2018 Media Guide - Cowboys

2017 ProRodeo Top Cowboys (continued) ★ ★ 2007: Won Round 2 at NFSR en route to fourth-place finish in average. Won XIT Rodeo & Reunion (Dalhart, Texas) and the Prairie Circuit Steer Roping Finals (Bucyrus, Kan.). Finished seventh in the world standings with $41,625 ★ ★ 2006: Was injured in the fifth round of the NFSR and had to withdraw from the competition. Won the XIT Rodeo & Reunion (Dalhart, Texas) and Coleman (Texas) PRCA Rodeo. Finished ninth in the world with $33,201 ★ ★ 2005: Won the Lewiston (Idaho) Round-Up and the Parker County Sheriff’s Posse Frontier Days Pro Rodeo (Weatherford, Texas). Finished sixth in the world with $36,548 and was eighth in the average at the NFSR ★ ★ 2004: Won the SheridanWYO Rodeo and won the year-end steer roping title in the Prairie Circuit. Finished fourth in the world with $41,581 ★ ★ 2003: Won the steer roping title at the Inter-State Rodeo (Coffeyville, Kan.) and was the Ben Johnson and Wesley Sims steer roping champion ★ ★ 2002: Qualified for the NFSR despite suffering a broken leg in July and missing most of the summer ★ ★ 2001: Won the average title at the NFSR (Amarillo,Texas) in record time of 114.5 seconds on 10 head.Won theWest of the Pecos (Texas) Rodeo ★ ★ 2000: Won the Cowboy Capital of theWorld Rodeo (Stephenville,Texas); the Sandhills Stock Show& Rodeo (Odessa, Texas) and the Dodge City (Kan.) Round-Up ★ ★ 1999: Won the average title at the NFSR (Guthrie, Okla.), earning $17,365, the second highest total at the event. Won the Sandhills Stock Show & Rodeo (Odessa, Texas); the Dodge City (Kan.) Roundup and the Wyoming State Fair (Douglas) ★ ★ 1997: Won the Walla Walla (Wash.) Fair & Frontier Days; the Will Rogers Stampede (Claremore, Okla.) and the Woodward (Okla.) Elks Rodeo Awards PRCA Resistol Steer Roping Rookie of the Year, 1992 Personal 5-11, 190 …Wife, Shelly; sons, Cole and Caden … Hobbies include golf and hunting … Graduated from Chaparral High School in Anthony, Kan. … Started competing in rodeo in 1975 … Parents are Phillip and Marcella, and he has two brothers and three sisters … Favorite sports team is the Green Bay Packers … Rodeo idol is Guy Allen … Inducted into the Pratt (Kan.) Community College Athletic Hall of Fame on March 3, 2012; he served as Pratt’s rodeo coach from 1991-2000

Tyler Pearson

Steer wrestling

Event:

1st 2nd

2017 world standings place: 2017 NFR standings place :

$155,538 $265,457 $591,412

2017 NFR earnings: 2017 earnings: Career earnings:

March 19, 1985, in Louisville, Miss.

Born:

Louisville, Miss.

Residence: Joined PRCA: World titles:

2006

PRORODEO COWBOYS

1 (2017)

2 (2013, 2017)

Wrangler NFR qualifications: Tour Finale qualifications:

1 (2013) 1 (2009)

RNCFR qualifications:

University of West Alabama, pursuing a degree in business

Education:

Professional 2017 Highlights ★ ★ Won the Wrangler Champions Challenge presented by Justin Boots (Sioux Falls, S.D.) ★ ★ Won the Lawton (Okla.) Rangers Rodeo ★ ★ Won La Fiesta de los Vaqueros (Tucson, Ariz.) ★ ★ Won the Silver State Stampede (Elko, Nev.) ★ ★ Won the Hugo (Okla.) PRCA Rodeo ★ ★ Won the Johnson County Sherriff’s Posse (Cleburne, Texas) ★ ★ Won the Rose City Roundup (Tyler, Texas) ★ ★ Co-champion at the Avi River Stampede PRCA Rodeo (Fort Mohave, Ariz.) Career Highlights ★ ★ 2016: Finished 330th in the world standings with $1,504

★ ★ 2015: Won the Angelina County Benefit Rodeo (Lufkin, Texas), the Southeastern Pro Rodeo (Ocala, Fla.) and the Moses Lake (Wash.) Round-Up. Co-champion at the Inter-State Rodeo (Coffeyville, Kan.). Finished 18th in the world standings with $56,684 ★ ★ 2014: Won the Arcadia (Fla.) All-Florida Championship Rodeo and the Red Desert Roundup (Rock Springs, Wyo.) Won the all-around and steer wrestling at the Okeechobee (Fla.) Cattlemen’s Spring Rodeo and the Cotton Blossom Roundup (Nashville, Ga.). Finished 30th in the world standings with $34,875

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