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Current World Champions
August 17-21, 2021, 63rd Annual
Team Roping (Header)
COLBY LOVELL
Career earnings: $1,108,578 2020 world standings place: 1st
2020 Wrangler NFR standings place: 13th
2020 NFR earnings: $122,327
2020 earnings: $187,836
Education: Blinn College (Bryan, Texas),
Sam Houston State University (Huntsville, Texas), degree in agricultural business
World Titles: 1 (2020)
Wrangler NFR Average Titles: 0
Wrangler NFR Qualifications: 7 (2010-13, 2015-16, 2020)
Professional
2020 Highlights - (Partner, Paul Eaves)
• 2020: (Partner Paul Eaves) Won rounds 8 and 10 and split the win in round 9 to win his first world title and place 13th in the average at the 2020 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo. Won the Auto Plaza Group PRCA Reginal Rodeo (Farmington, Mo.) and the West Texas Fair & Rodeo (Abilene). Co-champion at the Carson Community Rodeo and the Sikeston (Mo.) Jaycee Bootheel Rodeo. Won the Texas (Waco) Circuit Finals, with Ross Ashford
• 2019: Did not win any rodeos, finished 77th in the world standings with $15,891.
• 2018: Won the West Texas (Abilene) Fair & Rodeo, with Jade Corkill. Finished 114th in the world standings with $11,026
• 2017: Won the Dodge City (Kan.) Roundup Rodeo, with James Arnold. Won the Ram Texas (Waco) Circuit Finals Rodeo, with Paul Eaves. Won the Matagordo County Fair & Rodeo (Bay City, Texas), with Shane Philipp. Won the 46th Annual Bryan (Texas) Breakfast Lions Club PRCA Rodeo, with Corey Hendricks. Finished 63rd in the world standings with $22,077
• 2016: (Partner Travis Graves) Placed in two rounds to rank 12th at the Wrangler NFR. Won the Canby (Ore) Rodeo, the Kansas (Phillipsburg) Biggest Rodeo, the Wild Bill Hickok Rodeo (Abilene, Kan.) and the Rancho Mission Viejo Rodeo (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.). Co- champion at the Southwestern International PRCA Rodeo (El Paso, Texas), the Steamboat Springs (Colo.) Pro Rodeo Series (July 8-9) and the Sikeston (Mo.) Jaycee Bootheel Rodeo. Won the Goliad (Texas) County Fair PRCA Rodeo, with Will Woodfin. Won the Cody (Wyo.) Stampede Champions Challenge presented by Justin Boots, with Kory Koontz. Co-champion at the Wranglers Champions Challenge presented by Justin
Boots (Scottsdale, Ariz.), with Kory Koontz. Finished 11th in the world standings with $122,245
• 2015: (Partner Kory Koontz) Placed in six rounds to rank seventh in the average at the Wrangler NFR. Won the Justin Boots Championships (Omaha, Neb.), the Kitsap Stampede (Bremerton, Wash.), the Lewiston (Idaho) Roundup, the Wild Bill Hickok Rodeo (Abilene, Kan.), the Spring Classic (Mesquite, Texas), the Jayhawker Roundup Rodeo (Hill City, Kan.) and the XIT Rodeo & Reunion (Dalhart, Texas). Won the Freestone County PRCA Rodeo (Fairfield, Texas), with Justin Van Davis. Co- champion at the Justin Boots Playoffs (Puyallup, Wash.). Finished sixth in the world standings with $188,253
• 2014: (Partner Martin Lucero) Won the Waller County Fair & Rodeo (Hempstead, Texas) and the Los Fresnos (Texas) PRCA Rodeo. Co-champion at the Wrangler Champions Challenge (Rapid City, S.D.), with Kory Koontz. Co-champion at the Austin County Fair & Rodeo (Bellville, Texas) and the Crockett (Texas) Lions Club PRCA Rodeo. Finished 30th in the world standings with $39,684
• 2013: (Partner Martin Lucero) Won Round 8 of the Wrangler NFR with a time of 4.2 seconds and placed in four other rounds; finished 11th in the world standings with $110,526. Won the Deadwood (S.D.) Days of ‘76, the Poway (Calif.) Rodeo, the Southwestern International PRCA Rodeo (El Paso, Texas), the Great Plains Stampede Rodeo (Altus, Okla.) and the Spring Classic (Mesquite, Texas). Won the all-around at the Bell County PRCA Rodeo (Belton, Texas). Won the all-around and the team roping at the Fort Bend County Fair & Rodeo (Rosenberg, Texas), with Randall Richards. Won the all- around at the Goliad (Texas) County Fair PRCA Rodeo, the YMBL Championship Rodeo (Beaumont, Texas) and the Bryan (Texas) Breakfast Lions Club PRCA Rodeo. Co- champion at the Stephenville (Texas) Cowboy Capital Pro Rodeo and the Norco (Calif.) Mounted Posse Rodeo
Personal
5-11, 180 ... Wife, Kassidy (married Oct. 19, 2011); son, Levi ... Father, Joel, works at a therapeutic riding center in Trinity, Texas; mother, Amy Cannon, lives in Stephenville, Texas, and shows cutting horses and barrel races occasionally; two brothers, Joey Lovell and Sam Cannon ... Cousin Justin Lovell is also a PRCA roper, with whom Colby paired during most of the 2008 season ... Got
into rodeo because “my family’s done it forever” ... He started roping when he was 4 years old and won his first buckle when he was 7 ... Works on a ranch owned by his grandfather, Bob Samuel, when not on the road competing ... Enjoys playing basketball and hog hunting ... Graduated from Madisonville (Texas) High School in 2005 ... Favorite movies are “Lonesome Dove,” “The Hangover” and “True Grit” (1969