BY BRETT NIERENGARTEN
Ryan Jarrett enters the 2020 Wrangler NFR in 11th place and the 36-year-old Okie has accomplished just about everything a calf roper can.
He has a Gold Buckle, 13 NFR qualifications and more than $2 million in career earnings.
This year, Jarrett has a chance to finish in the Top 10 in the world standings for the first time since 2013.
Jarrett set the tone for his 2020 by making more than $3,000 in his third run of the year, a 7.2-second time at the National Western Stock Show and Rodeo.
He followed that up by winning about $2,900 in San Antonio. Couple that with $1,200 he earned for a fourth-place finish at the Dixie National Rodeo in Mississippi, and Jarrett already had close to $7,500 when the COVID-19 break happened.
The veteran came out hot when rodeos returned in early June. In his third rodeo back, he tied one in 8.6 seconds in Woodward, Oklahoma to get the win and cash a $3,893 check.
Jarrett would later have a big Fourth of July run winning $1,500 in Prescott, $6,800 in Cody and $3,600 in Oakley City.
The very next weekend, he won checks in both Weatherford, Texas and Elko, Nevada. Those two runs earned him more than $3,000 combined and both were faster than 9 seconds.
RYAN JARRETT - 8.8 SECONDS IN ELKO
In August, the Oklahoma cowboy found some success in the Midwest by winning a round at Kansas’ Biggest Rodeo and finishing fourth at the rodeo in North Platte, Nebraska the weekend after. Those two checks totaled about $6,000. The weekend after that, Jarrett won the rodeo in Eureka, Kansas.
Jarrett’s average time of 10.98 seconds in 2020 was his fastest since 2013.
The last time he qualified for the NFR, in 2018, Jarrett won Rounds 5 and 8.
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