Career earnings:

$1,450,310

Nov. 24, 1965, in Kiowa, Kan.

Born:

Pratt, Kan.

Residence: Joined PRCA: World titles:

1992

4 (2009-2010, 2012, 2016)

0

Wrangler NFR qualifications:

24 (1994-95, 1997-2018)

NFSR qualifications: NFSR average titles:

2 (1999, 2001)

Allen County Community College (Iola, Kan.), associate degree; Oklahoma Panhandle State University (Goodwell), bachelor’s degree

Education:

Professional 2018 Highlights ★ ★ Qualified for his 24th Clem McSpadden NFSR and finished fourth in the world standings with $97,559. He placed

third in the average with a 133.9-second time on nine head. He earned $34,333 at the NFSR. ★ ★ Won the Parker County Sheriff’s Posse Frontier Days And PRCA Rodeo (Weatherford, Texas)

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