• Won the Cassia County Fair & Rodeo (Burley, Idaho) and surpassed $3 million in career earnings. With his $3,000,856 through Aug. 21, he became just the second cowboy to cross the milestone, joining all-around star roper Trevor Brazile. Etbauer, who had won $1,334 in team roping, also was closing in on crossing the $3 million mark in a single event. He had $478 to go on that milestone through Aug. 21.

• Won the Dixie Nationals Rodeo (Jackson, Miss.)

• Won the Woodward (Okla.) Elks Rodeo

 

• 2007: Broke saddle bronc riding record he shared with Tom Reeves by qualifying for the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo a 19th time, despite missing a month of competition due to an ankle injury suffered at the Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo (Colorado Springs, Colo.). Won Rounds 8 and 10 and placed in Round 1 at the Wrangler NFR. Won the Cody (Wyo.) Stampede and the Old Fort Days Rodeo (Fort Smith, Ark.)

• 2006: Placed in six out of 10 rounds at the Wrangler NFR; was co-champion at the American Royal Rodeo (Kansas City, Mo.); won Wrangler ProRodeo Tour Round and average titles at the Dodge City (Kan.) Roundup and National Western Stock Show and Rodeo (Denver); finished season ranked seventh in the final world standings
• 2005: Set a saddle bronc riding earnings record for the Wrangler NFR with $120,775. He broke the record he had set in 2004 with $117,745. He won or shared the victory in five out of 10 rounds at the Wrangler NFR. He won the third round with a 90-point ride on Sankey Rodeo’s Skitso, tied for the win in the seventh round with an 86.5 on Stace Smith Pro Rodeo’s Wasp, won the eighth round with an 87.5 on Kesler Championship Rodeo’s Coffee Break and tied for the win in rounds nine and 10 with scores of 87 and 90 on Frankin Rodeo’s No Name and Stace Smith Pro Rodeo’s Big Jet, respectively. Won the Summer Tour Finale (Omaha, Neb.); the 101 Wild West Rodeo (Ponca City, Okla.); the War Bonnet Roundup Rodeo (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Iowa’s Championship Rodeo (Sidney, Iowa) and the Dixie National Rodeo (Jackson, Miss.). Won the Wrangler ProRodeo Tour Round and average title at the Dodge City (Kan.) Roundup Rodeo, and won the Wrangler Tour Round and was co-champion in the average race at La Fiesta de los Vaqueros (Tucson, Ariz.); co-champion in the Wrangler ProRodeo Tour Round at the Cheyenne (Wyo.) Frontier Days Rodeo. Finished third in the world standings with $209,449
• 2004: Won his fifth world title after collecting $222,592 in earnings and finishing second in the Wrangler NFR average race. Tied for the win in Round 2 with a score of 86 points on Franklin Rodeo’s Limited Edition; won Round 5 with a score of 84 points on Flying Five Rodeo’s Snuff Sundance; won Round 8 with an 89.5-point ride aboard Western Rodeo’s Painted Feathers and won Round 10 with a 93-point ride on Kesler Rodeo’s Cool Alley, tying the arena record he previously set on the same horse in 2003. He placed in four additional rounds. He set the Wrangler NFR earnings record in saddle bronc riding with $117,745; was the co-winner of the Tour round at the National Western Rodeo (Denver) and co-champion at the San Angelo (Texas) Rodeo. Won the average and Tour Round titles at La Fiesta de los Vaqueros (Tucson, Ariz.); the Reno (Nev.) Rodeo and the Ellensburg (Wash.) Rodeo. Won the Buc Days ProRodeo (Corpus Christi, Texas); the Kitsap County Fair and Stampede (Bremerton, Wash.) and the Spanish Fork (Utah) Fiesta Days Rodeo; was a semifinalist at the Winter Tour Finale (Las Vegas) and Tour Championships (Dallas); won Oakley (Utah) Independence Stampede and became the sixth PRCA member to cross the $2 million mark in career earnings
• 2003: Set a Wrangler NFR arena record with a 93-point ride on Kesler Rodeo’s Cool Alley to win Round 5; tied for the win in Round 7 with an 85.5-point ride on Bar T Rodeo’s Sara Jane Smokeless and Round 9 with an 86.5-point ride on Burch Rodeo’s Smokeless Blood Brother. Won the Navajo Nation Fourth of July Rodeo (Window Rock, Ariz.); the Lawton (Okla.) Rangers Rodeo and the Horse Heaven Roundup (Kennewick, Wash.). Finished seventh in the world standings with $123,861
• 2002: Finished 11th in the world; injured during fourth round at Wrangler NFR and had to withdraw from competition. Won the Guymon (Okla.) Pioneer Days Rodeo; the Clovis (Calif.) Rodeo; the Southwestern Exposition & Livestock Show (Fort Worth, Texas); the Oakley (Utah) Independence Day Rodeo; the Sheridan (Wyo.) Rodeo; California Rodeo Salinas; the Colorado State Fair & Rodeo (Pueblo) and the Lewiston (Idaho) Round-Up; co-champion at Old Fort Days (Fort Smith, Ark.) Rodeo
• 2001: Won the State Fair of Oklahoma (Oklahoma City); the NILE ProRodeo (Billings, Mont.) and the Farm-City Pro Rodeo (Hermiston, Ore.)
• 2000: Winter Tour points leader; won the Grand National Rodeo (San Francisco); the San Antonio (Texas) Stock Show and Rodeo; RodeoHouston and the National Western Stock Show & Rodeo (Denver)
• 1999: Won the Snake River Stampede (Nampa, Idaho); the Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show (Fort Worth, Texas) and the Deadwood (S.D.) Days of '76 Rodeo
• 1998: Won the Dodge City (Kan.) Round-Up
• 1996: Won the Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show (Fort Worth, Texas); the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo; RodeoHouston; La Fiesta de los Vaqueros (Tucson, Ariz.) and the Greeley (Colo.) Independence Stampede. Won the Calgary (Alberta) Stampede $50,000 bonus round; co-champion at the Omak (Wash.) Stampede
• 1992: Set an NFR single-event earnings record with $101,531
• Won NFR saddle bronc riding average title in 1992 and 1996

Personal
5-5, 140...Wife, Hollie (married April 2, 1994) was a scholarship track and field athlete at Oklahoma State University and now competes in barrel racing; sons, Kord (born 1997) and Treg (2002); daughter, Jacie (1999)...Hollie home-schools all of their children...Hobbies include raising and riding horses. The family breeding program began in the fall of 1995 with the purchase of No Whistle, a sorrel stallion...Competed with his brothers Robert and Dan. When they started they shared a bank account. When one won money, they would share so that they could compete at the next rodeo. Billy says this was nice because it kept them on the rodeo road and he knew he could always trust his brothers to help him out. He said they were the best traveling partners he ever had…His nephew Trell Etbauer (Robert's son) won the 2008 Linderman Award...Appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman on Dec. 2, 2005, to talk about the Wrangler NFR