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August 15-19, 2023, 65th Annual
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Current World Champions
Steer Wrestling
TYLER WAGUESPACK
Career earnings: $1,715,391
2021 world standings place: 1st
2021 Wrangler NFR standings place: 2nd 2021 Wrangler NFR earnings: $213,348 2021 earnings: $289,791
World Titles: 3 (2016, 2018, 2021)
Wrangler NFR Average Titles: 2 (2016, 2018) Wrangler NFR Qualifications: 7 (2015-21)
Professional
2022 Highlights
• Won the San Angelo (Texas) Cinch Chute-Out
• Won the Fiesta Days Rodeo (Spanish Fork, Utah)
• Co-champion at the National Peanut Festival Rodeo (Dothan, Ala.)
Career Highlights
• 2021: Won his third world championship in his seventh appearance at the NFR. He finished with $289,791 to claim the top spot in the world standings. He earned an NFR steer wrestling record $213,348. He placed in nine rounds and won Round 7. Won the Oxford (Miss) La- fayette Sportsplex Pro Rodeo, the Greeley (Colo.) Stam- pede, the Canby (Oregon) Rodeo, the Gooding (Idaho) Pro Rodeo, the White County Fair Rodeo (Searcy, Ark.), the Othello (Wash.) PRCA Rodeo and the Springhill (La.) PRCA Rodeo. Co-champion at the Heart O Texas (Waco) Rodeo, the Matagorda County Fair & Livestock Exposi- tion (Bay City, Texas) and the Durant (Okla.) Pro Rodeo
• 2020: Split the win in Rounds 2, 9 and 10 at the Wran- gler NFR and finished third in the average with 51.4 sec- onds on 10 head. Won the Black Hills Roundup (Belle Fourche, S.D.), the San Antonio (Texas) Stock Show & Rodeo and the Mesquite (Texas) Championship Rodeo (Aug. 22nd)
• 2019: Qualified for his fifth consecutive Wrangler Na- tional Finals Rodeo. He finished 10th in the NFR aver- age, earning $80,795. He placed in four rounds, and won Round 2 (3.6 seconds) and Round 6 (3.8 seconds). He finished seventh in the world standings with $177,925. Won the San Antonio (Texas) Stock Show & Rodeo, the Spanish Fork (Utah) Fiesta Days Rodeo, the Dixie Na- tional Rodeo (Jackson, Miss.), the Leesville (La.) Lions Club Rodeo, the Kit Carson County Pro Rodeo (Burl- ington, Colo.) and the Tri-State Rodeo Cinch Shoot-Out (Fort Madison, Iowa)
• 2018: Won his second Steer Wrestling World Cham- pionship and his second Wrangler NFR average title with 44.5-second time on 10 head, wining Round 1, and Round 8 and placing in four other rounds. Won the Clo- vis (Calif.) Rodeo, the Caldwell (Idaho) Night Rodeo, the Southeastern Livestock Exposition (Montgomery, Ala.),
the Johnson County Sheriff’s Posse (Cleburne, Texas) and the McCone County Fair PRCA Rodeo (Circle, Mont.) • 2017: Won the West of the Pecos (Texas) Rodeo and the Sitting Bull Stampede (Mobridge, S.D.); finished fourth in the world standings with $231,277, and 11th in the av- erage at the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo. Placed in eight rounds at the Wrangler NFR, winning Round 1 and Round 10.
• 2016: Won the world title and the average by splitting the win in three rounds and placing in eight rounds of the Wrangler NFR. Waguespack set a new single-sea- son steer wrestling total money record by finishing the year with $298,676. He also won the RAM Top Gun Award for most money earned at the Wrangler NFR, $213,218. Won the All-American ProRodeo Finals (Waco, Texas), the Spanish Fork (Utah) Fiesta Days Rodeo, the Wran- gler Champions Challenge presented by Justin Boots (Kissimmee, Fla.), the Wrangler Champions Challenge presented by Justin Boots (Rapid City, S.D.), the Wran- gler Champion Challenge presented by Justin Boots (Spanish Fork, Utah), Won the Oakdale (Calif.) Saddle Club Rodeo, the Guymon (Okla.) Pioneer Days Rodeo, the Walker County Fair & Rodeo (Huntsville, Texas), the Georgia National Jr. Livestock Show & Rodeo (Perry, Ga.), the Southern Miss Coca-Cola Classic Rodeo ((Hatties- burg, Miss.), the ABC Pro Rodeo (Lubbock, Texas) and the Mountain Valley Stampede (Heber City, Utah). Co- champion at the Four States Fair & Rodeo (Texarkana, Ark.)
• 2015: Won Round 7 and placed in two other rounds at his first Wrangler NFR. Won the Red Bluff (Calif.) Round-Up, the Spanish Fork (Utah) Fiesta Days Rodeo, the Lewiston (Idaho) Roundup, the Wild Bill Hickok Ro- deo (Abilene, Kan.) and the Central Ark PRCA Rodeo (El Paso, Ark.). Co-champion at the Eugene (Ore.) ProRo- deo. Finished 11th in the world standings with $135,591
Personal
6-1, 190 ... Married NFR Barrel Racer Sarah Rose McDon- ald ... Parents, Michael and Vicki Waguespack; sisters, Joanie, Tobie and Mandie. Michael was a PRCA steer wrestler in the 1990s and still occasionally hazes for Ty- ler; cousin Randi Robert qualified for the National High School Finals Rodeo ... Started competing in bulldog- ging and tie-down roping while in junior high school ... Enjoys hunting and fishing ... Graduated from East Ascension High School in Gonzales, La., with a class of about 300 ... Four-time World Champion Steer Wrestler Ote Berry is a mentor ... Favorite rodeos are Cheyenne (Wyo.) Frontier Days and California Rodeo Salinas ... Fa- vorite movie is “Step Brothers”