2009 World standings: 5th
2009 earnings: $92,169
Tour Finale qualifications:  1
 Summer:  2005
Education:  Sheridan (Wyo.) College

Professional
2009 Highlights
• Won the National Western Stock Show & Rodeo (Denver)

• Won the Dixie National Rodeo (Jackson, Miss.)

• Won the Walla Walla (Wash) Frontier Days
Career Highlights
• 2008: Placed in four of 10 rounds at the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo, including a second-place result in Round 8 to finish sixth in the average. Won the SandHills Stock Show & Rodeo, Odessa, Texas and co-champion at the Lewiston (Idaho) Roundup. Finished ninth in the world standings with earnings of $126,935

• 2007: Placed in five of the 10 rounds of the Wrangler NFR and finished runner-up to World Champion Wes Silcox. Won Xtreme Bulls Tour points championship with earnings of $72,133. Led all competitors in earnings during the Cowboy Christmas segment of the season (July 2-8) with $36,031 and just missed the Cowboy Christmas record of $37,630 set by Ty Murray in 1999. Won the Southeastern Livestock Exposition (Montgomery, Ala.); the Luxton Pro Rodeo (Victoria, British Columbia); Xtreme Bulls Tour event (Cody, Wyo.); the Cody (Wyo.) Stampede; the Laramie (Wyo.) Jubilee Days; the Days of '47 Rodeo (Salt Lake City, Utah); the Four States Fair & Rodeo (Texarkana, Ark.) and the Dodge Mountain States Circuit Finals Rodeo (Denver). Co-champion at the Eagle (Colo.) County Fair & Rodeo

• 2006: Won the State Fair of Louisiana Pro Rodeo (Shreveport, La.) and the Sand & Sage Roundup (Lamar, Colo.).
• 2005: Won the first round at the Farm-City Pro Rodeo (Hermiston, Ore.), won the first round at the Dodge City (Kan.) Rodeo, finished second in the Wrangler Tour round at the Greeley (Colo.) Independence Stampede and won the Eagle (Colo.) County Fair and Rodeo.

Amateur
National High School Bull Riding champion, 2004. Qualified for the College National Finals Rodeo and finished fourth, 2005. Two-time state high school wrestling champion, 2003-04.

Personal
5-8, 140…Engaged to be married Sydney Hayes on Nov. 28, 2009…Enjoys hunting, fishing and playing golf…Nickname is Mighty Mouse…Was home schooled…Parents are Mike and Kim. His younger brother, Kaleb, was the 2008 PRCA Saddle Bronc Riding Rookie of the Year; his older brother Klayten is in the military and served as an Army interrogator in Iraq in 2007…Kanin was the Wyoming State High School wrestling champion at 112 pounds as a junior and at 119 pounds as a senior; he had three offers of college wrestling scholarships…He had a 95.5-point ride on Broken Arrow Rodeo’s Wardance, the 2005 PRCA Bull of the Year, at  the 2007 Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show in Fort Worth, Texas…Kanin suffered a ruptured spleen, a partially torn right ear and broken rib at the St. Paul (Ore.) Rodeo on July 2, 2008. He had surgery to remove the spleen and re-attach the ear and returned to action just two months later at the Lewiston (Idaho) Roundup, held Sept. 5-7, where he was co-champion...Travels with Kaleb and Jarrod Ford…Raises bucking bulls and enjoys fishing