ProRodeo Sports News - October 30, 2020

NATIONAL FINALS STEER ROPING

TREVOR BRAZILE AGE: 43 YEARS COMPETED: 1995 to present CAREER EARNINGS: $6,987,135 BEST SEASON: $518,011 (2015) EVENTS: Tie-

down roping, team roping and steer roping

Cowboy enters NFSR with another milestone on horizon Million 7 Dollar Man TREVOR BRAZILE

PRCA ProRodeo photo by Clay Guardipee Trevor Brazile competed at the National Circuit Finals Steer Roping in Torrington, Wyo., in July. Brazile needs to earn $12,865 at the Clem McSpadden National Finals Steer Roping in Mulvane, Kan., Nov. 6-7 to reach the $7 million mark in career earnings.

BY TRACY RENCK D uring his highly decorated and unmatched ProRodeo career, Trevor Brazile has rewritten the PRCA record book. Brazile, the King of the Cowboys, has won a PRCA-record 25 gold buckles – a PRCA-record 14 in all-around (2002-04, 2006-15 and 2018); three in tie-down roping (2007, 2009-10); one in team roping (2010) and seven in steer roping (2006-07, 2011, 2013-15 and 2019). Brazile enters his 23rd ClemMcSpadden National Finals Steer Roping at the Kansas Star Arena in Mulvane, Nov. 6-7, not only chasing another gold buckle, but another milestone. The Decatur, Texas, cowboy is $12,865 from reaching the $7 million mark in career earnings. “I think reaching a mark like that is just

there to motivate the next generation, not only of cowboys but rodeo committees and (PRCA) administration to know that has been done in rodeo, and it will get easier each year to do that if everything keeps on the same trajectory, ” said Brazile, 43. To fathom how impressive the $7 million mark is, the next cowboy

on PRCA’s career earnings list is ProRodeo Hall of Famer Cody Ohl at $3,510,941. “I was in Colorado Springs (Colo.) when (ProRodeo Hall of Famer)

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