PRORODEO Sports News - June 6, 2025

COWBOY GRILLE

HOLDEN MYERS

By Kensie Darst-Todd

Holden Myers, 25, from Van, Texas, is currently in the top 3 of the PRCA | Bill Fick Ford World Standings in steer wres tling and has made strides in his 2025 season. He began his 2025 season with a

3.4-second win at Fort Bend County Fair & Rodeo in Rosenberg, Texas, earning $2,429. In March, he followed up with a secured victory in the third round at RodeoHouston with a payout of $3,000. Most recently, Myers won the average at the Guymon (Okla.) Pioneer Days Rodeo with 13.0 seconds on three head, earning a payout of $3,774.

How’d you get your start in rodeo? I’m a fourth-generation cowboy - my great enough. When did you know you could make a career out of rodeo? I always kind of thought I could, but this year has kind of proved to me that I actually can and hopefully I can keep it going. Why did you decide that steer wrestling would be your event? Growing up, I roped calves and bulldogged, but whenever I got in college, I knew steer wrestling was what I wanted to do. I just like it more and I like the camaraderie more in steer wrestling over tie-down roping. grandfather rode saddle broncs, my grandfather (Butch) was a world champion (1980) and my dad (Rope) was a world champion steer wrestler (2001). I got started riding horses when I was a kid and started bulldogging as soon as I was big

Deviedntys ogurocwominpgetuepi?n any other rodeo I team roped some, too, but mostly just roped calves and steer wrestled. What do you hope to learn during your Resistol Rookie season? Get more experience, because for this summer run we’re about to go on, I’ve only been to may be a third of the rodeos that we’re planning on going to. I'm looking forward to being able to experience all the different setups and see all the different places. Wrodheoo’sbusosimneeossneriyghout nloowok?up to in the My dad or my uncle, Cash Myers, for advice and talk to them about stuff. They’ve been there and done that, so they always got something pretty positive to say.

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