Page 31 - Canby Rodeo 2023

August 15-19, 2023, 65th Annual
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Current World Champions
Team Roping (Heeler)
JUNIOR NOGUEIRA
Career earnings: $2,121,731 2022 world standings place: 1st
2022 Wrangler NFR standings place: 2nd
2022 Wrangler NFR earnings: $112,830
2022 earnings: $340,708 World Titles: 3 (AA 2016) (TR 2021-22)
Wrangler NFR Qualifications: 9 (2014-2021) Professional
2023 Highlights - Partner Kaleb Driggers
• Won the Reno (Nev.) Rodeo
Career Highlights
• 2022: (Partner - Kalab Driggers) Claimed his second- straight PRCA Team Roping World Championship, third overall, earning a team roping season-earnings record $340,708. Qualified for a ninth-straight NFR appearance, ending second in the average with 71.4 seconds on nine head. Nogueira placed in four rounds, winning $112,830. In Round 8, they notched their best time of the week, 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-Kaleb Driggers) Won his first team roping heeler world championship. He finished atop the world standings with $277,612 and earned $143,896 at the NFR. He placed in six rounds and won 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. Co-champion at the North Texas State Fair & Rodeo (Denton, Texas)
• 2020: (Partner Cody Snow) Finished 12th in the world standings with $114,199. Won Round 6 and placed in two other rounds to finish 13th in the average with 37.4 seconds on five head and take home $56,115 at the NFR. Won the Mesquite (Texas) Championship Rodeo (June
6), the Cache County Fair and Rodeo (Logan, Utah), the Annual World’s Oldest Continuous Rodeo (Payson, Ariz.) and the Gem State Classic Pro Rodeo (Blackfoot, Idaho). Co-champion at the Mesquite (Texas) Championship Rodeo (June 13). Won the Matagorda County Fair & Rodeo (Bay City, Texas) and the Fort Bend County Fair & Rodeo with Kaleb Driggers
• 2019 (Partner Kaleb Driggers) 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. Earned $122,468 at the NFR. 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). Finished second in the world with $238,243.
• 2018: (Partner Kaleb Driggers) Finished second in the world standings with $273,448. Placed second in the average at the Wrangler NFR, 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 78 Rodeo, the Beef Empire Days PRCA Rodeo (Garden City, Kan.) and the McCone County Fair PRCA Rodeo (Circle, Mont.). Won the all- around at the Four States Fair & Rodeo (Texarkana, Ark.)
• 2017: (Partner Kaleb Driggers) Finished 5th in the all- around with $256,923, second in team roping with $255,417 and 143rd in tie-down roping with $7,324. Placed in six rounds at the Wrangler NFR and 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 Challenge presented by Justin Boots (Redding, Calif.), the Wrangler Champions Challenge presented by Justin Boots (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