2009 World standings place: 5th 2009 Wrangler NFR place: 6th 2009 Wrangler NFR earnings: $57,776
2009 earnings: $143,091 Tour Finale titles: 1 Winter: 2002 Tour Finale qualifications: 3 Winter: 2002
Championship: 2008-09 DNCFR qualifications: 2 (2008-09)
Professional
2010 Highlights - partner Matt Sherwood
• Co-champion at the Fiesta Days Rodeo (Spanish Fork, Utah) with Matt Sherwood
Career Highlights • 2009: (Partner JoJo LeMond) won Round 1 of the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo with a time of 4.3 seconds and placed in three other rounds; won the Rancho Mission Viejo Rodeo (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.); the Buc Days Pro Rodeo (Corpus Christi, Texas), and tied the world record with a 3.5-second run on April 22; the Farm-City Pro Rodeo (Hermiston, Ore.); the Livingston (Mont.) Round-Up; the Walla Walla (Wash) Frontier Days. • 2008: (Partner Matt Sherwood) Won Round 9 of the Wrangler NFR with a time of 3.7 seconds and finished second in three additional rounds en route to his first world championship. In finishing fourth in the Wrangler NFR average, he earned $83,834, pushing his season total to $189,568. He is the first team roper from Nevada to win a gold buckle. Won the River City Roundup (Omaha, Neb.); the Southwestern Exposition & Livestock Show (Fort Worth, Texas); the Clark County Fair & Rodeo (Logandale, Nev.); the Molalla (Ore.) Buckeroo; the Oakley Independence Day Rodeo (Oakley City, Utah); the Lincoln County Fair & Rodeo (Afton, Wyo.) and That Famous Preston (Idaho) Night Rodeo. Co-champion at the War Bonnet Roundup (Idaho Falls, Idaho). Finished first in the Wilderness Circuit season standings
• 2007: (Partner Jay Adams) Won the Eastern Oregon Livestock Show (Union, Ore.); the Molalla (Ore.) Buckero; That Famous Preston Night Rodeo (Preston, Idaho), with Matt Sherwood, and the Dodge Wilderness Circuit Finals Rodeo (Ogden, Utah), with Matt Sherwood
• 2006: (Partner Jay Adams) Won the fourth round at the Wrangler NFR with a time of 4.2 seconds. Co-champion at the St. Paul (Ore.) Rodeo; won the Guy Weadick Memorial Rodeo (High River, Alberta) and the Daines Ranch Rodeo (Innisfail, Alberta) • 2003: Won team roping titles (with Camish Jennings) at the Clark County Fair and Rodeo (Logandale, Nev.) and Rancho Mission Viejo Rodeo (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.) • 2002: Won U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Cup Finale (Las Vegas) team roping title with Jason Handy. Won the National Western Stock Show & Rodeo (Denver) and the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo, with Jason Stewart. Won the Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo (Colorado Springs, Colo.), with Camish Jennings
Awards PRCA Rookie of the Year in team roping (heeling), 2002. Horse Bailey's Copper Doc (nickname Diesel) was named the PRCA/AQHA Team Roping Heel Horse of the Year in 2006-09
Amateur National High School Rodeo Association team roping champion, 1999 (with Matt Shiozawa) and all-around champion, 2000, while a student at Moapa Valley High School. Won the Nevada state high school tie-down roping titles as a sophomore and junior, then the state team roping championship as a senior
Personal 5-10, 175...Wife Audrey Fuller; they were married July 27, 2009 at his father's ranch in Hayden, Colo. ... Started competing in rodeo at age six, in 1988...Parents are Wesley and Liz Adams, who operate Western States Ranching Corp., which includes properties in Georgia, Texas, Colorado and a 380-acre ranch in Logandale, Nev., once owned by Wayne Newton. Randon has four brothers and a sister. His brother Jason (Jay) was the PRCA Rookie of the Year in team roping (heading) in 2003. Britney, his sister, is a barrel racer and his brother Austin was the 2006 Nevada High School all-around cowboy…Father, Wes, roped and rode bulls and broncs as an amateur rodeo competitor ... Got nickname "Rambo" from ProRodeo Hall of Fame inductee J.C. Trujillo, a reference to his focus and competitiveness...Randon’s horse is 12-year-old Diesel and his backup is Zee (10 years old)…Besides roping with his brother Jay, he had forged partnerships with Jason Stewart, Camish Jennings and Jason Handy before hooking up with Matt Sherwood in late 2007, a partnership which led to world championships for both of them in 2008
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