CIMMARON GERKE
Events: Bareback
Born: 6/2/1982 Brighton, CO
Joined PRCA: 2001
PRCA Career Earnings: $624,483.00
World Titles Won: 0
WNFR Qualifications:5
Current Residence: Brighton, CO
2008 Wrangler NFR place: 11th
2008 Wrangler NFR earnings: $13,251
2008 World standings: 14th
2008 earnings: $92,422
Tour Finale qualifications: 4
Winter: 2004
Summer: 2004-05
Championship: 2004
DNCFR titles: 1 (2004)
Education: Odessa (Texas) College, associate’s degree in diesel mechanics
Professional
2008 Highlights
• Placed second in Round 5 of the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo with a 90.5-point ride on Calgary Stampede's Knight Rocket
• Won the Cheyenne (Wyo.) Frontier Days
• Won the War Bonnet Roundup (Idaho Falls, Idaho)
• Won the Big Sky Pro Rodeo Roundup (Great Falls, Mont.)
• Won the Douglas County Fair & Rodeo (Castle Rock, Colo.)
• Won the Young County Rodeo (Graham, Texas)
• Won the Farm-City Pro Rodeo (Hermiston, Ore.)
• Won the Ouray County Fair & Rodeo (Ridgway, Colo.)
• Co-champion at the Strathmore (Alberta) Heritage Days
• Co-champion at the Rocky Pro Rodeo (Rocky Mountain House, Alberta)
Career Highlights
• 2007 – Placed in three of 10 rounds at the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo. Won two rounds at the Canadian National Finals Rodeo (Edmonton) and finished third in the average. Won the Home of Champions (Red Lodge, Mont.); the Grand Prairie (Alberta) Stompede and the 4th of July Celebration & Rodeo (Window Rock Ariz.). Co-champion at the Lewiston (Idaho) Roundup; at the Magic Valley Stampede (Filer, Idaho); at the Omak (Wash.) Stampede and at The Qualifier at the Fort (Fort Collins, Colo.)
• 2006 – Placed in five out of 10 rounds at the Wrangler NFR, winning the ninth round with an 83.5-point ride; Won the North Idaho Fair & Rodeo (Coeur d’Alene); the Eagle (Colo.) County Fair & Rodeo; the Medicine Hat (Alberta) Stampede; the Ponoka (Alberta) Stampede; the Longview (Texas) PRCA Rodeo; co-champion at the Guy Weadick Memorial Rodeo (High River, Alberta)
• 2005 – Tied for the average title at the 2005 Wrangler NFR with 837.5 points on 10 head. The last time there was a tie for the average title was in 1983 when Larry Peabody and Danny Brady finished with 733 points on 10 head. Won the eighth round with an 87.5-point ride on Wayne Vold Rodeo’s Awesome; won the Amarillo (Texas) Tri-State Fair Rodeo and the Spokane (Wash.) Interstate Fair and Rodeo; was co-champion at the Pendleton (Ore.) Round-Up; and won the average title at the Calgary Stampede. Finished fourth in the world with $162,612
• 2004 – Finished the year third in the world with $158,525 and was 11th in the Wrangler NFR average picking up $57,204; Won Tour round and average titles at Black Hills Stock Show & Rodeo (Rapid City, S.D.) and Greeley (Colo.) Rocky Mountain Stampede; won DNCFR event title; won Jasper (Texas) Lions Benefit Rodeo, Cowboy Capital of the World ProRodeo (Stephenville, Texas), Beef Empire Days PRCA Rodeo (Garden City, Kan.), Days of ’47 Rodeo (Salt Lake City) and Sikeston (Mo.) Jaycee Bootheel Rodeo; was co-champion at Strawberry Days Rodeo (Pleasant Grove, Utah); won Tour-round title and was the average co-champion at Cheyenne (Wyo.) Frontier Days; finished second at the Pace Picante ProRodeo Challenge (Omaha, Neb.); was a semifinalist at the Pace Picante ProRodeo Classic (Dallas) and won the second round with a 90-point ride on Rafter G Rodeo’s Durango; won Round 2 at the Wrangler NFR with a score of 89.5 points on Kesler Championship Rodeo’s Alley Trail and Round 6 with a 90.5-point ride on Classic Pro Rodeo’s Wise Guy. He also placed in four additional rounds
• 2003 – Won average crown at the Days of ’47 Rodeo (Salt Lake City.). Finished 52nd in the world standings with $14,037
Amateur
National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association champion, 2003
Personal
5-5, 145…Single…Got involved in rodeo through his dad and his first competition was in 1995…His father, Bryon, is a truck dispatcher, and his mother is Ellen. He has one sister, Candace…Nickname Macho Nacho…Sister gave him a green striped shirt for his birthday and told him it was too nice for him to wear to compete in. He ignored her advice and wore it at the College Finals to win the title, and then he wore it again in 2004 to win the DNCFR. It is now his lucky shirt…Grew his hair out in 2004 and then prior to Round 10 at the Wrangler NFR, he cut it off and donated it to Locks of Love…Was out the first half of the 2005 season after having surgery on his elbow. Got a new elbow brace made in Canada and then won the Calgary Stampede, moving up to 20th in the standings at the time…Rodeo idol is Ty Murray
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