Chad Masters
Events: Team Roping (Headers)
Born: 2/3/1981 Nashville, Tenn.
Joined PRCA: 2001
PRCA Career Earnings: $1,078,389.00
World Titles Won: 1 (2007)
WNFR Qualifications: 7 (2003-04, 2006-10) Current Residence: Clarksville, Tenn. Chad Masters 2010 World standings place: 4th 2010 Wrangler NFR place: 6th 2010 Wrangler NFR earnings: $47,734 2010 earnings: $164,456 Wrangler NFR average titles: 1 (2006) Tour Finale titles: 1
Championship: 2003
Tour Finale qualifications: 11
Winter: 2002-04, 2006
Summer: 2004, 2006
Championship: 2003, 2006-07, 2009-10
DNCFR qualifications: 1 (2005)
Professional
2011 Highlights – partner Jade Corkill
• Won the American Royal Rodeo (Kansas City, Mo.) • Won the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo • Won the Franklin (Tenn.) Rodeo, with Josh Patton Career Highlights • 2010: (Partner Jade Corkill) Placed in four rounds of the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo, including a win in Round 10 with a time of 3.9 seconds. Won the 100th Pendleton (Ore.) Round-Up; the 100th California Rodeo Salinas; the Dodge City (Kan.) Round-Up; the Walker County Fair & Rodeo (Huntsville, Texas); the Livingston (Mont.) Round-Up and the Deadwood (S.D.) Days of ’76 Rodeo • 2009: (Partner Jade Corkill) Won Round 9 of the Wrangler NFR with a world record time of 3.3 seconds; placed in three additional rounds. Broke the record for regular-season earnings by a team roper with $127,749. Won the Cheyenne (Wyo.) Frontier Days Rodeo; the Clovis (Calif.) Rodeo; the Lea County Fair & PRCA Rodeo (Lovington, N.M.); the Snake River Stampede (Nampa, Idaho); the Central Wyoming Fair & Rodeo (Casper); the Livermore (Calif.) Rodeo; the Norco (Calif.) Mounted Posse Rodeo and the Wild Bill Hickok Rodeo (Abilene, Kan.). (Partner Michael Jones) Won the SandHills Stock Show & Rodeo (Odessa, Texas) and the National Western Stock Show & Rodeo (Denver). Finished third in the world standings with $167,004 • 2008: Placed in four of 10 rounds of the Wrangler NFR and won the Ellensburg (Wash.) Rodeo, with Michael Jones. Won RodeoHouston; the Spanish Fork (Utah) Fiesta Days Rodeo and the Larimer County Fair & Rodeo (Loveland, Colo.), with Jade Corkill. Finished 11th in the world standings with $108,918 • 2007: Placed in five rounds of the Wrangler NFR with Allen Bach en route to finishing second in the average standings and winning the world championship. Won the Franklin (Tenn.) Rodeo, with Tom Bourne; the Home of Champions Rodeo (Red Lodge, Mont.), with Allen Bach; the Heart of the North Rodeo (Spooner, Wisc.), with Britt Bockius, and Kansas’ Biggest Rodeo (Phillipsburg, Kan.), with Bockius • 2006: Won the Wrangler NFR average title, with Allen Bach, in a time of 88.5 seconds on 10 head. Won the second and third rounds with times of 4.5 and 4.3 seconds, respectively. Won $98,714 at the Wrangler NFR, setting a team roping earnings record. (Partner Cole Bigbee) Won the Southwestern International Livestock Show & Rodeo (El Paso, Texas); the Walla Walla (Wash.) Fair & Frontier Days; the Farm-City Pro Rodeo (Hermiston, Ore.) and the Dodge City (Kan.) Roundup • 2005: Won the Heart O’ Texas Fair and Rodeo (Waco) with Boogie Ray; the Santa Barbara (Calif.) Old Spanish Days Stock Horse Show & Rodeo and the Cody (Wyo.) Stampede, with Dugan Kelly. Finished the year 16th in the world with $38,451 • 2004: Won the National Western Stock Show & Rodeo (Denver) and the Walker County Fair and Rodeo (Huntsville, Texas) with Michael Jones. Placed in five rounds at the Wrangler NFR, with Dugan Kelly, tying for first in Round 9 with a time of 3.8 seconds and Round 10 with a 4.0-second run; finished eighth in the world with $104,720 • 2003: (Partner Michael Jones) Won the Tour Championships (Dallas); the Walker County Fair & Rodeo (Huntsville, Texas); the Grand National Rodeo (San Francisco) and the Kitsap County Fair Stampede (Bremerton, Wash.). Shared win in Round 10 of the Wrangler NFR with a 4.4-second run. Finished eighth in the world standings with $31,060 • 2002: Qualified for the Winter Tour Finale (Las Vegas), with Michael Harris, reaching the semifinal round, and won the Beef Empire Days PRCA Rodeo (Garden City, Kan.); finished 17th in the world
AmateurTennessee state high school rodeo team roping champion, 1996-99; state tie-down roping champion, 1998-99
Personal
5-8, 155 … Single…Hobbies include movies and training horses … Attended Jo Byrns School in Cedar Hill, Tenn. … Got involved in rodeo through his dad, Bobby, who roped calves. Started team roping at age 8 … His father trains horses now, but worked for Pepsi for 30 years. His mother, Debbie, also aided in his success by opening the roping chute every day during practice. She works at the post office … Rodeo competitors he most admires are Speed Williams, Trevor Brazile and Kevin Stewart…Owns a ranch in Lipan, Texas, with a house, barn, arena and a couple of sheds … His primary competition horse is the 12-year-old gelding I’m A Two Eyed Con “Cody” … Underwent surgery on March 26, 2008, to repair a torn anterior cruciate ligament suffered at the Fort Worth (Texas) Stock Show & Rodeo; he also had a strained medial collateral ligament and two cracks in his kneecap. Was in first place in the PRCA World Standings at the time of the surgery, having won RodeoHouston with Jade Corkill four days earlier
