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30 – CANBY RODEO
Current World Champions
August 16-20, 2022, 64th Annual
Team Roping (Header)
KALEB DRIGGERS
1 WORLD TITLES
9 NFR QUALIFICATIONS $152,956 PRCA EARNINGS 32 AGE
MEMBER SINCE 2008
Hoboken, GA
HOMETOWN
Career earnings: $2,102,114
2021 world standings place: 1st
2021 Wrangler NFR standings place: 3rd 2021 Wrangler NFR earnings: $143,896 2021 earnings: $263,227
World Titles: 1 (2021)
Wrangler NFR qualifications: 9 (2011-14, 2016-19, 2021)
Professional
2022 Highlights - Partner Junior Nogueira
• Won the Fort Worth (Texas) Stock Show & Rodeo
• Won the Heart O Texas Rodeo (Waco)
• Won the Clark County Fair & Rodeo (Logandale, Nev.)
• Won the San Angelo (Texas) Cinch Chute-Out
• Won the World’s Oldest Rodeo (Prescott, Ariz.)
• Won the Oakley Independence Day Rodeo (Oakley City, Utah)
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
Awards
Overall and team roping (heading) PRCA Rookie of the Year, 2009
Personal
6-0, 170 ... wife, Nicole is a barrel horse trainer ... Parents, Nick and Laura Driggers, own Lazy D Performance Horses in Albany, Ga.; sister, Kelsey, also competes in rodeo ... Nick has been training horses for more than a quarter of a century ... Started roping with longtime family friend Brad Culpepper, a seven-time Wrangler NFR qualifier, in 2008
• Won the St. Paul (Ore.) Rodeo
• Won the Big Fork (Mont.) Summer ProRodeo
• Co-champion at the Laramie (Wyo.) Jubilee Days Career Highlights
• 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