Events:  Tie-down roping, team roping (header), steer roping

Born:  Sept. 21, 1973, in Rosenburg, Texas
Residence:  Hico, Texas
Joined PRCA:  1994

2009 World Standings place:  9th (TD)
2009 earnings:  $78,583 (TD)
Career earnings:  $2,577,650 (prior to 2009 NFR)

World titles:  6 (TD 1997-98, 2001, 2003, 2006; AA 2001)
Wrangler NFR qualifications:  15 (TD 1994-2001, 2003-09)
NFSR qualifications:  3 (1999-01)

Tour Finale titles: 1
   Summer Finale:  2004
Tour Finale qualifications:  14
   Pace Chute-out:  2000, 2003-06
   Summer Finale:  2000-01, 2003-04, 2006
   Championship:  2003-06
Education:  Vernon (Texas) Regional Junior College

Professional
2009 Highlights
• Won the Cheyenne (Wyo.) Frontier Days Rodeo.
• Won the Santa Rosa Round Up (Vernon, Texas).

2008 Highlights
• Won the Roping Fiesta (San Angelo, Texas).
• Won the Southwestern International PRCA Rodeo (El Paso, Texas).
• Won the West Texas Fair and Rodeo (Abilene, Texas).
• Won the Lea County Fair and Rodeo (Lovington, N.M.). 
• Won the Sheridan (Wyo.) Rodeo.
• Won the Northwest Montana Fair and Rodeo (Kalispell).

• Finished the year ranked 9th in the world with $120,618 and was 8th in the average at the NFR winning $48,948.

Career Highlights
• 2007– Won the average title at the Wrangler NFR picking up $103,522 and finishing the year ranked 3rd in the world with $183,117. Won the average title at the Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo (Colorado Springs, Colo.), the Dinosaur Roundup Rodeo (Vernal, Utah), the West of the Pecos (Texas) Rodeo, the Fourth of July Youth Celebration & PRCA Rodeo (Window Rock, Ariz), the San Angelo (Texas) Stock Show and Rodeo and the Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show (Fort Worth, Texas).

• 2006– Won his fifth tie-down roping title in record fashion setting a new Wrangler NFR earnings record with $132,652 in earnings and a new single-season earnings record of $298,112. He also won the average title with a total time of 84.3 seconds on 10 head, just three-tenths of a second off Fred Whitfield’s record (84.0) set in 1997. He placed in nine rounds, winning four of those rounds. He won the second round in 7.2 seconds, finished in a three-way tie in the fourth round with a 7.4, tied for the win in the eighth and tenth rounds with times of 7.6 and 7.5, respectively.Became the eighth cowboy in PRCA history to surpass the $2 million mark in career earnings after winning the Sikeston (Mo.) Jaycee Boothill Rodeo. Finished the year as the regular-season leader with $165,460 breaking his own regular-season earnings record; won the Heart O’ Texas Fair & Rodeo (Waco, Texas), the West Texas Fair & Rodeo (Abilene, Texas), the Ogden (Utah) Pioneer Days Rodeo, the Dodge City (Kan.) Roundup, the Home of Champions (Red Lodge, Mont.), the Cowboy Capital of the World Pro Rodeo (Stephenville, Texas), the Laughlin (Nev.) River Stampede, the Wrangler ProRodeo Tour Round title at the Cheyenne (Wyo.) Frontier Days Rodeo and the California Rodeo Salinas; won the short round at RodeoHouston and finished second on the average and won the Wrangler ProRodeo Tour Round and the average title at the San Angelo (Texas) Stock Show and Rodeo.

• 2005 – Won the first round of the Wrangler NFR with a time of 7.4 seconds, but strained his left groin when dismounting his horse. He continued to compete, winning the fourth round in a time of 7.1 seconds and the 10th round in 6.7 seconds. He won $85,817 during the 10-day event, more than any other tie-down roper at the 2005 Wrangler NFR; won the Magic Valley Stampede (Filer, Idaho) and the Molalla (Ore.) Buckeroo. Finished the year ranked second in the world with $164,640.

