Pro Rodeo

All-Around Champion Cowboy

Trevor Brazile of Decatur, Texas, successfully defended his unofficial title of world’s best cowboy and roped in his second straight All-Around Champion Cowboy belt buckle at the 2003 National Finals Rodeo held Dec. 5-14 at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas. The 27-year-old finished with a near-record earnings total of $294,839. Brazile is just the 10th cowboy to win back-to-back world all-around titles and did so in dominating fashion, specializing in three events (tie-down roping, team roping and steer roping). Tie-down roper, and 2001 all-around champ, Cody Ohl finished second with $222,025.

The Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) title of all-around world champion cowboy goes to the rodeo athlete who wins the most prize money in a single year in two or more events, earning a minimum of $3,000 in each event. Only prize money earned in sanctioned PRCA rodeos is counted. From 1929-44, all-around champions were named by the Rodeo Association of America (earnings for those years are not available).

Multiple winners: Ty Murray (7); Tom Ferguson and Larry Mahan (6); Jim Shoulders (5); Joe Beaver, Lewis Feild and Dean Oliver (3); Everett Bowman, Trevor Brazile, Louis Brooks, Clay Carr, Bill Linderman, Phil Lyne, Gerald Roberts, Casey Tibbs and Harry Tompkins (2).