WADE SUMPTER

Events: Steer Wrestling
Born: 6/22/1981
Joined PRCA: 2005
PRCA Career Earnings: $398,971.00
World Titles Won: 0
WNFR Qualifications:3
Current Residence: Fowler, CO

2008 Wrangler NFR place: 15th
2008 Wrangler NFR earnings: $0
2008 World standings place: 7th
2008 earnings: $133,685
Tour Finale qualifications: 2
    Winter Finale:  2006
    Championship:  2006
DNCFR qualifications: 0
Education: University of Northern Colorado (Greeley), degree in communications

Professional
2008 Highlights
• Set regular-season earnings record for steer wrestling with $133,685, but tore pectoral muscle in first round of the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo and had to withdraw. Underwent surgery on Dec. 17 in Dallas to reattach the muscle to the bone; expects to return to competition in June 2009
• Won RodeoHouston
• Won the Reno (Nev.) Rodeo
• Won the Cody (Wyo.) Stampede
• Won the Tri-State Fair & Rodeo (Amarillo, Texas)
• Won the Royal Gorge Rodeo (Canon City, Colo.)
• Co-champion at the Steamboat Springs (Colo.) Pro Rodeo Series-July 26 

Career Highlights
• 2007 - Won Round 1 of the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo and placed in six of 10 rounds. Won the Wrangler ProRodeo Tour Championship (Dallas); the Oakdale (Calif.) Saddle Club Rodeo; the Rowell Ranch Rodeo (Hayward, Calif.) and the Santa Maria (Calif.) Elks Rodeo. Co-champion at the Moses Lake (Wash.) Roundup
• 2006 - Finished ninth in the world with $107,925; placed in four out of 10 rounds at the Wrangler NFR, finishing eighth in the average race with $34,972; won the Wrangler ProRodeo Tour Round at the California Rodeo Salinas; the Kit Carson County Fair & Rodeo (Burlington, Colo.); the Black Hills Roundup (Belle Fourche, S.D.) and the Pioneer Days Rodeo (Clovis, N.M.); Co-champion of the Wrangler ProRodeo Tour Round at Rodeo Austin (Texas)

Amateur
Colorado steer wrestling state champion, 1999-2000

Personal
6-1, 225…Single…Hobbies include riding young horses, playing cards and hunting…Played football at the University of Northern Colorado for four years before entering ProRodeo full-time. He was a linebacker and also saw some time on special teams. He played in every game during his four years making, 90 tackles, with 52 of them coming his senior year. In his senior season, he had three interceptions, returning one for a touchdown…Got involved in rodeo when he was a teenager, when Kyle and Paul Hughes showed him how to steer wrestle. His first rodeo competition was in 1998…He was raised on a ranch, but his family was big into other sports, with his dad serving as a coach. Parents are Rich and Cindy and they are both school teachers. He has one sister, Casey Yahn…Competed mostly in the Mountain States Circuit his rookie year, 2005, but in 2006 he branched out and made a name for himself…Travels with Ken Lewis, Gabe Ledoux and Seth Brockman…Rides Ken Lewis’ horse Anna (8 years old) most of the time…Graduated from Fowler (Colo.) High School in a class of 27 students…Favorite sports team is the Denver Broncos, favorite rodeo is the Pendleton Roundup, favorite food is steak, favorite type of music is old country and favorite movie is Lonesome Dove