• 2004 – Finished fourth in the all-around world standings with $163,032, fourth in the tie-down roping with $149,213 and 20th in the steer roping with $13,019; finished sixth it the Wrangler NFR average in tie-down roping picking up $49,815; won RodeoHouston Clovis (Calif.) Rodeo; on tie-down roping and all-around title at Walker County Fair and Rodeo (Huntsville, Texas); won the Tour round title at Caldwell (Idaho) Night Rodeo; won tie-down and steer roping titles at Lewiston (Idaho) Round-Up; won the Pace Picante ProRodeo Challenge title (Omaha, Neb.) with a semifinal time of 7.0 seconds setting a new arena record; placed in four out of 10 rounds at the Wrangler NFR, winning Round 1 with a time of 6.9 seconds.

• 2003 – Set a world and arena record in Round 10 with a 6.5-second run at the Wrangler NFR to win the world (Ricky Canton set a new world record in 2005 with a 6.3-second run); won Round 3 with a 7.0-second run, Round 6 in 7.1 seconds, Round 7 in 7.0 seconds and Round 10 in 6.5 seconds at the Wrangler NFR. Was second in the aggregate at the Wrangler NFR; co-champion tie-down roper at Southwestern Exposition Livestock Show (Fort Worth, Texas); won tie-down roping and all-around title at Guymon (Okla.) Pioneer Days Rodeo; won Sheridan (Wyo.) Rodeo and Dodge City (Kan.) Rodeo Roundup; finished the year with $212,366 in earnings in tie-down roping, was 32nd in steer roping with $9,658 and was second in the all-around with $222,025.

• 2002 – Injured.

• 2001 – World all-around and tie-down roping champion; Regular-season tie-down roping earnings record ($152,670); tied PRCA single-run tie-down roping record (6.7 seconds at Copenhagen Cup Finale in Dallas); won all-around at Pendleton (Ore.) Round-Up, Reno (Nev.) Rodeo; won tie-down roping titles at Greeley Independence Stampede, Old Fort Days Rodeo (Fort Smith, Ark.) and Cheyenne (Wyo.) Frontier Days.

• 2000 – Texas Circuit Finals Rodeo all-around champion; Copenhagen Cup Finale (Mesquite) (now called the Pace Challenge) tie-down roping runner-up; won all-around titles at Guymon (Okla.) Pioneer Days; won Cowboy Capital of the World Rodeo (Stephenville, Texas) all-around and tie-down roping titles; won tie-down roping title at Laughlin (Nev.) River Stampede and Angelina County Benefit Rodeo (Lufkin, Texas).

• 1999 – Won all-around and tie-down roping titles at Phoenix (Ariz.) National Stock Show Rodeo; won all-around titles at Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, Ellensburg (Wash.) Rodeo and Cheyenne (Wyo.) Frontier Days; won Calgary Stampede $50,000 bonus round tie-down title.

• 1998 – Won the Calgary Stampede $50,000 bonus round tie-down title; won tie-down title and all-around at Cheyenne (Wyo.) Frontier Days; PRCA tie-down roping season earnings record ($222,794); NFR tie-down roping aggregate champion; world champion.

• 1997 – Won his first world title; DNCFR tie-down roping champion; set the tie-down roping arena record (6.8 seconds) at the NILE Rodeo (Billings, Mont.).

• 1996 – Won the Ellensburg (Wash.) Rodeo.

Awards
PRCA Resistol Overall Rookie of the Year, 1994. Horse Express on Heir (nickname Luke) that he rides won the PRCA/AQHA Tie-down roping Horse of the Year 2006.

Personal
6-0, 200...Wife, Jenny; daughter, Saylor; son, Cody Blake; stepson Hunter...Hobbies hunting and football...During the ninth round of the 2001 Wrangler NFR, he tore his anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), medial collateral ligament (MCL) and the patellar tendon, requiring three surgeries that kept him out of competition all year…In 2003, his horse Casino carried him to a record-setting run and another world title.