ProRodeo Sports News - 2021 Year End Edition

ALL-AROUND COWBOY WORLD CHAMPION

Stetson Wright celebrates his Round 8 bull riding win. Click Thompson photo

PRCA ProRodeo photo by Rod Connor

Stacking Gold Buckles

Brazile, the King of Cowboys, won a PRCA-record 26 world championships, including 14 all-around gold buckles. “It’s awesome, I mean Trevor is the greatest there’s ever been in the sport of rodeo,” Wright said. “So, to have my name next to him it’s pretty awesome. “I think this (all-around) title may mean a little bit more to me with winning the saddle bronc as well. For so long I wanted to follow in my dad and brothers’ footsteps as a world champion, now I can say I’ve done just that.” Wright finished the season with a PRCA regular season record of $686,513, winning the all-around title with a record $585,850, which broke Trevor Brazile’s PRCA record for most money won in a season at $518,011, which he accomplished in 2015 “I feel really good about it (breaking the record),” he said. “To break any record at all, it’s special, and especially when it comes to Trevor (Brazile) because he is the best to do it. To break one of his records, it’s pretty special.”

He was the saddle bronc riding champ as well with $343,524, edging out his brother Ryder Wright by just more than a thousand dollars. Wright had to have a bunch of the pieces of the puzzle come together in Round 10 and they did. Wright won Round 10 with a round-record tying ride of 93 points on Cervi Championship Rodeo’s Vitalix Ricky Bobby. “I didn’t know I even had a chance coming into that final round, but I guess as long as there’s still rounds there’s always a chance,” Wright said. Wright took some time to relish in his accomplishments once the Finals wrapped up, but quickly shifted his focus to the 2022 season and finding a way to build on his already impressive legacy in ProRodeo. “I’m as satisfied and happy as I can be right now with these world championships, I can hardly put it into words,” he said. “But I still have a lot more I want to accomplish in this sport. So, it’s time to get back to work, the new season starts tomorrow and I’m ready to get after it again that’s for sure.”

Stetson Wright wins third straight All-Around Title

BY TANNER BARTH S tetsonWright keeps adding gold buckles to his collection. For the second straight year, he leaves the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo presented by Teton Ridge as a two-time

“It means a lot to me because that means I put together a full year where I was doing two of the toughest and most dangerous (events) there are in this sport,” saidWright, 22. “I think it’s pretty sweet that I had so much luck and kept my body this healthy.”

Wright is the first cowboy in PRCA history to win three straight all- around titles to start his career. He also is the first cowboy to collect three all-around titles in a row since Brazile accomplished the feat from 2013-2015.

world champion. The Milford, Utah, cowboy secured his third consecutive all- around world championship and first saddle bronc riding world title in 2021, leaving a historic mark on theThomas &Mack Center.

ProRodeo Sports News 12/17/2021

ProRodeo Sports News 12/17/2021

ProRodeo.com

ProRodeo.com

24

25