2008 World standings place: 69th (TR-heeler)
2008 earnings: $12,679
Tour Finale titles: 2
Winter: 2004
Championship: 2005
Tour Finale qualifications: 10
Winter: 2003-04, 2006
Summer: 2001, 2003-05
Championship: 2003-05
Education: Southeastern Oklahoma State University (Durant), degree in communications
Professional
2009 Highlights
• Co-champion at the Abdallah Shrine Rodeo (Tonganoxie, Kan.), with Justin Yost
• Won the Mesquite (Texas) Championship Rodeo, with Justin Yost-Aug. 1
Career Highlights
• 2007: Finished sixth in the average in the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo, with Charly Crawford and 13th in the final world standings; won the Bennington (Kan.) PRCA Rodeo, with Colt Braden; the Buffalo Bill Rodeo (North Platte, Neb.), with Colt Braden; the North Rodeo (Spooner, Wisc.), with Chad Masters and Kansas’ Biggest Rodeo (Phillipsburg, Kan.), with Chad Masters
• 2006: (Partner Steve Purcella) Won the Strawberry Days Rodeo (Pleasant Grove, Utah); the Buc Days Pro Rodeo (Corpus Christi, Texas); co-champion in the average at the National Western Stock Show and Rodeo (Denver)
• 2005: (Partner Steve Purcella) Won the Tour Championships (Dallas) with a time of 4.1 seconds in the U.S. Army Championship Round. Won the Wrangler ProRodeo Tour Round and average title at the Reno (Nev.) Rodeo and shared the round victory in the second round with a 4.4-second run at the Wrangler NFR and placed in five other rounds. Finished third at the Wrangler NFR with $78,371 and finished the year fourth in the world standings with $141,166
• 2004: (Partner Steve Purcella) Finished second in the world with $137,046 and was second in the average at the Wrangler NFR earning $42,903. Won the average and Tour round title at Laughlin (Nev.) River Stampede; won Winter Tour Finale (Las Vegas); won the Cowboy Capital of the World ProRodeo (Stephenville, Texas); the Reno (Nev.) Rodeo and the Spokane (Wash.) County Interstate Fair & Rodeo. Semifinalist at the Summer Tour Finale (Omaha, Neb.) and the Tour Championships (Dallas) and was second in the Wrangler NFR average with a total time of 93.3 seconds on 10 head
• 2003: (Partner Wade Wheatley) Won Round 5 with a 4.6-second run at the Wrangler NFR and was co-winner in Round 10 with a 4.4-second run. Finished the year ranked ninth in the world with $94,513
• 2002: (Partner Steve Purcella) Won the Laughlin (Nev.) River Stampede and Rancho Mission Viejo Rodeo (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.)
• 2001: (Partner Charles Pogue) Won the Heart O’ Texas Fair & Rodeo (Waco), San Antonio Livestock Show and Rodeo, and Greeley (Colo.) Independence Stampede
• 2000: (Partner Charles Pogue), Won the NFR team roping average title; won California Rodeo (Salinas) and Greeley (Colo.) Independence Stampede; won the Prairie Circuit
• 1999: (Partner Charles Pogue) Won the San Antonio Livestock Show and Rodeo and Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo
• 1998: (Partner Charles Pogue) Won the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo; regular-season team roping heeling earnings leader; world champion runner-up
• 1997: Regular-season team roping heeling earnings leader
• 1996: (Partner Doyle Gellerman) Won the NILE Stock Show and Rodeo (Billings, Mont.)
• 1995: Set an NFR team roping arena record (with Doyle Gellerman) with a 3.8-second run (the record has since been broken); world champion runner-up
• 1994: (Partner Bret Boatright) Won the Prairie Circuit Finals Rodeo
Personal
6-0, 185...Wife, Angie (married in 1995)...Hobbies include paintball, football, golf and farming pecans...Traveling partner is his wife...Horse’s name is Señor Hot Wheels...Produced an instructional video Get the Winning Edge with Britt Bockius
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