ProRodeo Sports News - November 19, 2021

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Knowles named to top PRCA rodeo position

BY THE NUMBERS 3 The number of father-son combinations who have won steer roping world

The Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) has named Steve Knowles its Director of Rodeo Administration. “I’m very excited about this opportunity,” said Knowles, 54. “I have been with the PRCA for 21 years as a Pro Official. I’m looking forward to this and I’m excited to take the next step. I have been involved with rodeo

Knowles junior rodeoed and high school rodeoed growing up and then was a bull rider in college at Pratt (Kan.) Community College and Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, La., and joined the PRCA in 1989. “At the circuit finals, years and years ago, they had a judging seminar and just out of curiosity I attended the seminar,” Knowles said.

championships. Rocky Patterson (2009-10, 2012 and 2016) and Cole Patterson (2021); John McEntire (1934) and Clark McEntire (1956-57, 1961) and Charles Good (1975) and Gary Good (1979). 5 The number of father-son combinations to win the average at the National Finals Steer Roping. The list consists of Jim Snively (1959) and Joe Snively (1961, 1972); James Allen (1971) and Guy Allen (1989, 1991, 1997, 2000, 2004); Charles Good (1976) and Gary Good (1979); Jim Davis (1988) and Bryce Davis (2009); and Rocky Patterson (1999, 2001) and Cole Patterson (2021). 8 The number of cowboys who have won world championships their rookie years in the PRCA. The list consists of steer wrestler Harry Charters (1959); bull rider Bill Kornell (1963); tie-down roper Roy Cooper (1976); team roper Tee Woolman (1980); tie- down roper Joe Beaver (1985); bull rider Sage Kimzey (2014);

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committees, stock contractors, judging and a contestant over my career. This has been kind of whirlwind; things are happening fast.” Knowles is slated to begin his new position Jan. 3 at PRCA headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colo. “Steve brings a wealth of experience to this job and will be a good fit for this position,” PRCA CEO Tom Glause said. Knowles has one rodeo left to judge and that’s the 2021 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo presented by Teton Ridge, at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Dec. 2-11. Knowles lives in St. Cloud, Fla., and will be relocating to Colorado Springs.

said. “He was a big, stout athletic animal with a personality to match. It is crazy how cool he is to be around. He’s one of those bulls who makes what we do fun. He had intensity that other bulls didn’t have.” Brusier’s talent isn’t lost on the PRCA’s best bull riders – like world champions Sage Kimzey and J.W. Harris. Kimzey, a six-time world champ – 2014- 19 – made the most memorable ride of his career aboard Bruiser. In Round 8, of the 2019 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas. Kimzey had a 94-point ride on Powder River Rodeo’s SweetPro’s Bruiser. SweetPro’s Bruiser was voted bull of the night for Round 8, and it is a ride Kimzey will never forget. “I started judging part time when I was still rodeoing and then I became a Pro Official on Jan. 1, 2001, with the PRCA. Knowles has three adult children, daughters, Fallon, 25 and Rylie, 23, and son, Carson, 20. “What I have enjoyed about rodeo is being able to stay in touch with rodeo committees and the contestants and I love traveling and meeting new people,” Knowles said. “As a judge, I would see the same people from rodeo-to-rodeo year to year and I made a lot of friends throughout the United States. I’m looking forward to taking my rodeo experience to my new job.”

SweetPro’s bull Bruiser retires Standout bull, Powder River Rodeo’s SweetPro’s Bruiser, 11, is calling it a career. SweetPro’s Bruiser was the 2017 PRCA

Bull of the Year and was second in 2018. Bruiser also was top bull of the NFR in 2015 and 2017, and 2019. “Bruiser is retired,” said H.D. Page, who owns Bruiser at D&H Cattle Company in Dickson, Okla. “I was hoping he would come back, but it not going to happen. He hurt a tendon in his leg. He’s going to be able to breed cows and he’s going have a good retirement, but his competitive career is going to be over with.” Page gushed when talking about Bruiser, who weighs 1,950 pounds. “He was a once-in-a-lifetime bull,” Page

all-around Stetson Wright (2019); and tie-down roper Haven Meged (2019).

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