3-time NFR qualifier and THBRT South Point Las Vegas Champion Boudreaux Campbell
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The history of professional rodeo cowboys from Southeast Texas is chronicled much like an episode of Gunsmoke. The tales of this distinguished group all link to cowboys known for tough, duke it out to the end determination with one common characteristic… true grit. Crockett, Texas native Boudreaux Campbell, the number six ranked bull rider of the PRCA, fits that mold.
Campbell qualified for his third Wrangler National Finals Rodeo competing in 97 rodeos, earning money in 35. He earned $126,771.22 to be the number six bull rider on the PRCA roster for the regular season.
Campbell is no stranger to the trials and tribulation of competing in Las Vegas as he heads to the Thomas and Mack for the third time in three years.
While most 21-year-olds are trying to figure out their major in college or what to be when they grow up, three-time NFR qualifier Boudreaux Campbell’s resume already reads like a speech at his retirement party. With total PRCA earnings listed on prorodeo.com at $280,071.00, his real income from riding bulls is probably somewhere close to half a million dollars.
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The left-handed bull rider is a Texas State Jr. High and High School state bull riding champion. The same year he graduated from Lovelady High School he won the 2017 PRCA Rookie of the Year contest.
This team roping, former basketball-playing Dallas Cowboys fan began his pro career with Tuff Hedeman in both CBR and Tuff Hedeman Bull Riding Tour events. Campbell earned over $100,000 with Hedeman standing in front of the chutes, most recently Hedeman handed him a big check as he won the South Point THBRT championship last March.
His rookie year, 2017, he earned his first top 15 rank and NFR appearance by hanging on at the last two rodeos of the year. Adjusting to the chaos that can be your first trip to the Superbowl of rodeo, he split the win in Round 9 and placed in two rounds to rank 10th in the average with 170.5 points on two head. He finished 10th in the world standings with $144,601.
In 2018 he finished significantly higher at number 8 with earnings of $106,430.78 in qualifying dollars. A disappointing second trip to Vegas left Campbell in 14th place. He placed in one round on one head earning $29, 038, and total 2018 earnings of $135,469 with ten event title wins.
Boudreaux’s path to professional bull riding began when he was 4 years old and his father, Jay, who hosted youth rodeos for about 15 years, took him to a rodeo in Liberty.
“I watched the sheep riding there, and after that, I told him that’s what I wanted to do,” Boudreaux said. “I fell in love with it. And ever since then I wanted to be a world champion bull rider. I started out on calves and then moved up to steers and all of that.
Campbell in interviews has been a supporter of the PRCA believing that PRCA gives him an opportunity to stay healthy while earning huge money and that there is a choice of where to go to ride bulls and earn a million dollars in one year.
Campbell is known for one quote - “I have one job – stay on.”