2008 Wrangler NFR place: 10th
2008 Wrangler NFR earnings: $26,187
2008 World standings: 14th
2008 earnings: $89,445
Tour Finale qualifications: 4
Winter Tour Finale: 2006
Summer Tour Finale: 2004
Championship Finale: 2004, 2006
DNCFR qualifications: 3 (2003-04, 2009)
Education: Weber State University, bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering
Professional
2009 Highlights
• Co-champion at the NILE Pro Rodeo (Billings, Mont.)
• Co-champion at the Strawberry Days Rodeo (Pleasant Grove, Utah)
• Won the SandHills Stock Show & Rodeo (Odessa, Texas)
• Won the Molalla (Ore.) Buckeroo Rodeo
• Won the Industry Hills (Calif.) Charity Pro Rodeo
• Won the Lehi (Utah) Round-Up
• Won Utah's Own Rodeo at the (Salt Lake City) Utah State Fair
• Won the Evanston (Wyo.) Cowboy Days
Career Highlights
• 2008 – Placed in five of 10 rounds at the Wrangler NFR, tying for third in Rounds 3 and 6. Won the Dodge Wilderness Circuit Finals Rodeo (Ogden, Utah); the Sikeston (Mo.) Jaycee Bootheel Rodeo; the Angelina Benefit Rodeo (Lufkin, Texas); the Wendy Wood Memorial PRCA Rodeo (Cedar City, Utah) and the Lea County Fair & Rodeo (Lovington, N.M.). Co-champion at the Frontier Days Rodeo (Walla Walla, Wash.); the Red Desert Roundup (Rock Springs, Wyo.) and at Utah's Own Rodeo at the Utah State Fair (Salt Lake City)
• 2007 – Won event title at RodeoHouston Super Series Championship and $50,000; Tied for Wrangler ProRodeo Tour-Round title at Rodeo Austin (Texas); co-champion at the Southeastern Livestock Show and Exhibition (Montgomery, Ala.); won Southwestern Exposition Livestock Show and Rodeo (Fort Worth, Texas) and the Dodge Wilderness Circuit Finals Rodeo, Ogden, Utah
• 2006 – Won saddle bronc riding titles at the Lions Dixie Roundup (St. George, Utah); Rancho Mission Viejo Rodeo (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.); the Horse Heaven Roundup (Kennewick, Wash.); the Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Posse Pro Rodeo (Turlock, Calif.); Great American West Rodeo (Logan, Utah); Santa Maria (Calif.) Elks Rodeo; Showdown Rodeo (Palmdale, Calif.); Fort Herriman (Utah) Memorial PRCA Rodeo; was co-champion at the Fourth of July Youth Celebration and PRCA Pro Rodeo (Window Rock, Ariz.); won the Wrangler ProRodeo Tour Round and average titles at the Red Bluff (Calif.) Round-Up; won the Oakdale (Calif.) Rodeo; and tied for the win in the Wrangler ProRodeo Tour Round and won the average title at the San Antonio (Texas) Stock Show and Rodeo; finished season 10th in the final world standings with $115,328
• 2005 – Won the Poway (Calif.) Coors Rodeo; the San Bernardino (Calif.) Sheriff’s PRCA Rodeo, the Ute Stampede (Nephi, Utah), the Home of Champions Rodeo (Red Lodge, Mont.), Canyonlands Rodeo (Moab, Utah) and Desert Peak Stampede (Tooele, Utah); co-champion at the Harrison (Ark.) Roundup Club PRCA Rodeo; won the second round at the Wrangler NFR with an 89-point ride on Big Bend Rodeo’s Kool Toddy. Finished ninth in the world standings with $109,411
• 2004 – Finished the year ranked fifth in the world with $146,048; finished third in the average at the Wrangler NFR and picked up $76,232; Won the Strawberry Days Rodeo (Pleasant Grove, Utah); the Sikeston (Mo.) Jaycee Bootheel Rodeo and the second round at the Tour Championships (Dallas) with an 85-point ride on Stace Smith Pro Rodeos Desperado; was a semifinalist at the Summer Tour Finale; tied for the win in round 2 of the Wrangler NFR with an 86-point ride on Harry Vold Rodeo’s Sun Devil and won round 4 on MJM Rodeo’s Little Stone with an 88-point ride. Placed in six of 10 rounds; was the Wilderness Circuit average champion
• 2003 – Won Oakley (Utah) Independence Day Rodeo and Spanish Fork (Utah) Fiesta Days Rodeo; Wilderness Circuit Champion. Finished 22nd in the world with $41,026
Personal
5-7, 140…wife, Fawn; daughters Ashley and Sienna…Parents are Larry and Marilyn who both competed in rodeo. Father was a bull rider and team roper and mother ran barrels. Now his dad is a maintenance superintendent and mother works as a secretary. He has two sisters. His older sister, Andrea Jones, is a barrel racer and she qualified for the 2006 Winter Tour Finale in Tulsa…Hobbies include skiing, hunting and fishing…Other occupation is engineering…Travels with Cody Wright and Levi Berry…Superstition is having his hat on the bed…Favorite livestock to draw is Wild Card of Sankey, whom he rode for 88 points at Spanish Fork, Utah, in 2003 or Firefly of Bar T…Favorite sports teams are the Utah Jazz, Green Bay Packers and the Colorado Avalanche, favorite food is lasagna and favorite movie is Tombstone…Rodeo idols are Lewis Feild, Rod Hay and Billy Etbauer
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