ProRodeo Sports News - 2021 Year End Edition

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JUNE 6: Reigning Bareback Riding World Champion Kaycee Feild, above , wins the Riggin Rally Xtreme Broncs in Darby, Mont.

JUNE

JUNE 11: Maverick Potter wins the Woodward (Okla.) Elks Rodeo with an 86.5-point ride on Beutler & Son Rodeo’s Fake Friend. JUNE 17: Clayton Sellars does it again, winning his second Xtreme Bulls Division 1 event of the season, this time at the Reno (Nev.) Rodeo Xtreme Bulls. He scoops up $21,018. JUNE 26: J.B. Mauney wins the Reno (Nev.) Rodeo for the first time, earning $20,920 in the bull riding.

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AUG. 1: Australian bull rider Ky Hamilton, above, wins Cheyenne (Wyo.) Frontier Days in front of a capacity crowd of 19,000, earning $10,104.

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AUG. 3: Rookie Creek Young wins the Lea County PRCA Rodeo Xtreme Bulls in Lovington, N.M., picking up $10,247 and helping solidify an NFR berth. AUG. 10: As PRCA CEO George Taylor resigns, Chief Operating Officer and Director of Rodeo Administration Tom Glause steps in as interim CEO. AUG. 26: Dawson Hay wins the PRCA Xtreme Broncs Tour after locking it up with a victory at the PRCA Xtreme Broncs Tour Finale. Hay finishes with $62,254 in the Xtreme Broncs Tour standings.

JULY 5: When the dust settles from Cowboy

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Christmas, Tuf Cooper, right, is standing as the biggest earner. Cooper earns $31,255 over the Fourth of July run. JULY 17: After a year delay, the 2020 ProRodeo Hall of Fame Class is inducted. The class includes Cody Ohl, Calgary Stampede’s Grated Coconut, Butch Kirby, Jim Sutton Jr., Sunni Deb Backstrom, Randy Witte, the Ellensburg Rodeo and Martha Josey.

SEPT. 6: Steer wrestler Cody Devers wins $5,355 at the Ellensburg (Wash.) Rodeo, bumping him from 19th in the world

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standings to 15th, qualifying for his first Wrangler NFR. SEPT. 18: Stetson Wright took home three titles at the Pendleton (Ore.) Round-Up, winning the saddle bronc riding, bull riding and all-around honors. The windfall totaled $22,476, which

broke Brazile’s Pendleton record of $20,205 that was set in 2012. Wright also became the first cowboy since Lewis Feild in 1989 to win three events. SEPT. 26: Bull rider Clayton Sellars wins the ProRodeo Tour Finale in Salinas, Calif., taking home $17,971 and bumping him up to third place in the world standings.

JULY 17: Steer wrestler Don Payne cashes in for $14,342 by winning the Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo in Colorado Springs, Colo. JULY 18: Canadian Jordan Hansen wins the bull riding at the prestigious Calgary Stampede, earning $59,875. JULY 20: Sage Kimzey splits the win at the Spanish Fork (Utah) Fiesta Days Xtreme Bulls to become the all-time leader in Division 1 Xtreme Bulls victories with nine. JULY 31: Dawson Hay ties the PRCA world record with a 95-point saddle bronc ride aboard Calgary Stampede’s Wild Cherry at the Hardgrass Bronc Match in Pollockville, Alberta. PRCA ProRodeo photo by Alaina Stangle

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OCT. 8: Tom Glause, right, named PRCA

OCTOBER

Chief Executive Officer.

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