WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
In 2020, female ropers for the first time competed for life-changing money in traditionally male ProRodeo. The $750,000 Women’s Rodeo World Championship (WRWC) alongside the PBR World Finals in November, and the $200,000 National Finals of Breakaway Roping (NFBR) alongside the NFR in December were historic inaugural events.
“There are so many women who have all the ability, but because of life and family and careers they just stopped rodeoing,” said former NFR tie-down roper and steer wrestler J.D. Crouse, now Chief Marketing Officer for the World Champions Rodeo Alliance (WCRA). “To see them have an opportunity to reengage and reinvest time and energy back into the sport they love—that’s been great. But then to also pay the winner of the breakaway at our Women’s Championship more than $60,000, it was just huge to honor those ladies. I was proud to be part of it.”
PRCA Chief Operating Officer Tom Glause was also elated that the PRCA was able to host the NFBR in the same venue as the 2020 NFR.
“I think the NFBR generated lots of interest and excitement for the contestants and brought a lot of awareness to the sport,” he said. “As these girls are coming up through junior high and high school, learning skills and figuring out what they like, this is giving them another event to really consider a path
