ProRodeo Sports News - January 5, 2024

PRCA HISTORY

Brazile/Graves won at the National Western Stock Show & Rodeo in 2014 TRACY RENCK W ith the calendar turning to 2024, what a better time to click the rewind button to take a trip down memory lane. With the National Western Stock Show Brazile, who had a PRCA-record 19 world championships at the time, split up with Patrick Smith following the 2013 season. Brazile and Smith had been team roping partners for seven years, and they won the 2010 header and heeler PRCA World Championships. Brazile also captured the Denver all around cowboy title, earning $7,558 in tie down roping and team roping. “It feels great to come in here and get a big Mile High City Rewind Greg Westfall photo Heeler Travis Graves, left, and header Trevor Brazile compete in the finals at the 2014 National Western Stock Show and Rodeo in Denver. They won the average with 16.3 seconds on three head.

and Rodeo in Denver taking place Jan. 11-21, let’s click the rewind button to 2014 in the Mile High City. This visit takes place at the 2014 National Western Stock Show and Rodeo in Denver. There was some big news coming out of the rodeo – especially in team roping. Changing team roping partners is common in the PRCA, but new partners having immediate success is hardly a given. It didn’t take long, however, for Trevor Brazile

win like this,” Graves said of the Denver victory. “I’m really excited about our year. I’m looking forward to it, because it’s going to be awesome.” In 2013, Graves teamed with Kaleb

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Tie-down roper Cody Ohl celebrates after winning the 2014 National Western Stock Show & Rodeo.

Driggers, who was fourth in the header world standings while Graves was third in the heeler world standings. Smith moved on to team up with Driggers. Other winners in Denver in 2014 were bareback riders Richmond Champion and Austin Foss (249 points each on three head); steer wrestler Dean Gorush (12.9 seconds on three head); saddle bronc rider Cort Scheer (254 points on three head); tie-down roper Cody Ohl (25.7 seconds on three head); barrel racer Mary Walker (46.34 seconds on three runs); and bull rider Bobby Welsh (242 points on three head). Of those winners, Brazile, Gorush and Ohl are all members of the ProRodeo Hall of Fame in Colorado Springs, Colo.

and Travis Graves to taste victory. In just their second rodeo as team roping partners, they won a championship at the National Western Stock Show and Rodeo at the Denver Coliseum. Brazile and Graves had a time of 16.3 seconds on three head to win the team roping average. “New partnerships come with the unknowns and doubts,” said Brazile to the ProRodeo Sports News . “You know you both rope good, but can you rope good together? Can you produce in those situations? We did. It makes for a lot shorter ride home to Texas knowing that this is a promising partnership. This will help our confidence all the way through the winter.”

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