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COWBOY GRILLE WITH KENSIE DARST-TODD BRYCE JENSEN B ryce Jensen, 20, of Huntsville, Texas, closed the 2025 season sixth in the PRCA | Bill Fick Ford World Standings and the Resistol Rookie Bull

the rodeo business right now? Jensen: I look up to Joe Beaver for his mentality. For riding style, I look up to Sage Kimzey for how he rides. What’s one rodeo you want to win before your career is over? Jensen: RodeoHouston, Calgary Stampede or both. What’s your favorite movie? Jensen: Young Guns. What’s your go-to restaurant before or after a rodeo? Jensen: Pepperoni pizza or Subway. What’s the first vehicle you drove? Jensen: An old single-cab

Rider of the Year, after qualifying for the Wrangler Na tional Finals Rodeo. He finished the year with $367,533 in season earnings. Jensen wasted no time carrying that momentum into 2026, opening his campaign with a title at the Waller County Fair & Rodeo in Hempstead, Texas, where an 85-point ride earned him $4,694. He continued his early-season surge by capturing the Boot Barn Texas Circuit Finals Rodeo average championship in Waco at 256.5 points on three head. How’d you get your start in rodeo? Jensen: I grew up in a rodeo family. I started

out in timed events, and then going into the seventh grade I started riding bulls and I liked it a lot more than the timed events side of rodeo. When did you know you could make a career out of rodeo? Jensen: I worked a summer job one time, and I didn’t like working for other people.

standard Nissan at my grandpa’s. Do you have a favorite can dy? Jensen: Cookies and Cream Hershey bar. What do you enjoy doing when you’re not rodeo ing? Jensen: I like hunting. Hog hunting, deer hunting and duck hunting. What’s your favorite holiday? Jensen: Christmas

So I figured that I could try my best to ride bulls and be the best I could with it. Why did you decide bull riding would be your event? Jensen : Well, in the timed events, I didn’t like practic ing. It just wasn’t fun for me. The adrenaline wasn’t there and whenever I started

and Easter. I really like Easter because it’s close to my birthday. What type of music do you like listening to? Jensen: A bit of everything from rock and roll, rap, a little bit of country, it just depends. I do like Kickstart My Heart by Mötley Crüe.

getting on steers and bulls, the adrenaline was there. Whether it was for money or not, I like the practice, I like the rodeos and I like everything about bull riding. What do you hope to learn this season?

Jensen: I hope to learn how to do interviews better and just keep learning how to ride bulls to the best of my ability. Who’s someone you look up to in

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