PRCA Media Guide - Cowboys Part 2

2018 ProRodeo Top Cowboys (continued) Personal 5-11, 190 …Wife, Shelly; sons, Cole and Caden … Hobbies include golf and hunting … Graduated from Chaparral High School in Anthony, Kan … Started competing in rodeo in 1975 … Parents are Phillip and Marcella, and he has two brothers and three sisters … Favorite sports team is the Green Bay Packers … Rodeo idol is Guy Allen … Inducted into the Pratt (Kan.) Community College Athletic Hall of Fame on March 3, 2012; he served as Pratt’s rodeo coach from 1991-2000

Tyler Pearson

Steer wrestling

Event:

2018 world standings place: 6th 2018 Wrangler NFR standings place: 15 th 2018 Wrangler NFR earnings:

$75,365 $172,991 $591,412

2018 earnings: Career earnings:

March 19, 1985, in Louisville, Miss.

Born:

Louisville, Miss.

Residence: Joined PRCA: World titles:

2006

1 (2017)

3 (2013, 2017, 2018)

Wrangler NFR qualifications:

University of West Alabama, pursuing a degree in business

Education:

Professional 2018 Highlights ★ ★ Placed in four rounds at the Wrangler NFR and won Round 2 and split the win in Round 7. Finished sixth in the world standings with $172,991 and was 15th in the average with a 25.6-second time on six head ★ ★ Won the K-Days Rodeo (Edmonton, Alberta) ★ ★ Won the National Western Stock Show and Rodeo (Denver, Colo.) ★ ★ Won the Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show (Fort Worth, Texas) ★ ★ Won the St. Paul (Ore.) Rodeo ★ ★ Won the Red Bluff (Calif.) Round-Up ★ ★ Won the Tulsa (Okla.) State Fair PRCA Rodeo Career Highlights ★ ★ 2017: Placed in five rounds at theWrangler NFR, highlighted by second-place finishes in Round 1 and Round 2 and split second place in Round 7. He finished second in the average with a 45.9-second time on 10 head and won his first world title by finishing the season with $265,457. Earned $155,538 at the Wrangler NFR. Won the Wrangler Champions Challenge presented by Justin Boots (Sioux Falls, S.D.), the Lawton (Okla.) Rangers Rodeo, the La Fiesta De Los Vaqueros (Tucson, Ariz.), the Silver State Stampede (Elko, Nev.), the Hugo (Okla.) PRCA Rodeo, the Johnson County Sherriff’s Posse (Cleburne, Texas) and the Rose City Roundup (Tyler, Texas). Co-champion at the Avi River Stampede PRCA Rodeo (Fort Mohave, Ariz.) ★ ★ 2016: Finished 330th in the world standings with $1,504 ★ ★ 2015: Won the Angelina County Benefit Rodeo (Lufkin, Texas), the Southeastern Pro Rodeo (Ocala, Fla.) and the Moses Lake (Wash.) Round-Up. Co-champion at the Inter-State Rodeo (Coffeyville, Kan.). Finished 18th in the world standings with $56,684 ★ ★ 2014: Won the Arcadia (Fla.) All-Florida Championship Rodeo and the Red Desert Roundup (Rock Springs, Wyo.) Won the all-around and steer wrestling at the Okeechobee (Fla.) Cattlemen’s Spring Rodeo and the Cotton Blossom Roundup (Nashville, Ga.). Finished 30th in the world standings with $34,875 ★ ★ 2013: Placed second in Round 6 of theWrangler National Finals Rodeo with a time of 3.6 seconds; finished fourth in the average and 12th in the world standings with season earnings of $100,266. Won the Pendleton (Ore.) Round-Up; the Days of‘47 Rodeo (Salt Lake City, Utah) and the Arcadia (Fla.) All-Florida Championship Rodeo.Won the all-around at the Rotary Classic Rodeo (Starkville, Miss.). Co-champion at the Magic Valley Stampede (Filer, Idaho) and Kansas’Biggest Rodeo (Phillipsburg, Kan.) ★ ★ 2012: Won the Rotary Classic Rodeo (Starkville, Miss.); the Santa Rosa Round Up (Vernon, Texas) and the Poteau (Okla.) Frontier Rodeo. Co-champion at the Central Wyoming Fair & PRCA Rodeo (Casper, Wyo.); the Southern Miss Coca-Cola Classic Rodeo (Hattiesburg, Miss.) and the Leesville (La.) Lions Club Rodeo. Finished 52nd in the world standings with $21,628 ★ ★ 2011: Won the Buckin’On The River (Savannah, Tenn.); finished 131st in the world standings with $7,232 ★ ★ 2010: Won the Rodeo of the Mid-South (Southaven, Miss.); finished 285th in the world standings with $2,305 ★ ★ 2009: Won the Neshoba County Fair Rodeo (Philadelphia, Miss.); the Amicus Club PRCA Rodeo (Alexandria, La.); the Rotary Classic PRCA Rodeo (Starkville, Miss.); the Crosby (Texas) Fair & Rodeo; the SouthernMississippi Coca-Cola Classic Rodeo (Hattiesburg, Miss.); theWashington Parish Free Fair Rodeo (Franklinton, La.); the Greater Gulf State ★ ★ Co-champion at the Fiesta Days Rodeo (Spanish Fork, Utah) ★ ★ Co-champion at the Snake River Stampede (Nampa, Idaho) ★ ★ Co-champion at the Lawton (Okla.) Rangers Rodeo

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