PRORODEO Sports News - Sept. 9, 2026

FROM RODEO TO LAW SCHOOL BAREBACK RIDER LUKE CREASY IS TAKING HIS NEW PROFESSION HEAD ON

By Kensie Darst-Todd, Special to PRORODEO Sports News

F or years, Luke Creasy made a living eight seconds at a time. The former Canadian bareback rider built a career that included a 2006 Canadian novice bareback championship and two Turquoise Circuit Finals titles. At his peak, Creasy climbed inside the Top 10 of the PRCA World Standings while chasing the sport’s biggest goal: a qualification to the National Finals Rodeo. Creasy learned to operate under pressure with his hand wedged into a rigging, his heart rate climbing and 1,200 pounds of bucking horse beneath him. These days, the pressure looks different. Instead of an arena, Creasy is learning his way around a courtroom. The transition from PRORODEO cowboy to law stu dent wasn’t a straight line. The idea of pursuing law first surfaced while Creasy was earning his bachelor’s degree in English with a minor in secondary education from Texas Tech University in Lubbock; at the time, PRORODEO rodeo was his priority. “I kind of thought about (law school) back when I was getting an English degree, but I just wanted to rodeo at that point,” Creasy said. “Law school wasn’t something I took seriously.” By 2017, Creasy was rodeoing full-time and living in the Dallas, Texas, area when he again began considering what life might hold after competing. He started studying for

the Law School Admission Test (LSAT), but when circum stances took his son, Cash, back to New Mexico, Creasy followed. Law school could wait, but being a father could not. “Being a father definitely shaped the way I’d rodeo,” Creasy said. “I organized my rodeo schedule around mak ing sure that I prioritized time with him.” Creasy instead turned to the secondary education minor he once thought he’d never use and began teaching. He eventually earned a master’s degree in education admin istration from Eastern New Mexico University in Portales, balancing coursework with teaching, fatherhood and rodeo. As Cash grew older, fatherhood also began changing the way Creasy approached his rodeo career. He built his schedule around time with his son and sometimes took him along for the miles between rodeos. When Cash became old enough to have sports and pursuits of his own, Creasy began reconsidering where he needed to be. In 2021, after winning at Laramie (Wyo.) Jubilee Days aboard Summit Pro Rodeo’s Game Trail with an 87.5-point ride, Creasy drove home to Hobbs, N.M., to see Cash. His next rodeos were roughly 10 hours away. For once, he didn’t want to make the drive. “This seems like a good way to end,” Creasy remembered thinking. He stepped away from competition and concentrated on

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