PRCA Media Guide - Cowboys Part 2

2018 ProRodeo Top Cowboys (continued) senior …Was contacted by college football recruiters from Kansas and Colorado State …While Dent was in high school, a bull jerked him down into a head-to-head collision; Dent shattered both cheekbones, broke his jaw in 11 places and had his mouth wired shut. His college rodeo coach was 2001 Saddle Bronc Riding World Champion Tom Reeves … Parents, Steve and Erin Dent, own a 12,000-acre ranch just north of Mullen, Neb … Started competing at age 4, receiving instruction from his father, who was a PRCA competitor … Favorite movies are“Cinderella Man”and “Lonesome Dove”and favorite food is“anything my mom makes”

Isaac Diaz

Saddle bronc riding

Event:

8 th

2018 world standings place:

$201,163 $1,170,740

2018 earnings: Career earnings:

Sept. 15, 1986, in Davie, Fla.

Born:

Desdemona, Texas

Residence: Joined PRCA: World titles:

2006

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6 (2007, 2009, 2012-13, 2015, 2018)

Wrangler NFR qualifications:

Vernon (Texas) College, associate degree;Tarleton State University (Stephenville, Texas)

Education:

Professional 2018 Highlights ★ ★ Won Round 3 and placed in three rounds to rank eighth in the average with 508.5 points on six head at the Wrangler NFR ★ ★ Won the Homestead (Fla.) Championship Rodeo ★ ★ Won the Bandera (Texas) Pro Rodeo

★ ★ Won the Grey Snow Annual Rodeo (Perkins, Okla.) ★ ★ Won the Rodeo of the Ozarks (Springdale, Ark.) ★ ★ Won Iowa’s (Sidney) Championship Rodeo ★ ★ Won the Dawson Creek (British Columbia) Stampede ★ ★ Won the Tri-State Rodeo (Fort Madison, Iowa) ★ ★ Co-champion at the RAM National Circuit Finals Rodeo (Kissimmee, Fla.) ★ ★ Co-champion at the Dixie National Rodeo (Jackson, Miss.)

Career Highlights ★ ★ 2017: Won theWichita Falls (Texas) PRCA Rodeo, the ABC Pro Rodeo (Lubbock,Texas), the Bell County PRCA Rodeo (Belton, Texas), the Los Fresnos (Texas) PRCA Rodeo, the Santa Rosa Roundup (Vernon, Texas), the Apache (Okla.) Stampede, the Eagle (Idaho) Rodeo, the Annual Fourth Celebration & PRCA Rodeo (Window Rock, Ariz.), the Cassia County Fair & Rodeo (Burley, Idaho) and the Dayton (Iowa) Championship Rodeo. Co-champion at the Bandera (Texas) Pro Rodeo and the Helotes (Texas) Festival Association Rodeo ★ ★ 2016: Did not compete ★ ★ 2015: Won Round 6 and placed in six other rounds at theWrangler NFR. Finished sixth in the world standings with $226,528.Won the Dodge City (Kan.) Roundup Rodeo, the Horse Heaven Round-Up (Kennewick,Wash.), the Austin Co. Fair & Rodeo (Bellville,Texas), the Santa Rosa Roundup (Vernon,Texas), the XIT Rodeo & Reunion (Dalhart,Texas), the Angelina County Benefit Rodeo (Lufkin,Texas), the Longview (Texas) PRCA Rodeo, the Big Spring (Texas) Cowboy Reunion & Rodeo, the Mesquite (Texas) ProRodeo Series and the RAM Texas Circuit Finals Rodeo (Waco, Texas), Co-champion at the Greeley (Colo.) Stampede, the Missoula (Mont.) Stampede, theWest of the Pecos Rodeo (Pecos, Texas), the Buc Days Pro Rodeo (Corpus Christi, Texas), the Pasadena (Texas) Livestock Show & Rodeo, the Bandera (Texas) ProRodeo and the Gladewater (Texas) Round-Up Rodeo. ★ ★ 2014: Won the Sundre (Alberta) ProRodeo; the Crooked River Roundup (Prineville, Ore.) and the Canby (Ore.) Rodeo. Co-champion at the Sisters (Ore.) Rodeo; theWill Rogers Stampede (Claremore, Okla.) and the San LuisValley Ski-Hi Stampede (Monte Vista, Colo.). Finished 20th in the world standings with $47,313 ★ ★ 2013: Placed in two rounds of the Wrangler NFR; finished 10th in the world standings with $107,388. Won the Ellensburg (Wash.) Rodeo; the Pasadena (Texas) Livestock Show & Rodeo; the PRCA Stampede Rodeo (Athens, Texas) and the Land Rush ProRodeo (Beggs, Okla.). Co-champion at the Sikeston (Mo.) Jaycee Bootheel Rodeo ★ ★ 2012: Placed in four rounds of the Wrangler NFR. Finished 10th in the world standings with $91,774. Won the Lawton (Okla.) Rangers Rodeo; the Moses Lake (Wash.) Round-Up; the Henderson County PRCA Stampede (Athens, Texas); the Bennington (Kan.) PRCA Rodeo and the Cedar City (Utah) PRCA Championship Rodeo. Co-champion at the Cody (Wyo.) Stampede; Rodeo Austin; the Old Fort Days Rodeo (Fort Smith, Ark.) and the Rodeo of the Ozarks (Springdale, Ark.) ★ ★ 2011: Co-champion at the Okeechobee (Fla.) Cattlemen’s Spring Rodeo; finished 41st in the world standings with $18,477 ★ ★ 2010: Won the Ponoka (Alberta) Stampede; theMedicine Hat (Alberta) Stampede and the Field of Dreams Stampede (La Crete, Alberta); co-champion at the Canby (Ore.) Rodeo. Suffered a fractured vertebra in a college rodeo and missed a month of the season; finished 21st in the world standings with $43,868

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