2009 World standings place: 1st
2009 Wrangler NFR place: 1st
2009 Wrangler NFR earnings: $139,880
2009 earnings: $310,219
Wrangler NFR average titles: 1 (2009)
Tour Finale titles: 2
Summer: 2000, 2002
Tour Finale qualifications: 14
Winter: 2001, 2004-06
Summer: 2000-02, 2004
Championship: 2004-09
DNCFR qualifications: 8 (2000-03, 2006-08, 2010)
Professional
2010 Highlights
• Top roughstock earner with $22,091 during the Fourth of July run, also known as Cowboy Christmas. Mote was the overall top earner during Cowboy Christmas in 2009 with $29,926.
• Won the Sheridan WYO Rodeo
• Co-champion at the Crooked River Roundup (Prineville, Ore.)
Career Highlights
• 2009: Won the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo average title with 847 points on 10 head and set a Wrangler NFR record for his event with winnings of $139,880 on his way to winning his third world championship. Mote's total earnings of $310,219 was a single-season record for bareback riding; had the highest earnings of any competitor during Cowboy Christmas with $29,926; won the Southwestern Exposition & Livestock Show (Fort Worth, Texas); the Greeley (Colo.) Independence Stampede; the Sikeston (Mo.) Jaycee Bootheel Rodeo; the West of the Pecos Rodeo (Pecos, Texas); the Southwestern International PRCA Rodeo (El Paso, Texas); the average at the Dodge Columbia River Circuit Finals Rodeo (Redmond, Ore.); the Dodge Columbia River Circuit Finals all-around year-end title; the Wild Rogue ProRodeo (Central Point, Ore.); the Big Sky Pro Rodeo Roundup (Great Falls, Mont.); the Medicine Hat (Alberta) Stampede; co-champion at the Ponoka (Alberta) Stampede and co-champion at the Tri State Rodeo (Fort Madison, Iowa)
• 2008: Won Rounds 2, 5, 7 and 9 at the Wrangler NFR, twice tying the NFR record with a 91.5-point ride on Classic Pro Rodeo's Big Tex in Round 5 and another 91.5 on Big Bend Rodeo's Spring Fling in Round 7. Finished third in the world standings with earnings of $205,592. Won the Reno (Nev.) Rodeo; the Laughlin (Nev.) River Stampede; the Chief Joseph Days Rodeo (Joseph, Ore.); the Sikeston (Mo.) Jaycee Bootheel Rodeo; the Canby (Ore.) Rodeo; the Moses Lake (Wash.) Roundup; the Othello (Wash.) Pro Rodeo and the Spokane County (Wash.) Interstate Rodeo; co-champion West of the Pecos Rodeo (Pecos, Texas)
• 2007: Won Round 4 and shared title in Round 8 of the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo on his way to the second world title of his career. Clinched the gold buckle with an 82.5 point ride in Round 10. Broke Will Lowe’s event record for regular-season earnings with $152,184; became the 70th man to surpass $1 million in career earnings. Won RodeoHouston Shootout Round, worth $50,000; the Dodge Columbia River Circuit Finals (Redmond, Ore.); the SandHills Stock Show and Rodeo (Odessa, Texas); the Crooked River Roundup (Prineville, Ore.); the Eugene (Ore.) Pro Rodeo; the Santiam Canyon Stampede (Sublimity, Ore.) and the IPE & Stampede (Armstrong, British Columbia). Co-champion at the Tonasket (Wash.) Founders Day Rodeo; the West of the Pecos Rodeo (Pecos, Texas); the Snake River Stampede (Nampa, Idaho) and the Strathmore (Alberta) Stampede
• 2006: Placed in eight of 10 rounds at the Wrangler NFR, winning the seventh round with a score of 84.5 points, and tied for the win in 10th round with a score of 85.5 points. Won the Wild Rogue Pro Rodeo (Central Point, Ore.); the Northwest Montana Fair & Rodeo (Kalispell); the Crooked River Roundup (Prineville, Ore.); the Sisters (Ore.) Rodeo; the Klamath Falls (Ore.) Great Northwest Pro Rodeo; the Auburn (Calif.) Wild West Stampede; the Tour Round at the Red Bluff (Calif.) Round-Up; the Grand National Rodeo (San Francisco) and the Southwest District Livestock Show & Rodeo (Lake Charles, La.). Co-champion at the NILE Pro Rodeo (Billings, Mont.)
• 2005: Won the all-around title at the Othello (Wash.) Rodeo. Won the bareback riding titles at the Sikeston (Mo.) Jaycee Bootheel Rodeo; the Thunder Mountain ProRodeo (Longview, Wash.); the Chief Joseph Days Rodeo (Joseph, Ore.); the Cheney (Wash.) Rodeo; the Sisters (Ore.) Rodeo; the Salem (Ore.) Rodeo; the Eastern Oregon Livestock Show and Rodeo (Union); the Auburn (Calif.) Wild West Stampede; the Wrangler ProRodeo Tour Round and average titles at the San Angelo (Texas) Stock Show and Rodeo. Co-champion at the Founders Day Rodeo (Tonasket, Wash.) and the Silver Spur Rodeo (Yakima, Wash.). Finished the year ranked 12th in the world with earnings of $114,069
• 2004: Finished ninth in the world standings with $118,901 and was fifth in the Wrangler NFR after picking up $29,992. Co-champion at the Cheyenne (Wyo.) Frontier Days; won the Puyallup (Wash.) Rodeo; the Buc Days ProRodeo (Corpus Christi, Texas) and the Ponoka (Alberta) Stampede. Semifinalist at the Winter Tour Finale (Las Vegas); finished fourth at the Summer Tour Finale (Omaha, Neb.) and the Tour Championships (Dallas)
• 2003: Won the National Western Stock Show & Rodeo (Denver) and the Clackamas County Fair & Rodeo (Canby, Ore). Co-champion in Round 4 of the Wrangler NFR with an 88.5-point ride on Bar T Rodeo’s Calamity Jane. Broke his collarbone and dislocated his shoulder at RodeoHouston and missed most of the spring and early summer; finished ninth in the world standings with $103,802
• 2002: World champion bareback rider and regular-season earnings leader; won the Tour Championships (Dallas) and the Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo (Colorado Springs, Colo.); co-champion at Central Wyoming Fair & Rodeo (Casper) and the Clackamas County Fair & Rodeo (Canby, Ore.)
• 2001: Reserve world champion. Co-champion at NILE Rodeo (Billings, Mont.); won the Tri-State Rodeo (Fort Madison, Iowa) and the Red Bluff (Calif.) Round-Up. Columbia River Circuit champion
• 2000: Won the Dodge Columbia River Circuit Finals Rodeo; co-champion at Grand National Rodeo (San Francisco) and won
the Winter Tour Finale (Mesquite, Texas)
• Columbia River Circuit bareback riding champion 2001-02, 2006-07; all-around champion 2009
Personal
6-0, 175...Wife, Kate (married 1999); sons, Charlie and Trey Lucky; daughter, Laura...Bobby was born with crooked legs and had to wear a splint at night and special shoes to help straighten them out…Hobbies include horse training, roping and fishing…Uses visualization techniques to prepare for competition…Clint Corey, the 1991 world champion bareback rider, is Mote’s long-time mentor…Travels with Jason Havens and Ryan Gray…Staged benefit at his 40-acre Culver, Ore., ranch to raise money for injured roper Mike Beers in 2007...Maintains his own Web site,
www.bobbymote.com