ProRodeo Sports News - November 16, 2018

Anderson joined the PRCA in 2004 and consistently won between $4,000 to $13,000 per year. Then in 2017, the Genola, Utah, cowboy topped out at $17,033 for the season. The 2018 season was par for the course, as Freed ranked seventh in the Wilderness Circuit for team roping heading with $6,555 and Anderson ranked fifth in the Wilderness Circuit for heeling with $10,062. “We had kind of a tough year,” Anderson said. “I just didn’t let anything bother me and had fun for a change instead of trying so hard, and it let us have some good luck (at the RAMWCFR).” During the 2018 season, the duo won the Daniel Dopps Memorial Ram PRCA Rodeo at Mountain Home, Idaho, June 23, and the Jerome (Idaho) County Fair and Rodeo, Aug. 9. The $6,811 they won at Heber City set them up for possibly making a far bigger win at the RAMNational Circuit Finals Rodeo in Kissimmee, Fla. “It was great, we won more there than we did in our circuit all summer,” Anderson said. “We might be able to go to some winter rodeos, but I haven’t looked too far ahead for that.” DOWNTHE ROAD In keeping with the header approach, Freed is looking ahead. “I want to make the NFR, but my goal is having good horses and competing at a high level to get better all the time,” Freed said. “Being competitive is my favorite thing to do.” Even when Freed isn’t competing, he’s working on roping or helping others with their roping on his website, xfactorteamroping.com. “It’s a lot of instructional team roping videos with the best horsemen in the industry, so that’s been a big deal, and I do a podcast as well,” Freed said, adding that his wife, Niki, also ropes. Anderson runs a small trucking company in the North

Dakota oil fields, but he plans on competing as much as possible during the winter. “I wasn’t going to go much at all, but if we can go to some winter rodeos I’ll go,” Anderson said, adding that he’d like to compete in Denver and Odessa, Texas. Freed will spend the winter preparing for the summer and hopes to do well at the Reno (Nev.) Rodeo in June. “If you’re winning, you have to keep going, and if not, then pull it in and find out why not and fix it and keep getting better,” Freed said. “I’m rodeoing as much as I can.” Freed’s dad, Chris, has been a PRCA team roper since 1985 and his mom, Janie, competed in breakaway roping. “That’s what we grew up doing,” Freed said. “I love training horses. We raised these horses, and what I’m riding now we raised too. I enjoyed that aspect of it. My dad and mom trained the horse I’m riding, and it’s just fun when the whole family does it, it makes it enjoyable to work with your family on it.” In addition to growing up in a rodeo family and having his brother, Rhett, also competing in team roping, Anderson married Maclee Feild, daughter of ProRodeo Hall of Famer and five-time world champion Lewis Feild. “It’s kind of a rodeo royalty family,” Anderson laughed. “It’s great, they’re in rodeo too, and she pushes me to rodeo more because it’s in her blood, so I take them everywhere with me. We like to do it as a family, it makes it fun for us.” Anderson’s kids, Briten, 9, Jalee, 7, Maizee, 6, and Tillee, 2, also get excited when he wins, Anderson said. “I guess everyone’s dream is to make the NFR, but I don’t know if I’m ready to commit to that, but someday I would like to,” Anderson said. “Maybe this is the year to have some success and try to make those dreams happen.”

Pace Freed and Jade Anderson won the RAM Wilderness Circuit Finals Rodeo team roping

average by 11.9 seconds, good for a $6,811 payday and a

video

qualification to the RAM National Circuit Finals Rodeo. James Fain photo

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SADDLE BRONC RIDING 1. Jake Wright .............. 255 pts. on three 2. Spencer Wright .......................... 251.5 3. Jesse Wright ................................. 249 4. CoBurn Bradshaw .......................... 247

TIE-DOWN ROPING 1. Kenneth Winn ......... 30.9 sec. on three 2. Brady Pitchford ............................ 31.4 3. Trampus Quarnberg ...................... 33.8 4. Brodi Jones .................................. 34.5

BARREL RACING 1. Andrea Jones ........ 49.44 sec. on three 2. Meka Farr ................................... 49.64 3. Jamie Gee ................................... 50.32 4. Jessie Telford ............................. 50.40

BULL RIDING 1. Tyler Bingham .......... 252 pts. on three 2. Joe Frost .................................... 247.5 3. Ty Wallace ...................... 161.5 on two 4. Dalan Duncan ............................. 157.5

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