ProRodeo Sports News - January 10, 2020

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Crawley battling two nagging leg injuries

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$2.97M The combined amount of official prize money earned by the 2019 world champions – all-around champ Stetson Wright ($297,923); bareback rider Clayton Biglow ($425,823); steer wrestler Ty Erickson ($234,491); team roping header Clay Smith ($268,820); team roping heeler Wesley Thorp ($249,181); saddle bronc rider Zeke Thurston ($347,056); tie-down roper Haven Meged ($246,014); barrel racer Haley Kinsel ($290,020); bull rider Sage Kimzey ($480,797); and steer roper Trevor Brazile ($128,552). $243K The amount of money, $243,891, earned by bareback rider Clayton Biglow at the 2019 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo, which established the record for most money won by a contestant in a single event at the Wrangler NFR – not counting ground money. Biglow won the world championship, Wrangler NFR average and RAM Top Gun Award in Las Vegas. The previous top amount earned in a single event at the Wrangler NFR was $234,054 by bareback rider Steven Peebles while winning the 2015 world championship.

Veteran saddle bronc rider Jacobs Crawley is trying to shake off the injury bug. The 2015 PRCA world champion is dealing with a nagging strained quadriceps and a knee injury on his left leg. “On the outside of my knee, I did something at the NFR (Dec. 6, Round 2),” said Crawley, 31. “I thought it was something

Crawley finished third in the

round and earned $15,654.

“I just got off the horse, and my leg was swollen up on the outside of my knee,” Crawley said. “I didn’t remember hitting anything, and it still has a big knot on the left side of my knee. (Justin Sportsmedicine) looked at it. It is just painful when I bend my leg back. I just iced it during the NFR, and

Crawley

small and I was icing it. It’s still swollen from the NFR. I was extremely sore at the Texas Circuit Finals (Jan. 2-4, in Waco). “I was trying to grit through it and do my best, and I’m going to take two weeks off now. I think with two more weeks off and only going to one or two (rodeos) a weekend it should heal up. It’s nothing major, it’s just painful when I ride.” Crawley initially injured his quads and left knee following his 84.5-point ride on Beutler & Son Rodeo’s Nutrena’s Hammer Stone in Round 2 at the Wrangler NFR at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas.

I thought it would heal up with a couple weeks off before the Texas Circuit Finals and it still hurt, so I’m going to take a couple more weeks off.” Crawley finished ninth in the 2019 PRCA | RAM World Standings with $191,935. He finished fifth in the Wrangler NFR average and earned $70,923 in Vegas. The Boerne, Texas, native is a nine-time qualifier for the Wrangler NFR – 2011-19. Crawley expects to return to action Jan. 19 at the National Western Stock Show & Rodeo in Denver. “Injuries are just part of what we do,” Crawley said.

Meged, Erickson feted back home in Montana

PRCA 2019 world champions Haven Meged (tie-down roping) and Ty Erickson (steer wrestling) were recently named MontanaSports. com 2019 co-male athletes of the year. Meged had a memorable rookie season, winning the world championship, the PRCA | Resistol Rookie of the Year award and the

Wrangler NFR average title.

The 21-year-old finished the season with $246,013 and earned $126,135 at the Wrangler NFR. Erickson, meanwhile, finished atop the 2019 PRCA | RAM World Standings with $234,491 to claim his first world title. Erickson earned $88,410 at the 2019 Wrangler NFR.

TV coverage of Fort Worth and Denver rodeos

The Cowboy Channel will broadcast the final day of the Division 1 Xtreme Bulls event in Fort Worth, Texas, Jan. 22 at 8:30 p.m. (ET). The Fort Worth event is Jan. 21-22 and

is the first Division 1 Xtreme Bulls event of 2020. On Jan. 26, the finals of the National Western Stock Show and Rodeo in Denver will air live at 4 p.m. (ET).

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