PRCA Media Guide - Cowboys Part 2

Amateur Reserve bull riding champion in the Central Plains Region of the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association, 2010; qualified for the College National Finals Rodeo (Casper, Wyo.), 2009-10 Personal 5-10, 150 …wife, Kate; daughter, McKenna Mae (born, Feb. 14, 2018) … Father, John, is a ranch foreman; mother, Dee, is a homemaker; sisters, Tracy Kastner and Tara Hatfield … Dad used to ride saddle broncs as an amateur … Enjoys fishing … Graduated from Dickson (Okla.) High School … Started riding calves when he was 5 and participated in junior and amateur rodeos through high school … Favorite rodeo is the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo … Favorite film is the comedy“Run, Ronnie”… Favorite food is steak

Quinn Kesler

Team roping (heeling)

Event:

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

$52,308 $109,637 $362,334

2018 earnings: Career earnings:

April 24, 1993, in Salt Lake City, Utah

Born:

Holden, Utah

Residence: Joined PRCA: World titles:

2015

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2 (2016, 2018)

Wrangler NFR qualifications:

Professional 2018 Highlights – Partner Rhen Richard ★ ★ Finished 15th in the world standings with $109,637. Placed sixth in the average at the Wrangler NFR, earning $52,308. Placed in three rounds ★ ★ Won the Pony Express Rodeo (Eagle Mountain, Utah) ★ ★ Meridian (Idaho) Lions Rodeo ★ ★ Won the Summitt County Fair & Rodeo (Coalville, Utah) Career Highlights ★ ★ 2017: (Partner Rhett Anderson) Finished 44th in the world standings with $31,850.Won the Meridian (Idaho) Lions Rodeo, the Jerome (Idaho) County Fair and Rodeo and the Golden Spike Rodeo (Tremonton, Utah) ★ ★ 2016: (Partner Matt Sherwood) Won Round 7, co-champion of Round 3, and placed in three rounds to rank eighth at the Wrangler NFR. Won the Parada Del Sol (Scottsdale, Ariz.) and the Wrangler Champion Challenge presented by Justin Boots (Spanish Fork, Utah). Co-champion at the Annual Fourth of July & PRCA Rodeo (Window Rock, Ariz.). Finished eighth in the world standings with $145,907 ★ ★ 2015: (Partner Matt Sherwood) Won the Snake River Stampede (Nampa, Idaho), the Western Stampede (West Jordan, Utah) and the Spokane (Wash.) Interstate Rodeo. Finished second at the Fort Worth (Texas) Stock Show & Rodeo. Finished third at California Rodeo Salinas. Won the National Western Stock Show and Rodeo Qualifier (Denver). Finished 16th in the world standings with $65,840 ★ ★ 2011: (Partner Taylor Winn) Co-champion at the Fort Herriman Memorial PRCA Rodeo (Herriman, Utah) and won the Lincoln County Fair Rodeo (Afton, Wyo.); earned $9,212 on his permit Amateur Three-time Utah state high school champion in team roping (2009, with Jared Penrod; 2010-11 with Taylor Winn) and also won the 2011 tie-down roping championship. Four-time qualifier for the National High School Finals Rodeo Personal 5-7, 165 …Wife, Jessie (married Aug. 8, 2015 in Salt Lake City) … Father, Greg, and step-mother, Kaylynn, operate a ranch in Holden, Utah; mother, Allyson Baker, is a computer consultant; brother, Landon; sisters, Camille, Nicole, Lindsay and Hailey … Started roping off a horse when he was 6 and started competing at 9 … Homeschooled from third grade to high school graduation … After a year of competing on his permit, Kesler served two years on a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), working in Nebraska and Sioux City, Iowa, from August 2012 to August 2014 … Enjoys working on the family’s ranch and training horses … Favorite movie is“The Man from Snowy River”(1982)

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