PRCA Media Guide - Cowboys Part 2

2018 ProRodeo Top Cowboys (continued)

Eli Vastbinder

Bull riding and team roping header

Event:

2018 world standings place: 9th 2018 Wrangler NFR standings place: 10 th 2018 Wrangler NFR earnings:

$78,254 $173,371 $285,599

2018 earnings: Career earnings:

April 17, 1991, in Dayton, Ohio

Born:

Athens, Texas

Residence: Joined PRCA: World titles:

2013

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1 (2018)

Wrangler NFR qualifications:

Professional 2018 Highlights ★ ★ Won Rounds 5 and 9 and placed in three more to take 10th in the average at theWrangler NFR ★ ★ Won the Kitsap Stampede (Bremerton, Wash.)

★ ★ Won the NE Mississippi Championship Rodeo (Tupelo, Miss.) ★ ★ Won the Bull Riding Extreme Tour event (West Plains, Mo.)

★ ★ Won Nebraska’s (Burwell) Big Rodeo ★ ★ Won the Longview (Texas) PRCA Rodeo ★ ★ Won the Lexington (Ky.) Rodeo ★ ★ 2017: Took second place at the 2017 All American in Waco, Texas; Placed second in the Division 1 Xtreme Bulls event at Fort Mohave, Ariz. Finished the season 26th in the world standings with $54,378 Awards Won North Carolina state bull riding and all-around championships in 2009. Personal 5-11, 170 …Wife, Paige … Father, Mike, truck driver; mother, April, dental hygienist; parents live in Dayton, Ohio; His mom’s side of family in Dayton, Ohio, rodeoed and that’s howVastbinder got his start.

J.R. Vezain

Bareback riding, saddle bronc riding, bull riding

Events:

16 th

2018 world standings place:

$83,376 $941,059

2018 earnings: Career earnings:

Feb. 22, 1992 Cowley, Wyo.

Born:

Residence: Joined PRCA: World titles:

2011

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6 (2012-14, 2016-2018)

Wrangler NFR qualifications:

Vernon (Texas) College, Casper (Wyo.) College

Education:

Professional 2018 Highlights

★ ★ Qualified for the Wrangler NFR but could not compete due to injury ★ ★ Won the Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show (Fort Worth, Texas) ★ ★ Won the West Texas (Abilene) Fair & Rodeo ★ ★ Won the Rodeo Corpus Christi (Texas) ★ ★ Won the RAM Montana (Great Falls) Pro Rodeo Circuit Finals ★ ★ Won the Grand Island (Neb.) Roundup ★ ★ Won the Teepee Creek (Alberta) Stampede

★ ★ Won the Eastern Montana (Miles City) Fair Rodeo ★ ★ Won the Gem State Stampede (Coeur D Alene, Idaho)

Career Highlights ★ ★ 2017: Finished fourth in the world standings with $220,831. Split the win in Round 6 and placed in six rounds to place third in average atWrangler NFR.Won K-Days Rodeo (Edmonton, Alberta), the Last Chance Stampede (Helena,

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