PRCA Media Guide - Cowboys Part 2

Blane Cox

Tie-down roping, steer wrestling

Events:

16 th

2018 world standings place:

$77,059 $382,603

2018 earnings: Career earnings:

June 28, 1993, in Victoria, Texas

Born:

Cameron, Texas

Residence: Joined PRCA: World titles:

2012

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1 (2016)

Wrangler NFR qualifications:

Hill College (Hillsboro, Texas)

Education:

Professional 2018 Highlights ★ ★ Won the Mineral Wells (Texas) Rodeo

★ ★ Won the Tri-State Rodeo (Fort Madison, Iowa) ★ ★ Won the Spokane (Wash.) Interstate Rodeo ★ ★ Won the Springhill (La.) PRCA Rodeo Career Highlights

★ ★ 2017: Won the Strathmore (Alberta) Stampede, Kansas (Phillipsburg) Biggest Rodeo and the Pincher Creek (Alberta) Pro Rodeo. Co-champion at the K-Days Rodeo (Edmonton, Alberta), the Leduc (Alberta) Black Gold Rodeo and the Hand Hills Lake Stampede (Craigmyle, Alberta). Finished 16th in the world standings with $78,317 ★ ★ 2016: Placed in four rounds to rank sixth at theWrangler NFR. Finished 12th in the world standings with $161,281. Won the Crosby (Texas) Fair & Rodeo and the American Royal Rodeo (Kansas City, Mo.). Co-champion at the Parker County Sheriffs Posse Frontier Days and Rodeo (Weatherford, Texas) ★ ★ 2015: Won the Greeley (Colo.) Stampede, Laramie (Wyo.) Jubilee Days Rodeo, the Panola County Cattlemen’s Rodeo (Carthage,Texas) and the Mountain Valley Stampede (Heber City, Utah). Finished 27th in the world standings with $47,683 ★ ★ 2014: Won the Los Fresnos (Texas) PRCA Rodeo; finished 95th in the world standings with $12,775 ★ ★ 2013: Won the Grimes County Fair (Navasota, Texas) and co-champion at the Mesquite (Texas) Pro Rodeo Series on July 12; finished 51st in the all-around world standings with $14,887 and 97th among tie-down ropers with $11,195 ★ ★ 2012: Finished 20th in the rookie standings with $3,746; earned an additional $1,164 on his permit Amateur Three-time qualifier for the College National Finals Rodeo (2013-15), finishing fifth in the all-around, seventh in tie- down roping and 10 th in steer wrestling in 2013. He was fifth in the tie-down roping the following year and won two rounds of the tie-down roping in 2015. Three-time qualifier for the National High School Finals Rodeo (2010-12) Personal 6-0, 185 … Single …Mother, Lisa Cox, is an accountant in College Station, Texas; father, Carl, repairs and remodels used horse trailers; older sister, Shayla Cox …Works as an equine dentist when not out on the road competing … Enjoys deer hunting … Credits his parents, both of whom have competed in rodeo, for his development as a professional … Home-schooled in grades 7-9 and for his last two years of high school; played football (outside linebacker) at Cameron Yoe High School as a sophomore … California Rodeo Salinas, the Greeley (Colo.) Stampede and the Pendleton (Ore.) Round-Up are his favorite rodeos … Favorite movie is“The Man from Snowy River”(1982) … Favorite music is prime country

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