ProRodeo Sports News | 2020 Year-End Edition | Dec.18, 2020

YEAR IN REVIEW MAY 2020

PRCA | RAM WORLD STANDINGS LEADERS AS OF MAY 26, 2020 Bareback Riding Tim O’Connell, $73,306 Steer Wrestling Matt Reeves, $79,429 Team Roping Heading Luke Brown, $67,825 Team Roping Heeling Joseph Harrison, $60,360 Saddle Bronc Riding Wyatt Casper, $119,645 Tie-down Roping Shad Mayfield, $132,452 Steer Roping Trevor Brazile, $21,180 Bull Riding Sage Kimzey, $67,463

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Cave Creek (Ariz.) Rodeo Days, May 22-24, was the first PRCA- sanctioned rodeo since the COVID-19 pandemic halted rodeos in March. Shad Mayfield was the all-around cowboy at the rodeo after earning $1,751, tie-down roping and team roping. Fernando Sam-Sin photo

The Cowboy Channel and the PRCA launch the PRCA on The Cowboy Channel Plus App , which brings the most exciting ProRodeo streaming to fans’ fingertips. The new and exciting app also allows subscribers to stream The Cowboy Channel’s Western lifestyle content on any device, anytime, anywhere. As the world’s destination for all things ProRodeo, the PRCA on The Cowboy Channel Plus App keeps fans up-to-date with their favorite PRCA rodeos and athletes, as well as providing behind-the-scenes access to livestreamed and on-demand PRCA rodeo events from around the country. 15

Reigning All-Around World Champion Stetson Wright has surgery in St.

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George, Utah, to take plates out of his face that were put in after he broke his jaw following a ride at the Dodge City (Kan.) Roundup Rodeo, July 31, 2019.

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Star team roping heeler Junior Nogueira , who has placed second in the PRCA | RAM World Standings the

last four seasons, takes on a new roping partner. Nogueira teams up with header Cody Snow , who qualified for the previous four Wrangler National Finals Rodeos and won the team roping average in 2019. Nogueira lives in Lipan, Texas, and Snow lives in Stephenville, 25 minutes away . ProRodeo Sports News reported in April that Nogueira’s former partner Kaleb Driggers was teaming up with Cory Petska , the 2017 PRCA world champion heeler. Snow had been roping with Paul Eaves.

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Toby Collins , 27, is one of two bull riders to make the whistle in Round 1 and the only cowboy to make a qualified ride in Round 3 for a $10,469 boost in the world standings at the Super Series Finish in Fort Worth. Joe Duty photo

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