Rowdy Parrott is the older of the two Parrott brothers. He grew up showing cattle but he did not start rodeoing until he was in the eighth grade. It started with chute dogging, team roping and calf roping and when he went on to high school, he narrowed it down to just team roping and steer wrestling. His freshman year, he made it to the National High School Finals heeling in the team roping but he followed it up by qualifying in the steer wrestling his sophomore, junior and senior years.
Remey, the younger of the two, was able to rodeo all through junior high, high school and college. Now, he is hitting the professional rodeos harder than he ever has before.
“I liked working with the cattle, just being around them all my life. Whenever the opportunity was available to jump at a little faster pace we kind of went towards that,” Remey said.
In 2014, Rowdy’s rookie year, he ended up in the same vicinity as World Champions and some of the toughest steer wrestlers out there. Tyler Pearson, Tyler Waguespack, Kyle Irwin and Riley Duval were helping him figure out the professional rodeo world and in 2017 he qualified for his first National Finals Rodeo.
However, things took a turn starting in 2018. Rowdy tore his ACL before he tore his pec and went through the loss of a family member. He says it was hard to get back, fighting through the injuries, but we saw Rowdy again at the 2021 NFR.
“It was good to make the finals last year and give me a boost back and got a good start to this new year, hopefully keep this rolling and keep going to the finals,” Rowdy said.
Rowdy has a corner packed with full support and his wife, Lynette, also grew up in the rodeo world and she knew what she signed up for when she married a man that wants to rodeo for a living.
“We get to go and experience it and take our kids and see the countryside. It’s a sacrifice but it’s a blessing to that and we signed up for it. We were ready,” she says.
Rowdy’s brother in-law is Caleb Smidt, the entire family knows what it is like to hit the rodeo road hard and how important a good support system is.
Last year was Remey’s rookie year despite having his permit since 2017. Remey earned a degree from McNeese State University and college rodeoed before he came into the professional circuit.
“Remey is so competitive and we push each other. It’s so good to go with him because we bulldog so much alike… We push each other to be better. He’s such a great hazer, great traveling partner and he bulldogs very good. It’s so awesome to be able to go with him,” Rowdy says.
Remey says he learned a lot during his rookie year and he is hoping to put it to use going forward this next year. He has a lot of confidence after growing up with his brother and being around World Champions, he got the inside scoop that a lot of guys his age didn’t have.
The Parrott brothers have a string of horses that are powerhouse bulldogging horses. Between George, Shorty and DC, they have their pick of equine athletes to team up with. George is Rowdy’s horse that he made the 2017 NFR on and has been running ever since until he got hurt in Salinas at the Tour Finale. Shorty is Rowdy’s late brother-in-law’s horse that has been a blessing to both of the Parrott boys. DC is a horse that Rowdy bought right before the NFR last year, that he ran at the finals and has high expectations for this 2022 season.