PRCA Media Guide - Cowboys Part 2

★ ★ 2010: Won the Northwest Florida Championship Rodeo (Bonifay), with Brad Culpepper, the Gooding (Idaho) ProRodeo, with Travis Woodard, the Spokane (Wash.) Interstate Rodeo, with Mike Beers, and co-champion at the Canby (Ore.) Rodeo, with Travis Woodard. Finished 27th in the world standings with $36,863 ★ ★ 2009: (Partner Brad Culpepper) Won the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo, the Lakeside (Calif.) Rodeo, the Northwest Florida Championship Rodeo (Bonifay) and the Florida Gateway Pro Rodeo (Lake City). Co-champion at the State Fair of Louisiana ProRodeo (Shreveport). Finished 16th in the world standings as a rookie with earnings of $61,446 Awards Overall and team roping (heading) PRCA Rookie of the Year, 2009 Amateur National High School Finals Rodeo All-Around Rookie of the Year, 2005 Personal 6-0, 170 … Single … Parents, Nick and Laura Driggers, own Lazy D Performance Horses in Albany, Ga.; sister, Kelsey, also competes in rodeo … Nick has been training horses for more than a quarter of a century … Started roping with longtime family friend Brad Culpepper, a seven-time Wrangler NFR qualifier, in 2008

Tyson Durfey

Tie-down roping

Event:

2018 world standings place: 4 th 2018 Wrangler NFR standings place: 8 th 2018 Wrangler NFR earnings:

$67,538 $194,056 $1,729,735

2018 earnings: Career earnings:

Nov. 27, 1983, in Savannah, Mo.

Born:

Weatherford, Texas

Residence: Joined PRCA: World titles:

2003

1 (2016)

11 (2007-11, 2013-18)

Wrangler NFR qualifications: Wrangler NFR average titles:

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Professional 2018 Highlights

★ ★ Placed in three rounds at the Wrangler NFR, winning Round Round 7. He finished fourth in the world standings with $194,056 and eighth at the Wrangler NFR with a 80.3-second time on nine head. He earned $67,538 at the Wrangler NFR ★ ★ Won the Washington (Puyallup) State Fair Pro Rodeo

★ ★ Won the Reno (Nev.) Rodeo ★ ★ Won Rodeo Austin (Texas) ★ ★ Won the Strathmore (Alberta) Stampede ★ ★ Won the RAM Columbia River Circuit Finals (Yakima, Wash.) ★ ★ Won the Molalla (Ore.) Buckeroo Rodeo ★ ★ Won the Woodward (Okla.) Elks Rodeo ★ ★ Won the Old Fort Days Rodeo (Fort Smith, Ark.) ★ ★ Won the Wichita Falls (Texas) PRCA Rodeo ★ ★ Won the Cache County Fair and Rodeo (Logan, Utah)

PRORODEO COWBOYS

Career Highlights ★ ★ 2017: Won the Rancho MissionViejo Rodeo (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.), theWestTexas (Abilene) Fair & Rodeo, the Missoula (Mont.) Stampede, the Bruce (Alberta) Stampede and the Bozeman (Mont.) Stampede. Co-champion at the Spokane (Wash.) Interstate Rodeo. Finished 12th in the world standings with $139,845 and 10th at theWrangler NFR. He placed in two rounds at the Wrangler NFR with a best of third in Round 10. He earned $32,423 at the Wrangler NFR ★ ★ 2016: Won Round 6 and placed in six rounds to rank second at theWrangler NFR. Climbed from 14th to first in the world standings with $212,445. Won the Pasadena (Texas) Livestock Show & Rodeo, the Canby (Ore) Rodeo, the Eugene (Ore.) Pro Rodeo, the Cowboy Capital Of The World PRCA Rodeo (Stephenville, Texas), the Molalla (Ore.) Buckeroo Rodeo and the Dinosaur Roundup Rodeo (Vernal, Utah) ★ ★ 2015: Split the Round 3 and 10 wins and placed in two other rounds at the Wrangler NFR. Co-champion at the Moses Lake (Wash.) Round-Up. Finished eighth in the world standings with $153,983 ★ ★ 2014: Placed in two rounds of the Wrangler NFR. Finished 14th in the world standings with $83,396 ★ ★ 2013: Placed in four rounds of theWrangler NFR; finished seventh in the world standings with $124,979. Won the Wrangler Champions Challenge (Amarillo, Texas); the Old Fort Days Rodeo (Fort Smith, Ark.); the Omak (Wash.)

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