Page 29 - 2022 Rodeo Program

August 16-20, 2022, 64th Annual
29 – CANBY RODEO
Current World Champions
Tie Down Roping
CALEB SMIDT
Career earnings: $1,707,089
2021 world standings place: 1st
2021 Wrangler NFR standings place: 1st 2021 Wrangler NFR earnings: $191,576 2021 earnings: $318,456
Education: Wharton County (Texas) Junior College and Sam Houston State University (Huntsville, Texas), bachelor’s
degree in agricultural business
World titles: 3 (2015, 2018, 2021)
Wrangler NFR average titles: 2 (2015, 2018) Wrangler NFR Qualifications: 7 (2013, 2015-19, 2021)
Professional
2022 Highlights
All-Around
• Won the Guymon (Okla.) Pioneer Days Rodeo Tie-Down Roping
• Won the Calgary Stampede (Alberta)
• Won the St. Paul (Ore.) Rodeo
• Won the Home Of Champions Rodeo (Red Lodge, Mont.)
• Won the Big Fork (Mont.) Summer ProRodeo
• Co-champion at the Strawberry Days Rodeo (Pleasant Grove, Utah)
Career Highlights
• 2021: Won his third PRCA Tie-Down Roping World Championship with $318,456 and finished second in the all-around world standings. He won Round 3 and placed in seven other rounds at the NFR. Smidt was a model of consistency taking home the average title with a time of 83.1 seconds on 10 head. He took home $191,576 from Las Vegas. Won the all-around at the Gladewater (Texas) Round-Up Rodeo, the Coleman (Texas) PRCA Rodeo, the Kansas (Phillipsburg) Biggest Rodeo and the Wild Bill Hickok Rodeo (Abilene, Kansas). Won team roping at the Coleman (Texas) PRCA Rodeo and the XIT Rodeo & Reunion (Dalhart, Texas), with B.J. Dugger. Won the tie- down roping at the Black Hills Roundup (Belle Fourche, South Dakota), the Crooked River Roundup (Prineville, Oregon), the Wild Bill Hickok Rodeo (Abilene, Kansas) and the Buffalo (Texas) Pro Rodeo presented by Bill Fick Ford
• 2020: Finished 16th in the world standings with $64,595. Won the San Angelo (Texas) Rodeo and the Deadwood
(S.D.) Days of 76 Rodeo
• 2019: He placed in three rounds at the Wrangler NFR and finished sixth in the average. Won The American (Arlington, Texas), the Sheridan WYO Rodeo, the Greeley (Colo.) Stampede, the Snake River Stampede (Nampa, Idaho), the Kansas (Phillipsburg) Biggest Rodeo, the Tri-State Rodeo (Fort Madison, Iowa) and the Tri-State Rodeo Cinch Shoot-Out (Fort Madison, Iowa). Finished 7th in the world standings with $196,900.
• 2018: Placed in six rounds, including winning Round 1 as he went on to win his second world championship, finishing the season with $232,817. He also won the Wrangler NFR average for the second time in his career with an 83.7-second time on 10 head. He earned $142,846 at the Wrangler NFR, the most of any tie-down roper at the 2018 Wrangler NFR. Won the all-around and tie- down roping at the Pasadena (Texas) Livestock Show & Rodeo. Won the Dodge City (Kan.) Roundup Rodeo, the Rodeo de Santa Fe (N.M.), the Greeley (Colo.) Stampede, the Rooftop Rodeo (Estes Park, Colo.), the Rodeo Corpus Christi (Texas) and the Dixie National Rodeo (Jackson, Miss.). Co-champion at the Livingston (Mont.) Roundup and the Matagorda County Fair & Rodeo (Bay City, Texas)
Canby Rodeo 2021 Event Winners:
BareBack: Saddle Bronc: Bull Riding:
Tie Down Roping: Steer Wrestling: Team Roping:
Clayton Biglow K’s Thompson Laramie Mosley John Douch
Tyler Waguespack Coy Rahlmann Douglas Rich Destri Davenport
Barrel Racing:
Break-Away Roping: Annie Minor