Matt Zancanella

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Events: Team Roping (Heeling)
Born: 4/9/1976 Rock Springs, Wyo.
Joined PRCA: 1995
PRCA Career Earnings: $646,292.00
World Titles Won: 0
WNFR Qualifications: 3
Current Residence: Aurora, S.D.

Tour Finale qualifications: 7
Winter: 2001, 2003
Summer: 2002-04
Championships: 2003, 2010
DNCFR qualifications: 3 (2000, 2008-09)
Education: Eastern Wyoming College (Torrington)

Professional
2011 Highlights
• Won the Corn Palace Stampede Rodeo (Mitchell, S.D.), with Bubba Buckaloo
• Won the Hamel (Minn.) Rodeo & Bull Ridin’ Bonanza, with Bubba Buckaloo
• Won the Linn County Fair & Rodeo (Mound City, Kan.), with Bubba Buckaloo
Career Highlights
• 2010: (Partner Colby Siddoway) Won the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo; finished 21st in the world standings with $47,338
• 2009: (Partner Colby Siddoway) Co-champion at the Deseret Peak Stampede (Tooele, Utah). Won the Elizabeth (Colo.) Stampede; the Strawberry Days Rodeo (Pleasant Grove, Utah) and the Red Desert Round Up (Rock Springs, Wyo.). Finished 21st in the world standings with $43,499
• 2008: (Partner J.B. Lord) Won the Beaver Valley Horse Club Rodeo (Strasburg, N.D.); the Corn Palace Stampede Rodeo (Mitchell, S.D.) and the Riverboat Days PRCA Rodeo (Yankton, S.D.). Won the Broken Bit Arena Rodeo (Braham, Minn.), with Shaw Loiseau. Finished 66th in the world standings with $12,840
• 2007: (Partner J.B. Lord) Won the North Dakota Winter Show (Valley City) and the Corn Palace Stampede Rodeo (Mitchell, S.D.). Finished 51st in world standings
• 2006: (Partner Wes Goodrich) Won the Tour Round at the Clark County Fair and Rodeo (Logandale, Nev.)
• 2004: (Partner Travis Tryan) Won the SandHills Stock Show and Rodeo (Odessa, Texas); the Days of the Old West Rodeo (Delta, Utah) and the Greeley (Colo.) Rocky Mountain Stampede. Won the Tour Round at the Dinosaur Days Roundup Rodeo (Vernal, Utah); was the co-champion at Walla Walla (Wash.) Fair and Frontier Days Rodeo. Placed in five of 10 rounds at the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo with partner Wade Wheatley, and was fifth in the average. Finished the year ranked 10th in the world with $91,452
• 2003: (Partner Travis Tryan) Won the San Angelo (Texas) Stock Show and Rodeo; La Fiesta de los Vaqueros (Tucson, Ariz.); the Guymon (Okla.) Pioneer Days Rodeo; the Livingston (Mont.) Round-Up, and the Snake River Stampede (Nampa, Idaho); co-champion in Round 1 of the Wrangler NFR with a 4.6-second run; finished 10th in the world standings with $86,171
• 2002: (Partner Travis Tryan) Won the NILE Rodeo (Billings, Mont.); the Lawton (Okla.) Rangers Rodeo and the Clackamas County Fair & Rodeo (Canby, Ore.); finished 11th in the world with $90,197
• 2000: (Partner Cody Cowden) Won the Santa Maria (Calif.) Elks Rodeo and the St. Paul (Ore.) Rodeo

Amateur
Wyoming State High School champion, 1993-94

Personal
6-3, 275 … Wife, Kristen; daughter, Keylee and son, Keeton … Nickname “Zank” … Owns the company Pro Earth Products … Hobbies include hunting and teaching … His superstition is not shaving before a rodeo … His father, Paul, is a veterinarian; mother, Vickie … Credits Travis Tryan’s father, Dennis, for getting him to the level he is today after going to one of his roping schools … Horse’s name is Radar … Most admired rodeo cowboy is Clay O’Brien Cooper … Favorite movie is Pistol Pete