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Current World Champions
August 15-19, 2023, 65th Annual
Team Roping (Header)
KALEB DRIGGERS
Career earnings: $2,447,388 2022 world standings place: 1st
2022 Wrangler NFR standings place: 2nd
2022 Wrangler NFR earnings: $112,830
2022 earnings: $340,708 World Titles: 2 (2021-22)
Wrangler NFR Qualifications: 10 (2011-14, 2016-19, 2021- 22)
Professional
2023 Highlights - Partner Junior Nogueira • Won the Reno (Nev.) Rodeo
Career Highlights
• 2022: (Partner Junior Nogueira) Clinched his second- straight PRCA Team Roping World Championship, compiling a team roping season-earnings record $340,708. Made his 10th NFR appearance, finishing second in the average standings with 71.4 seconds on nine head. Driggers placed in four rounds, winning $112,830. His best run came in Round 8, scoring a 4.0-second run to earn a split fifth-place finish. Won the Fort Worth (Texas) Stock Show & Rodeo, the Heart O Texas Rodeo (Waco), the Clark County Fair & Rodeo (Logandale, Nev.), the San Angelo (Texas) Cinch Chute- Out, the World’s Oldest Rodeo (Prescott, Ariz.), the Oakley Independence Day Rodeo (Oakley City, Utah), the St. Paul (Ore.) Rodeo, the Big Fork (Mont.) Summer ProRodeo, the Lea County PRCA Rodeo (Lovington, N.M.), the Rancho Mission Viejo Rodeo (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.), the Meagher County Labor Day Rodeo (White Sulphur Springs, Mont.) and the Springhill (La.) PRCA Rodeo. Co-champion at the Laramie (Wyo.) Jubilee Days, the Cache County Fair And Rodeo (Logan, Utah) and the Walla Walla (Wash.) Frontier Days
• 2021: (Partner Junior Nogueira) Won his first career world championship. He finished atop the world standings with $263,227. He earned $143,896 at the NFR, placing in six rounds and winning Round 4; Won the Mandan (N.D.) Rodeo Days, the St. Paul (Oregon) Rodeo, the Kansas (Phillipsburg) Biggest Rodeo, the Tri-State Rodeo (Fort Madison, Iowa) (Sept. 8th) and the Amarillo (Texas) Tri-State Fair and Rodeo. Co-champion of the Rooftop Rodeo (Estes Park, Colorado) and the Walla Walla (Wash.) Frontier Days. Won the Texas (Waco) Circuit Finals, with Lane Mitchell
• 2020: Finished 24th in the world standings with $34,640. Won the Matagorda County Fair & Rodeo (Bay City, Texas) and the Fort Bend County Fair & Rodeo, with
Junior Nogueira. Won the Douglas County Fair and Rodeo (Castle Rock, Colo.), with Carson Johnson
• 2019: (Partner Junior Nogueira) Won Round 9 and Round 10, and split the win in Round 8 to place in a total of six rounds to rank seventh in the average with 50.1 seconds on eight head at the Wrangler NFR. Finished 3rd in third world standings with $240,923. Won the Dodge City (Kan.) Roundup Rodeo, the Mineral Wells (Texas) PRCA Rodeo, the Wolf Point (Mont.) Wild Horse Stampede, the Cache County Fair And Rodeo (Logan, Utah) and the Magic Valley Stampede (Filer, Idaho). Co-champion at the Pasadena (Texas) Livestock Show & Rodeo and the Oakley Independence Day Rodeo (Oakley City, Utah)
• 2018: (Partner Junior Nogueira) Finished second in the world standings with $272,464. Placed second in the average at the Wrangler NFR with 45.50 seconds on nine head, earning $157,513. Placed in seven rounds. Won Round 1. Won the K-Days Rodeo (Edmonton, Alberta), the Fiesta Days Rodeo (Spanish Fork, Utah), the West Of The Pecos (Texas) Rodeo, the Molalla (Ore.) Buckeroo Rodeo, the Grey Snow Annual Rodeo (Perkins, Okla.) and the Steamboat Springs (Colo.) Pro Rodeo Series, July 27-28. Co-champion at the Deadwood (S.D) Days Of ‘76 Rodeo, the Beef Empire Days PRCA Rodeo (Garden City, Kan.) and the McCone County Fair PRCA Rodeo (Circle, Mont.)
• 2017: (Partner Junior Nogueira) Finished second in the world standings with $254,471. Placed seventh at the Wrangler NFR with $120,494. Placed in six rounds. Won Rounds 1 and 9.
Set a new NFR record for the fastest team roping time of 3.3 seconds. Won the Cody (Wyo.) Stampede, the Clovis (Calif.) Rodeo, the Snake River Stampede (Nampa, Idaho), the Rooftop Rodeo, (Estes Park, Colo.), the West Texas (Abilene) Fair & Rodeo, the Wolf Point (Mont.) Wild Horse Stampede, the Wrangler Champions Challenges (Redding, Calif.) and (Sioux Falls, S.D.), the Johnson County Sherriff’s Posse (Cleburne, Texas) and the Annual Fourth Celebration & PRCA Rodeo (Window Rock, Ariz.). Co-champion at the Santa Maria (Calif.) Elks Rodeo
• 2016: Co-champion in Round 5 and placed in six rounds to rank fourth at the Wrangler NFR. Finished second in the world standings with $230,284. Won the Justin Boots Playoffs (Puyallup, Wash.), the Spanish Fork (Utah) Fiesta Days Rodeo, the St. Paul (Ore.) Rodeo, the Beef Empire Days PRCA Rodeo (Garden City, Kan.), the North Central Rodeo Championship Rodeo (Medford, Wis.), the Eugene (Ore.) Pro Rodeo, the West Texas (Abilene) Fair & Rodeo, the Pasadena (Texas) Livestock Show & Rodeo, the Hugo (Okla.) PRCA Rodeo, the Caribou County Fair & Rodeo (Grace, Idaho), the Cherokee (Iowa) Chamber PRCA Rodeo and the Yellowstone River Round-Up (Billings, Mont.). Co-champion at the Oakley Independence Day Rodeo (Oakley City, Utah), the Strawberry Days Rodeo (Pleasant Grove, Utah), the Magic Valley Stampede (Filer, Idaho) and the Livingston (Mont.) Roundup