The 2024 Resistol Rookie of the Year contenders are getting their first taste of the end-of-year chaos as we enter the final month of the ProRodeo season.
While some have made the decision to stay closer to home and shift their focus to their respective circuit finals, there are still a few eyeing the Resistol Rookie of the Year titles and a top spot in the world standings.
This is how the top five Resistol Rookie of the Year headers and heelers have fared in August and where they stand in the race.
Resistol Rookie of the Year headers
Tyler Tryan now has $64,263.81 won on the year, giving him a $28,992.55 lead over second place. His earnings thus far also put him over Jeff Flenniken’s 2018 Resistol Rookie of the Year earnings of $61,825.58 to make Tryan the richest rookie header of the last decade. He is also currently 29th in the PRCA world standings.
Tryan, 18, recently swapped partners and is now roping with fellow Resistol Rookie of the Year contender Denton Dunning. Last week, Tryan picked up $2,221 for third in the second round of the Horse Heaven Roundup Rodeo in Kennewick, Washington, Aug. 20-14. The week of Aug. 13-178, he won $3,679 for fifth at the Fallon County Fair & Rodeo in Baker, Montana, and $688 for fifth at the Canby Rodeo in Oregon.
Brayden Schmidt sits second in the Resistol Rookie Header of the Year race with $35,271.26 won on the year. The 21-year-old from Washington is roping with Bucky Campbell and recently won $2,402 a man at the Gem State Stampede in Coeur D’alene, Idaho, Aug. 21-25. Schmidt picked up $430 for eighth in the average in Kennewick, and the week prior pocketed $1,329 at the Cassia County Fair & Rodeo in Burley, Idaho.
New Mexico’s Korbin Rice is gaining on Schmidt, sitting just $2,261.91 behind him at third. Rice, 22, has $33,009.35 won on the year, recently adding $1,101 to his earnings between the Salmon Stampede PRCA Rodeo in Idaho and Kitsap Stampede in Bremerton, Washington. Rice, who heads for 2021 Resistol Rookie Heeler of the Year Caleb Hendrix, won $794 for seventh in the average in Canby $1,612 as well.
Quinton Parchman is fourth in the Resistol Rookie Header of the Year standings, primarily staying on the circuit front. Parchman, a 29-year-old from Cumberland City, Tennessee, has won $26,819.57 won on the year, $15,438.20 of which has come from his designated circuit, the Great Lakes Circuit. Parchman ended July with $2,793 between Jayhawker Roundup in Hill City, Kansas, and Iowa’s Championship Rodeo in Sidney. His August has been slower, picking up $148 at the Lawton Rangers Rodeo in Oklahoma and $157 at the Cattlemen Days Rodeo in Ashland, Missouri.
Ben Jordan kicked off his rookie year winning the Resistol Rookie Roundup in April, and he’s now fifth in the Resistol Rookie of the Year heading standings with $23,972.94 won on the year. The 32-year-old from Benjamin, Utah, recently won $1,155 at the Golden Spike Rodeo in Tremonton, Utah, Aug. 21-24. The week of Aug. 7-11, Jordan won $1,146 at the Owyhee County Rodeo in Homedale, Idaho, and $1,060 at the Farm-City Pro Rodeo in Hermiston, Oregon. Prior, he kicked off August winning $2,934 between the Mountain Valley Stampede in Heber City, Utah, and The War Bonnet Round Up, Idaho Falls, Idaho.
Resistol Rookie of the Year heelers
Logan Moore leads the Resistol Rookie of the Year pack on the heel side with $59,566.33 won on the year and is currently 29th in the world standings. Moore, 22, has a $15,357.57 lead over second place and is now roping with three-time NFR qualifier Shay Dixon Carroll.
Moore is ending August on a solid note, winning second in the first round of the Walla Walla Frontier Days for $2,036 and third in the first round of the Ellensburg Rodeo for $2,553, both in Washington. The week prior he picked up $3,343 for fourth in Bremerton. The week of Aug. 13-18, Moore pocketed $4,957 between Canby, Baker and the Moses Lake Round-Up Rodeo in Washington.
After a hiatus in July for youth events, Denton Dunning has made up some major ground in the Resistol Rookie of the Year heeling race. The 18-year-old from Arizona is second behind Moore with $44,208.76. Dunning, who now heels for Tryan, recently picked up $2,221 for third in the second round in Kennewick. Dunning won $3,679 for fifth in Baker and $688 for fifth in Canby the week of Aug. 13-18.
Wyatt Thomas is third with $24,940.40 won on the year, putting him $19,268.36 behind Dunning. Thomas, a Wilderness Circuit kid, has had a slower August. Thomas started the month with a $361 check from Heber City, and ended July with $4,093 between Kanab, Utah’s Heritage Rodeo and the Ogden Pioneer Days.
Iowa’s Jace Steenhoek has $23,460.70 won on his rookie season, staying closer to home in 2024. Steenhoek, 25, recently won $328 at the The Big 94.5 Country Topeka PRCA Rodeo in Kansas. The week prior he picked up $1,257 between the Eureka Pro Rodeo in Kansas and Clearwater Rodeo in Minnesota.
Scott Lauaki won the Resistol Rookie Roundup this spring, but toward the of the summer, he made the decision to stay closer to home and focus on qualifying for the Wilderness Circuit Finals. Lauaki is currently fifth in the Resistol Rookie of the Year heeling standings with $21,995.77 won on the year. Two weeks ago he picked up $1,551 in Burley and is now $982.84 behind 12th in his circuit at 16th.
