ProRodeo Sports News - September 20, 2024

PUYALLUP, WASH. BY TANNER BARTH Reiste solidifies spot in Top 15 with victory Trevor Reiste has been battling

to get back to the National Finals Rodeo since his debut in the yellow bucking chutes in 2017. Year after year he has dealt with injuries that left him on the wrong side of the bubble in the Top 15 of the PRCA | RAM World Standings at the end of the regular season. His most recent performance at the Cinch Playoffs at the Puyallup (Wash.) Rodeo may make that Las Vegas drought a thing of the past. Reiste failed to make a qualified ride in the semifinals but advanced to the final-four shootout round because of his performance in Bracket 1. In the finals, he matched up with Bridwell Pro Rodeo’s Pound Town for an 86-point ride. The score held off runner-up Jace Trosclair, who had an 84.5-point trip. The eight-second ride added $13,000 to his 2024 ledger, a much-needed payday as he sat squarely on the bubble of the Top 15 with the season ending on Sept. 30. “I was sitting 12th coming into this rodeo and I really need to get as much money won as I can,” said Reiste, 31. “So, finding a way to win this really helps me a lot.” It was a bull that he said fit him like a dream. “That bull was awesome in the short round,” Reiste said. “He was away from my hand, and I love bulls that go left. He fit me to a tee, and I couldn’t have asked for much more.” Reiste has now qualified for an even bigger payday in Sioux Falls, S.D., at the Cinch Playoffs Governor’s Cup, Sept. 26-28. As the PRORODEO regular season winds down he plans to keep his head down and continue going at them in his quest to get back to the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas. “We’ve been fighting to get back there, and I finally had a healthy year,” Reiste said. “I just have to keep doing what I’m doing and not think about it too much. I’m just out here trying to get bulls rode.”

John Pyle photo Trevor Reiste matched up with Bridwell Pro Rodeo’s Pound Town for an 86-point ride in the finals to clinch the victory in Puyallup, Wash.

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