ProRodeo Sports News - December 16, 2022

2022 YEAR IN REVIEW

Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo, earning $36,750. Wright earned $25,750 in saddle bronc riding and $11,000 in bull riding.

MARCH 13 – Blue Stone, who won PRCA Bull Riding World Championships in 2001 and 2002, passed away March 13 in Willard, Utah. He was 43.

MARCH

For more on Blue Stone, please see the Passages section. MARCH 20 – Saddle bronc rider Sage Newman won the coveted RodeoHouston title with a 93-point ride on Pete Carr Pro Rodeo’s Billie in the Championship Shootout at NRG Stadium and pocketed $57,500 at the rodeo. Newman finished first in the regular season with a saddle bronc regular-season record of $253,191.

APRIL 9 – Saddle bronc rider Bud Munroe, a ProRodeo Hall of Famer, passed away at Ascension Providence Hospital in Waco, Texas. He was 70. For

APRIL

more on Bud Munroe, please see our Passages section. APRIL 12 – Trevor

Brazile, right with Bobby Mote, the King of PRCA Cowboys with 26 world championships, was announced as part of the 2022 induction class for the ProRodeo Hall of Fame. Brazile is joined by four-time PRCA World Champion Bareback Rider Bobby Mote (2002, 2007, 2009-2010), World Champion Team Roper

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DEC. 11 – Stetson Wright, above, finished the season with a PRCA regular season record of $686,513. He won the all-around title with a record $585,850. He was the saddle bronc riding champ with $343,524. DEC. 16 – ProRodeo Hall of Fame tie-down roper Barry Burk passed away Dec. 16. He was 79. Burk, who was inducted into the ProRodeo Hall of Fame in 1994, qualified for the National Finals Rodeo 18 times. DEC. 2021

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JAN. 9 – ProRodeo Hall of Fame bull rider Jerome Robinson passed away. He was 74. For more information on Jerome’s contributions to the PRCA, please see the Passages section. JAN. 19 – Stetson Wright won his first career PRCA Division 1 Xtreme Bulls event with 178.5 points on two head at the SWELS – Division 1 Xtreme Bulls event Wednesday night at Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas. Wright earned $19,654 for his 16 seconds of work. He

JANUARY

Bobby Harris (1991), stock contractor, the late Jake Beutler, rodeo clown Rick Young, four-time PRCA Saddle Bronc Horse of the Year Frontier Rodeo’s Medicine Woman, rodeo notable Mel Potter, world champion steer wrestler Roy Duvall’s horse Whiskey and barrel racer Ardith Bruce and WPRA notable Cindy Rosser.

MAY 1 – For the second year in a row, Cole Patterson had a fabulous final day of the NCFSR to walk away as the champion. Patterson had an electric 8.4-second run in the four-man, sudden-death finals to capture the win. Patterson’s time tied the NCFSR record with Reo Lohse, who had an 8.4-second run in 2019. MAY 7 – No cowboy has won more PRCA

MAY

Robinson

and Josh Frost were the only cowboys to cover two bulls during the two-day event, Jan. 18-19. Frost finished with 172.5 points on two head. JAN. 23 – Bareback rider Cole Franks was the top money earner at the 2022 National Western Stock Show & Rodeo in Denver at the Denver Coliseum. Franks took home $15,844.

Patterson

Division 1 Xtreme Bulls events than Sage Kimzey. He upped that total to 10 for his career by winning the Cactus Jack Division 1 Xtreme Bull Riding May 7 in Uvalde, Texas. MAY 17 – Powder River Rodeo’s SweetPro’s Bruiser, a superstar award-winning bull in the PRCA, passed away May 17 at age 11. MAY 17 – Jeff Copenhaver, the 1975 PRCA World Champion Tie Down Roper, and an instrumental figure in the cowboy ministry, passed away May 17 in Granbury, Texas. He was 73. For more on Jeff Copenhaver, please see the Passages section. MAY 28 – The second annual Northern Most Xtreme Bull Riding in America in Palmer, Alaska, was a gold rush for Tyler Bingham. The Howell, Utah, cowboy won the two-head average with 170 points at the Division 1 Xtreme Bulls event and then moments later he had a 92.5-point ride on Outlawbuckers Crazy Eyes, the bounty bull, to win $20,000 of Bering Sea gold.

FEB. 5 – ProRodeo legend Kaycee Feild, coming off his sixth PRCA Bareback Riding World Championship in December

FEBRUARY

in Las Vegas, didn’t miss a beat jumping into the 2022 season. In his first rodeo of the new year Feild went to Fort Worth (Texas) and continued his dominance at the Stock Show and Rodeo. He claimed his fourth FWSSR title. FEB. 26 – Seven-time PRCA World Champion Bull Rider Sage Kimzey matched up with Andrews Rodeo’s Ol’ Son. His eight second cover was good enough for 92 points and ultimately the win at the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo. FEB. 26 – Stetson Wright was the top money earner at the San

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