2009 World standings place: 1st
2009 Wrangler NFR place: 1st
2009 Wrangler NFR earnings: $106,292
2009 earnings: $186,689
Wrangler NFR average titles: 1 (2009)
Tour Finale qualifications: 2
Winter: 2006
Championship: 2009
DNCFR qualifications: 6 (2000, 2003-04, 2006, 2008, 2010)
Professional
2010 Highlights - partner Kollin VonAhn
• Won the Lea County Fair & Rodeo (Lovington, N.M.)
• Won the Lawton (Okla.) Rangers Rodeo
• Won Flint Hills Rodeo (Strong City, Kan.)
• Won the Hugo (Okla.) PRCA Rodeo
• Won the Gladewater (Texas) Round-Up Rodeo
Career Highlights
• 2009: Shared first place in Round 4 of the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo and placed in six other rounds en route to winning the average title with a time of 59.2 seconds (just one-tenth of a second off the NFR record) and the world championship; won the Beef Empire Days PRCA Rodeo (Garden City, Kan.); the Buffalo Bill Rodeo (North Platte, Neb.); co-champion at the Old Fort Days Rodeo (Fort Smith, Ark.)
• 2008: (Partner Rhen Richard) Won the Reno (Nev.) Rodeo and the Livingston (Mont.) Round-up; co-champion at the Cody (Wyo.) Stampede. Won the Butterfield Stage Days Rodeo (Bridgeport, Texas), with Matt Kasner, and finished second in the Heartland ProRodeo Championships (Waco, Texas), with Mickey Gomez. Finished 22nd in world standings with earnings of $44,364
• 2007: (Partner Shannon Frascht) Won the PRCA Championship Rodeo (Topeka, Kan.); the Flint Hills Rodeo (Strong City, Kan.) and the Enid (Okla.) Stampede; co-champion at the Woodward (Okla.) Elks Rodeo
• 2006: (Partner Shannon Frascht) Placed in five of 10 rounds at the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo, sharing the win in Round Five with a 4.0-second run and winning the seventh round in 4.1 seconds. Won the Rodeo of the Ozarks (Springdale, Ark.); the Old Fort Days Rodeo (Fort Smith, Ark.) and the Wrangler ProRodeo Tour Round and average title at the San Angelo (Texas) Stock Show and Rodeo
• 2005: (Partner Shannon Frascht) Won the Oregon Trail Rodeo (Hastings, Neb.); the Kitsap County Fair & Rodeo (Bremerton, Wash.) and the Woodward (Okla.) Elks Rodeo
• 2004: Finished the year ranked 23rd in the world standings with $29,062
• 2002: Won the Prairie Circuit year-end team roping title, with Shannon Frascht
• 2000: Won team roping title at the Colorado State Fair & Rodeo (Pueblo), with D.J. O'Connor
Awards
PRCA team roping (heading) Rookie of the Year, 2000
Personal
6-0, 210…Single … Father Terry Sartain and mother Debby Russell … Enjoys fishing, deer hunting, golf and listening to music, especially Cross Canadian Ragweed (he grew up near lead singer Cody Canada), George Strait and Kid Rock … Primary competition horse is Champ, who he bought in the fall of 2008 from Texan Katie Jameson … Family shows halter horses in the American Quarter Horse Association and the American Paint Horse Association; grandmother, Mary Hummel, was one of the first women judges chosen to work horse shows … Taught himself how to rope by watching training tapes by Allen Bach and Clay O’Brien Cooper; still considers Cooper his rodeo role model … Graduate of Mustang (Okla.) High School, 1997, and attended Northwest Oklahoma State University for two years … Favorite movie is Big Jake, but is a big fan of all of John Wayne’s films … Favorite book is the Bible
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