2009 World standings place: 49th
2009 earnings: $17,856
Tour Finale qualifications: 0
DNCFR qualifications: 2 (2003, 2005)
Professional
2010 Highlights
• Won the tie-down roping at theTaber (Alberta) Pro Rodeo
• Won the team roping at the Dawson Creek (British Columbia) Stampede, with Murray Linthicum
Career Highlights
• 2009: Won the Airdrie (Alberta) Pro Rodeo , with Caleb Twisselman
• 2008: (Partner Jimmy Cole) Won the Marias River Stampede (Shelby, Mont.); the Kootenai River Rodeo (Libby, Mont.); the Chouteau County Fair & Rodeo (Fort Benton, Mont.); the Dillon (Mont.) Jaycees Rodeo and the Meagher County Labor Day Rodeo (White Sulphur Springs, Mont.). Won the all-around and the tie-down roping at the North Idaho Fair & Rodeo (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho). Won the all-around and the team roping at the Salmon (Idaho) Stampede PRCA Rodeo
• 2007: Won the National Westerm Stock Show & Rodeo (Denver), with John Robertson; the Crooked River Roundup (Prineville, Ore.), with B.J. Campbell; the Medicine Hat (Alberta) Stampede, with B.J. Campbell and the Sanders County Fair & PRCA Rodeo (Plains, Mont.), with Jimmy Cole. Co-champion at the Lakeside (Calif.) Rodeo, with B.J. Campbell
• 2006: Won the Arlee (Mont.) PRCA Rodeo
• 2004: Runner-up in the year-end Montana Circuit standings
Personal
6-0, 200…Single…Hobbies include hunting and golf…Got involved in rodeo after growing up on a ranch. First competition was in 1994…Parents are Dan, a rancher, and Joyce, a teacher. He has three brothers; cousin Richard Bird qualified for the 2008 Dodge National Circuit Finals Rodeo as a bull rider ... Family has produced the Bird Ranch Rodeo each June since 2008 ... Horse is Bucky (14 years-old) … Favorite food is steak and favorite movie is Tombstone … Rodeo idol is Joe Beaver