Travis Graves

Events: Team Roping (Heeling)
Born: 3/1/1984 Jay, Okla.
Joined PRCA: 2002
PRCA Career Earnings: $656,841.00
World Titles Won: 0
WNFR Qualifications: 3 (2008, 2010-11)
Current Residence: Jay, Okla.

2011 World standings place: 2nd
2011 Wrangler NFR place: 3rd
2011 Wrangler NFR earnings: $72,981
2011 earnings: $189,649
Tour Finale titles: 1
Championship: 2010
Tour Finale qualifications: 1
Championship: 2010
DNCFR qualifications: 1 (2006)

Professional
2011 Highlights – partner Clay Tryan
• Placed in four rounds at the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo
• Won the National Western Stock Show & Rodeo (Denver)
• Won the Ellensburg (Wash.) Rodeo
• Won the Lea County Fair & PRCA Rodeo (Lovington, N.M.)
• Won the Lewiston (Idaho) Roundup
• Won the Lynden (Wash.) PRCA Rodeo
• Won the SandHills Stock Show & Rodeo (Odessa, Texas)
• Won the Red Bluff (Calif.) Round-Up
• Won the Cassia County Fair & Rodeo (Burley, Idaho)
Career Highlights
• 2010: (Partner Clay Tryan) Placed in five rounds of the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo, including a win in Round 9 with a time of 4.2 seconds. Finished second in the world standings with $185,784 after breaking the regular-season earnings record for team roping heelers with $147,653, eclipsing the record of $118,277 set by Jade Corkill in 2009. Won the Justin Boots Championships (Omaha, Neb.); Tryan and Graves won the most championship money of anyone in Omaha, collecting $34,955 each. Won the Black Hills Stock Show 7& Rodeo (Rapid City, S.D.); the Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo Days (Colorado Springs, Colo.); the Sisters (Ore.) Rodeo; the Rodeo de Santa Fe (N.M.); the Cassia County Fair & Rodeo (Burley, Idaho); the Othello (Wash.) PRCA Rodeo
• 2009: (Partner Turtle Powell) Won the Fort Worth (Texas) Stock Show & Rodeo and the Lawton (Okla.) Rangers Rodeo; finished 22nd in the world standings with earnings of $42,810
• 2008: (Partner Turtle Powell) Placed in four of 10 rounds in the Wrangler NFR, finishing second in the average standings and 11th in the world standings with season earnings of $107,701. Won the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo; the Dinosaur Round-Up Rodeo (Vernal, Utah); the Lea County Fair & Rodeo (Lovington, N.M.); the Missoula (Mont.) Stampede and the Moses Lake (Wash.) Roundup
• 2007: Co-champion at the Fort Worth (Texas) Stock Show & Rodeo, with Keven Daniel, and won the Beef Empire Days PRCA Rodeo (Garden City, Kan.), with Turtle Powell
• 2006: Won the Poway (Calif.) Rodeo, with Keven Daniel
• 2002: Won the Wrangler ProRodeo Tour Round at the Ellensburg (Wash.) Rodeo, with Blaine Linaweaver

Amateur
Won the International Finals Youth Rodeo heeling title, 2001

Personal
5-10, 205 … Wife, Tamika (married June 11, 2005) … Enjoys basketball, Mexican food and alternative music … His father, Ronnie, is a rancher and horse trainer; mother, Teresa, is a middle school teacher … Lists Walt Woodard and Clay O’Brien Cooper as his rodeo idols