ProRodeo Sports News - 2021 Year End Edition

2021 YEAR IN REVIEW

MARCH 7: Bull Rider Colten Fritzlan posts a score of 90.25 points aboard Dakota Rodeo’s Safety Meeting to win The American $103,000 in

MARCH

Arlington, Texas. MARCH 9: Allen Rheinheimer is named the general manager of the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo. Rheinheimer has 30 years of experience in equestrian production. MARCH 14: Clayton Sellars wins the bull riding at the 93rd Annual Arcadia All-Florida Championship Rodeo with a 90-point ride on Championship Pro Rodeo’s Excessive Force. MARCH 20: Wyatt Casper , the 2020 reserve world champion, wins the saddle bronc riding at the Southeastern

Livestock Exposition & Rodeo in Montgomery, Ala., with an 87-point ride on Championship Pro Rodeo’s Pow Wow Nights. MARCH 27: After battling injuries the previous few seasons, steer wrestler Jason Thomas, right, wins the High Desert Stampede in Redmond, Ore., in 3.8 seconds. APRIL 3: Three- time World Champion Tim O’Connell, right, ties the PRCA bareback riding world record with a 94-point ride while aboard Frontier Rodeo’s Gun Fire, winning the Riggin Rally in Weatherford, Texas. APRIL 10: Brothers-in-law Andrew Ward and Buddy Hawkins II stop the clock in 6.3 seconds in the finals to win the RAM National Circuit Finals Rodeo to earn $19,705 each.

PRCA ProRodeo photo by Clay Guardipee

DEC. 3: In a year of pandemic, PRCA leadership, through hours of hard work, manages to pull off the NFR at Globe Life

DEC. 2020

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Field in Arlington, Texas, above. DEC. 12: Stetson Wright repeats as PRCA All-Around World Champion, competing in both saddle bronc riding and bull riding at the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo. He is the youngest cowboy to be crowned All-Around World Champion in his first two seasons. DEC. 30: ProRodeo Hall of Famer Leo Camarillo , a five-time world champion, passes away. Camarillo, who won team roping titles in 1972-73, 1975 and 1983 and an all-around title in 1975, revolutionized team roping as a heeler.

APRIL

JAN. 16: Catfish Brown clocks a 7.3-second run in tie-down roping to win the Sandhills Stock Show & Rodeo in Odessa, Texas.

JANUARY

JAN. 16: Saddle bronc rider Chase Brooks locks up the Montana Circuit year-end title in saddle bronc riding and the RAM Montana Circuit Finals Rodeo. JAN. 23: Marcus Theriot earns $12,060 in team roping heading and tie-down roping to win the all-around at the RAM Southeastern Circuit Finals Rodeo. JAN. 24: ProRodeo Hall of Famer Paul Mayo, right, whose style of bareback riding revolutionized the sport, passes away at 78.

APRIL 18: Clayton Sellars earns $15,000 after winning the San Angelo (Texas) Xtreme Bulls. APRIL 23: Tuf Cooper, riding his new horse, Bro, wins the San Angelo (Texas) Rodeo, earning more than $20,000. APRIL 27: ProRodeo Hall of Fame bullfighter George Doak passes away at age 83. MAY 3: Steer wrestler Dalton Massey, taking time off from his construction job, wins the Guymon (Okla.) Pioneer Days Rodeo. MAY 15: K’s Thomson earns his first major PRCA title, winning the Redding (Calif.) Rodeo with an 87.5-point ride aboard Bridwell Pro Rodeos’ Pearl Necklace. MAY 22: T.J. Gray notches 173.5 points on two head to win the 43rd Annual George Paul Memorial Xtreme Bull Riding. MAY 22: Stetson Wright wins $23,000 at the Veater Financial Group Battle of the Best in Coarsegold, Calif. MAY 29: The Xtreme Bulls Tour heads to Alaska for the first time, where Roscoe Jarboe wins the Northernmost Xtreme Bull Riding in America.

Joe Duty photo

MAY

FEB. 6: Auctioneer Jake Kraupie wins the steer wrestling at Rodeo Rapid City (S.D.) with a 3.5-second run.

FEBRUARY

FEB. 14: Dustin Bouquet wins the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo Xtreme Bulls with an 87-point ride on 4L & Diamond S Rodeo’s Ferdinand in the finals. FEB. 17: Tie-down roper Clint Robinson wins the Dixie National Rodeo in Jackson, Miss., earning $6,099. FEB. 27: Clay Smith and Jade Corkill tie the PRCA team roping world record with a 3.3-second run to win the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo.

ProRodeo Sports News 12/17/2021

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