Stoneman Talks with Cody Casper of PBR

• A first-generation cowboy, Cody Casper was inspired by his stunt man father who was sent to a bareback riding school for training.
• As a child Casper was always captivated by the sport of bull riding which he would watch annually with his family while attending a rodeo in Roy, Washington.
• At age 11, Casper got on his first steers. At the insistence of his father, he attended two bull riding clinics. He then began to enter junior rodeos. Throughout his amateur career, Casper was twice the Northwest Junior Rodeo Association year-end winner, a two-time National High School Rodeo finalist, and finished second in the Washington State High School Rodeo association once.

Career in Review:

• While Cody Casper made his PBR debut in January 2014, competing at the Touring Pro Division event in Spokane, Washington, he didn’t return to the league’s ranks until 2015, riding at events in both the United States and Canada.
• In 2015, Casper logged three Top-10 finishes, led by a seventh-place result at the Touring Pro Division stop in Pendleton, Oregon.
• Continuing to progress, then 23 year-old Casper showed more promise in the 2016 season, earning 11 Top-10 finishes. His season was headlined by his accomplishments in Canada, including his top finish of the year in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, where he was third.
• In 2017, Casper continued to reach new career heights, once again excelling in the Canadian ranks. He logged his first PBR event win when he topped the field at the Canadian Cup Series event in Ottawa, Ontario, and won an event that season, again in Canada when he dominated the Touring Pro Division event in Magrath, Alberta. He concluded the year ranked No. 6 in the Canadian national standings, and No. 61 in the broader PBR world standings.

2018-2020:

• Casper’s momentum continued to roll in 2018, with the Washington native reaching the elite Unleash The Beast for the first time in his career in April when he rode at the Billings, Montana, tour stop.
• While he didn’t return to the top tour again until the following September in Fairfax, Virginia, in 2019, Casper won his first event in the United States at the Touring Pro Division event in Prescott Valley, Arizona, which he complimented with yet another Canadian victory, earned in Edgerton, Alberta.
• Flashing forward to 2020, Casper put together his most successful season to date.
• An early-season win in Portland, Oregon on the Pendleton Whisky Velocity Tour and a fifth-place finish at his home state Spokane Invitational earned Casper his third appearance on the Unleash The Beast, and started his longest stint on the tour, appearing in 14 events during the season, and picking up two Top 10 finishes.
• Casper concluded the season with his career-first PBR World Finals appearance, ranked a career-best No. 49 in the world.