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Fourth-generation cowboy and 4-time WNFR qualifier Jordan Spears is the lone California cowboy on the bull riding roster of the 2019 National Finals Rodeo. With $121,548 in his PRCA bank, Spears solidified his fourth trip to the big show in the number 9 position of the PRCA World Standings.
The West Coast bull rider competed in 89 rodeos winning money in 41 or 46%. Spears won San Angelo Stock Show and Rodeo and 10 other bull-riding rodeo event titles, but his big boost came from a $27,470 windfall as the champion of the Ellensburg Xtreme Bulls Tour final in September. Prior to June he had seen the inside of the top 20 The Redding, California native now living in Oregon did not hit his stride until June when he was still on the outside of the top 20. The last six weeks of the season, he won $66,261.
Spears, now 27 is no stranger to the Thomas and Mack Arena. With PRCA career earnings excess of a half a million dollars, the 2010 California High School State Bull Riding Champion qualified in 2014, 2016, and 2017. He finished 18th in 2018 just outside the NFR window with 2018 earnings of $91,009.
In 2017 he placed in three rounds of the Wrangler NFR and seventh in the average with 254 points on three head and rank seventh in the world standings with $197,057. 2016 was similar for Spears placing in three rounds to rank ninth at the NFR and eighth in the world standings with $151,802.
Spears did not compete in 2015. 2014 he won his first round of the NFR on an 85.5-point ride on Rafter G Rodeo’s Johnny Ramone and placed in two other rounds to rank ninth in the average and finished 11th in the world standings with $100,030 earned.
Spears, qualified for the College National Finals Rodeo in 2011 while representing Mesalands Community College Rodeo.
His first year of competition with PRCA was in 2013 where he finished 28th with $40,963.