ProRodeo Sports News - August 6, 2021

IN THEIR WORDS LOGAN COOK Saddle bronc rider driving for first Wrangler NFR I t (Calgary Stampede) was really good. I looked up to that rodeo as a kid. I was just happy to get the opportunity to go up there. There are a lot of guys who rodeo all their Logan Cook didn’t grow up in rodeo. With his grandfather owning a car lot and both parents

school I was supposed to be a tie-down roper, I thought. Then I got to college and Jeff was a bareback rider, so he liked the roughstock. I got decent in that. It’s a lot cheaper to get up and down the rodeo and ride bucking horses than to haul a horse and trailer. My dad enters us (Cook travels with Parker Kempfer, Parker Fleet and Keene Justesen). It’s kind of crazy because he never rodeoed. I think he has fun with it. He’s a car salesman, he didn’t grow up cowboying. My grandpa owns the car lot. I help them here and there when the daywork is slower. I help repo cars. It’s a good gig. It can be a little hairy at times, but it pays pretty good. I have a guy I go with. He’s been around. They don’t give him too much lip most of the time. When I’m not competing and not working at the car lot, I do daywork at Klein Cattle, owned by Justin Klein. I think staying in the Top 24 in the Tour (ProRodeo Tour presented by PendletonWhisky) is going to be the key to getting into the Tour Finale. There’s going to be a lot of money given away those last couple of weekends to stand a chance to make the Finals. It’s great for me because I’m going to be right on the bubble the whole time. Hopefully I’ll get up there (Tour Finale at California Rodeo Salinas) and have some luck and draw some good horses. There are going to be some guys on the bubble who are going to get in and there are some that might go and not make it in. But it’ll be exciting.

careers and never get to go there. I was just excited they opened it up to count toward the standings and let some of us guys get in there. This season has been great. We have a good

working there (Cook helps out too), he learned about being a cowboy from his uncle Phillip Reynolds. But Reynolds team roped, and Cook grew up expecting to tie-down rope. Instead, the 23-year-old from Alto, Texas, is 15th in saddle bronc riding in the PRCA | RAMWorld Standings with $42,560 with less than two months remaining in the regular season. Cook is hunting for his first Wrangler National Finals Rodeo qualification and got a big boost in the standings after finishing third at the Calgary Stampede, earning $16,750.

group of guys and are having a lot of fun. I’m just happy all those rodeos opened up and gave us a chance to go to those rodeos. Last year was shut down, but this is the first year I’ve gotten to go to all those bigger rodeos and have plenty to go to. Last year was fair, but I expected better. It was decent, but the goal was to be in the top 30 to get into those bigger rodeos for this season to set it up for this year and to have a little more success this year than last year. My uncle didn’t rodeo much, but he’s been a cowboy all his life, and I followed him around. Luckily, I have some good parents ( Jerry and Leslie) who were 110% behind it. I went to junior rodeos, then started getting on broncs for the fun of it. I went to Panola (Texas) College and graduated with a degree in farm and ranch management. I competed under coach Jeff Collins, and he opened my eyes to what was possible. It was probably one of the best things to do was go to school there for him. He was awesome. He was a bareback rider. He won the world in 2000. His mental game is unreal. He really changed the way you look at things. I made the College National Finals Rodeo three times. I roped all the way through college. All through high

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