Header Lightning Aguilera and heeler Jonathan Torres are both set to make their debut at the Thomas & Mack both as a team and individual athletes.
Aguilera will enter the NFR ranked No.11 with $90,421 after competing along side partner Coleby Payne the majority of the season.
Torres earned a total of $82,968 to sit at No.15 in the Standings as he spent his regular season teamed up with his brother Joshua Torres.
Unlike other teams, these two roped at only one regular season rodeo together but don’t count the duo out, at that one rodeo, the two teamed up for success.
NOTABLE WIN
San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo
Both cowboys were eligible to compete in the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo, however, as their partners came up short the two athletes teamed up and ultimately took home the Championship Title.
Aguilera and Torres each earned a total of $21,500 in San Antonio after turning in a time of 4.2 seconds to take first place in the Final Round.
Lightning Aguilera
BIGGEST PAYDAY
Aguilera added a noteworthy amount of money to his earnings at the San Angelo Rodeo after placing second in the Average to take home $18,292 in total.
FASTEST TIME
Aguilera turned in his fastest time of the season at the Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo, stopping the clock at 3.6 seconds to take first place in Round 2 of Bracket 5.
Jonathan Torres
BIGGEST PAYDAY
Torres finished out the Pendleton Round-Up sitting first in the Average with an aggregate time of 19.1 seconds on three head to win the title and earn a check of $12,762.
FASTEST TIME
The San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo was not only Torres’ highest earning win but is also where he turned in his fastest run on the season with a 4.2-second run in the Final Round.
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