With the National Finals Rodeo just around the corner we thought we should start to share the local cowboys and cowgirls who will be representing Montana and Wyoming that have made it to the 2014 WNFR Finals. We wish them the best of luck! J.R. Vezain Events: Bareback Riding, Saddle Bronc Riding, Bull Riding Born: 2/22/1992 Joined PRCA: 2011 PRCA Career Earnings: $465,071.00 World Titles Won: 0 WNFR Qualifications: 3 (2012-14) Current Residence: Cowley, Wyo. 2014 world standings place: 10th 2014 earnings: $70,208 Tour Finale qualifications: 3 (2012-14) RNCFR qualifications: 1 (2011) Education: Vernon (Texas) College, Casper (Wyo.) College Professional 2014 Highlights • Won the Lea County Fair & PRCA Rodeo (Lovington, N.M.) • Won the Yellowstone River Round-up (Billings, Mont.) • Won the Larimer County Fair & Rodeo (Loveland, Colo.) • Won the Arcadia (Fla.) All-Florida Championship Rodeo • Won A Tribute to the Great American Cowboy (Casper, Wyo.) • Won the Maah Daah Hey Stampede (Grassy Butte, N.D.) • Co-champion at the Okotoks (Alberta) ProRodeo Career Highlights • 2013: Placed in five rounds of the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo on his way to finishing third in the average and seventh in the world standings with $143,924. Won the Clovis (Calif.) Rodeo; the Red Bluff (Calif.) Round-Up; the Yellowstone River Round-Up (Billings, Mont.); the Dinosaur Roundup Rodeo (Vernal, Utah); the Buc Days ProRodeo (Corpus Christi, Texas) and the Pincher Creek (Alberta) ProRodeo. Co-champion at the San Antonio (Texas) Stock Show & Rodeo Amateur National High School Rodeo Bareback Riding Champion, 2009; finished third in NHSR all-around and sixth in the bareback riding, 2010. College National Finals Rodeo all-around champion, 2011 Awards Resistol Bareback Riding Rookie of the Year, 2011 Personal 5-8, 140 … Single … Mother, Shilo Christman; father, Justin Jarrett (a former bareback rider) … His given name is Greg Duncan Vezain, but he has always gone by J.R. because an aunt took to calling him “Junior” – even before he was born … J.R. learned to ride from his maternal uncle, Duncan Vezain, during summers spent in Bridger, Mont. … A two-time Wyoming high school wrestling champion at Rocky Mountain High School (Byron, Wyo.); he says the sport prepared him for rodeo “because it taught me a lot of mental toughness (and the training produced) a lot of strength” … Attended Kelly Timberman’s rodeo school as a 16-year-old and credits the 2004 world champion with teaching him to ride bareback horses the right way … Transferred from Vernon (Texas) College to Casper (Wyo.) College in 2011 and is working toward an associate degree in business; he would like to one day run his own business making saddles and other leather products. He started working with leather at 9 years old while in a 4-H program.
Posted on: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 23:44:25 +0000
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