Bobby Harris
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Events: Team Roping (Heeling), Steer Roping
Born: 1/4/1963 Sheridan, Wyo.
Joined PRCA: 1978
PRCA Career Earnings: $1,341,844.00
World Titles Won: 1 (1991)
WNFR Qualifications: 18 (1981-82, 1984-95, 1997, 1999, 2002, 2010)
Current Residence: Gillette, Wyo.
2011 World standings place: 26th
2011 earnings: $37,787
NFSR qualifications: 8 (1986-91, 1993, 2006)
Wrangler NFR average titles: 3 (1987,1990, 2002)
Tour Finale qualifications: 2
Winter: 2002
Summer: 2002
Education: Eastern Wyoming College (Torrington)
Professional 2011 Highlights
• Won the Home of Champions Rodeo (Red Lodge, Mont.), with Colby Lovell
• Won the all-around at the Wyoming State Fair (Douglas, Wyo.)
Career Highlights
• 2010: (Partner Britt Williams) Placed in two rounds of the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo. Won the First Chance Bonanza (Brookings, S.D.) and the Wolf Point (Mont.) Wild Horse Stampede; co-champion of the Cheyenne (Wyo.) Frontier Days and the Buffalo Bill Rodeo (North Platte, Neb.)
• 2009: Finished 111th in team roping world standings with earnings of $6,957
• 2008: (Partner Guy Howell) Co-champion at the Bowman County (N.D.) PRCA Rodeo
• 2007: (Partner Guy Howell) Co-champion at the Richland County Fair & Rodeo (Sidney, Mont.)
• 2006: (Partner Guy Howell); won the PRCA Championship Rodeo (Sauk Rapids, Minn.) and the Roughrider Days Rodeo (Dickinson, N.D.); co-champion at the Mandan (N.D.) Rodeo Days. Won the Wyoming State Fair and Rodeo (Douglas, Wyo.), with J.D. Yates. Won Round 7 and placed in three other rounds at the National Finals Steer Roping. Finished 12th in the steer roping world standings with $27,635 and 24th in the all-around with $37,879
• 2002: (Partner J.D. Yates) Won Wrangler NFR average title with a time of 96.6 seconds on 10 head and won $46,372 in 10 days; finished the year ranked 9th in team roping with $97,689, 28th in steer roping with $10,125 and 13th in the all-around with $107,813
• 1997: (Partner Doyle Gellerman) Won team roping title at the Grand National Rodeo (San Francisco, Calif.)
• 1996: (Partner Tee Woolman) Set PRCA team roping world record with a 3.7 second run in Spanish Fork, Utah (broken in 2001)
• 1991: (Partner Tee Woolman) Won world championship with earnings of $72,563; won rounds 1 and 8 at the NFR and placed in three other rounds
• 1990: (Partner Tee Woolman) Won NFR team roping average title with a time of 78.8 seconds, placing in five rounds
• Mountain States Circuit all-around champion, 1986, 1991; team roping champion, 1982, 1985-86, 1992; and steer roping champion, 1989-90, 1993Amateur
Wyoming High School all-around champion, 1978
Awards
PRCA Rookie of the Year in steer roping, 1978
Personal
5-11, 250 … Wife, Colleen (married Sept. 20, 2010); daughter, Kendall, stepdaughter, Natalie; son, Ryan and stepsons, Bailey and Brody … Parents Nick Harris and Jayne Harris Voiles (deceased); brother, Brad, and sister Charlene … Conducts Bobby Harris Roping Schools and enjoys hunting and fishing … Graduated from Gillette (Wyo.) High school in a class of 160
