ProRodeo Sports News - January 8, 2021

TYLER WAGUESPACK Event: Steer wrestling Age: 31 Hometown: Gonzales, La. NFRQualifications: 6 (2015-20)

“Hopefully it’s a better year as far as COVID stuff goes, and hopefully we can get back to the normal schedule and know where we will be for the year, but I don’t know if that is a goal or not. For goals, my goal is just to do better. I did great this year and ended up third in the world. Everyone wants to get the gold, and congratulations to Jacob Edler, he also won the average, and everyone wants to be in his position. I’m going to work hard to get there next year. I have three rodeos that are my nemeses that I haven’t made the short round at: Fort Worth (Texas), Reno (Nev.) and Cheyenne (Wyo.). We always talk about where we have success at, but those always get away fromme. Sometimes it’s breaking the barrier or just having tough luck at them. You needed to be in the top 12 at the old-school Fort Worth (rodeo), and I was 13th there twice.”

PRCA ProRodeo photo by Roseanna Sales Splitting the win in Round 2 of the 2020 NFR helped fuel the fire steer wrestler Tyler Waguespack is bringing into 2021.

PRCA ProRodeo photo by Clay Guardipee Luke Brown, left, and Joseph Harrison won’t be partnered in 2021, but they both want to return to the NFR in December.

LUKE BROWN Event: Team roping header A ge: 46

JOSEPH HARRISON Event: Team roping heeler Age: 33 Hometown: Overbrook, Okla. NFRQualifications: 4 (2017-20)

Hometown: Morgan Mill, Texas NFRQualifications: 13 (2008-20)

“Man, I really don’t know other than the fact that my goal is to turn more steers for money than I ever have in my life, with fewer mistakes and less missing for sure. I’ll just try to cut the mistakes down. “Winning Reno would be great, that’s one I’ve always wanted to win. I also love competing in California, but I don’t know what it’ll be like this year. Hopefully it’ll open up, and we’ll get back to normal. I’ll be roping with Cory Petska this year, and I’m looking forward to it. This is my first time roping with him, and I’ve always wanted to. I think this year will be like last year where things will be a little different and not the normal routine. For the first 12 years that I rodeoed, it was a routine. You went to the same places and worked your schedule the same way, but it was nothing like that last year. This year will be a little different too, so you’ll have to live by the seat of your pants. It’ll be interesting.”

“My head goal is to win enough to make a living and feed my family, but everyone wants a gold buckle, baby, so that’s what I’m after. (Winning) The American last year was super special. If they had it 20 times, there wouldn’t be but 15 or 20 guys who win it, since some might win it twice. Having the trinket to show you’re the champ one time is what it’s all about. San Antonio got away fromme a couple of times, and I would like to win it and Houston, since that got away fromme before, too. Those are milestone rodeos, just like Cheyenne, Salinas (Calif.) and Reno. No matter what the money pays, just to say when you’re old and gray that, ‘Back in such-and-such year I won that rodeo,’ they’re conversation pieces, not to mention all of them pay well. Some pay really, really well like Houston paying $50,000 to the winner. I don’t want to look back and say, ‘If I had given it 110% I could have done it,’ or ‘I could have done it if I just stuck my neck out.’ So, my goal is that no matter what, with every steer, to do a good job and don’t halfway do it.”

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