ProRodeo Sports News - Nov. 22, 2019

DECEMBER 5-14 LAS VEGAS

Bull rider Clayton Sellars, left, the 2018 PRCA | Resistol Bull Riding Rookie of the Year, just missed making the Wrangler NFR last year. That near miss fueled Sellars in 2019, as he placed fourth in the regular-season standings. Bareback rider Taylor Broussard snared his coveted inaugural bid to the Wrangler NFR with his last ride of the season at the Sheriff’s PRCA Rodeo in San Bernardino, Calif. Matt Cohen photos

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was receiving his Rookie of the Year Award last year during Round 6. “To be able to go in the arena put things in perspective about the NFR,” Sellars said. “I’m looking forward to the grand entry and just the whole experience. I do well at the big, electric shows, so I think I’m going to do really well there (in Vegas). I’m fired up.” UNDER THE WIRE Unlike Santos and Sellars, bareback rider Taylor Broussard snared his coveted inaugural bid to the Wrangler NFR on the last day – Sept. 29 – and his last ride of the season at the Sheriff ’s PRCA Rodeo in San Bernardino, Calif. He had a 77-point ride on Diamond G Rodeo’s Fifty Shades Of Bay. That ride gave Broussard the rodeo win and more importantly $4,611 for the

NFR, and it is a really, really good feeling. I don’t think it will sink in that I made it until I’m there. “I’m looking forward to nodding my head in those yellow bucking chutes. I should be the first out the first night, and I can’t wait until I get to nod my head and ride for that amount of money at the NFR. I’ve been dreaming of making the yellow bucking chutes since I was a kid, and I finally did it.” The total purse of the 2019 Wrangler NFR is $10 million. Outright round winners earn $26,231. Broussard thought he was going to see his Wrangler NFR qualification slip through his grasp. “All year long I was in the Top 15, but the last two weeks I was bumped out,” Broussard said. “Going into the last weekend, I was 16th, and every time the thought of not making it popped in my head, I would tell myself, ‘It’s still not over, I have a shot.’ I was the last bareback rider out in San Bernardino.

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14 Trenten Montero 15 Taylor Broussard

Winnemucca NV $80,757 Estherwood LA $79,271

SW 5 Stetson Jorgensen Blackfoot SW 14 Cameron Morman Glen Ullin

ID $90,220 ND $76,704 OK $88,927 CO $75,738 TX $84,307 NC $72,390 AR $71,190 AB $100,311 OK $91,071 MT $119,879 CA $101,408 OK $97,474 NM $90,421 UT $182,999 UT $119,561 GA $111,851 OK $108,160

TR-HD 9 Brenten Hall

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TR-HD 12 Tate Kirchenschlager Yuma

TR-HL 12 Hunter Koch TR-HL 13 Caleb Anderson TR-HL 15 Tyler Worley

Vernon

Mocksville Berryville wildwood

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10 Dawson Hay 11 Mitch Pollock 14 Colt Gordon

Winnemucca NV $99,542

Comanche Miles City

TD 2 Haven Meged TD 6 Taylor Santos TD 9 Michael Otero TD 10 Ty Harris TD 11 Tyler Milligan TD 13 Shad Mayfield

Creston

Weatherford TX $97,693 San Angelo TX $97,649

Pawhuska

Clovis Milford

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2 Stetson Wright 4 Clayton Sellars

Fruitland Park FL $129,191

10 Josh Frost

Randlett

14 Daylon Swearingen Rochelle

15 Trey Kimzey

Strong City

performance to slide into the No. 15 spot in the final regular-season standings with $79,271 – $1,745 more than 16th-place finisher Mason Clements. “It’s unbelievable that I made the NFR,” said Broussard, 26. “It seems like every call, every email I get says something about the

“The announcer said I was $3,000 out of the Top 15, and I put my head down and knew it was on. There was only one way I could make the NFR and that was to win the rodeo, and I did it. The way it happened blows my mind. It was unbelievable.”

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