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Matt Sherwood

Events: Team Roping
Born: 9/20/1969 Snowflake, Ariz.
Joined PRCA: 1994
PRCA Career Earnings: $566,429.00
World Titles Won: 2
WNFR Qualifications:2
Current Residence: Pima, Ariz.

2009 World standings place: 21st
2009 earnings: $48,665
Tour Finale titles: 1
 Summer:  2006
Tour Finale qualifications: 5
    Winter:  2006
    Summer:  2005-06
    Championship: 2006, 2008
DNCFR titles: 1 (2005)
DNCFR qualifications: 7 (1994-95, 2003, 2005, 2008-10)

Professional
2010 Highlights - partner Randon Adams
• Won the Clovis (Calif.) Rodeo with Allen Bach
• Co-champion at the Fiesta Days Rodeo (Spanish Fork, Utah) with Randon Adams
 
Career Highlights
• 2009: (Partner Rhen Richard) Won the Guymon (Okla.) Pioneer Days Rodeo; the Ponoka (Alberta) Stampede; the Dodge Wilderness Circuit Finals Rodeo (Ogden, Utah); the Gooding (Idaho) Pro Rodeo; the Cassia County Fair & Rodeo (Burley, Idaho); co-champion at the Deseret Peak PRCA Stampede (Tooele, Utah).
• 2008: (Partner Randon Adams) Won Round 9 of the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo with a time of 3.7 seconds and finished second in three additional rounds en route to his second world championship with event-record earnings of $189,568. Won the River City Roundup (Omaha, Neb.); the Southwestern Exposition & Livestock Show (Fort Worth, Texas); the Clark County Fair & Rodeo (Logandale, Nev.); the Molalla (Ore.) Buckeroo; the Oakley Independence Day Rodeo (Oakley City, Utah); the Lincoln County Fair & Rodeo (Afton, Wyo.) and That Famous Preston (Idaho) Night Rodeo; co-champion at the War Bonnet Roundup (Idaho Falls, Idaho). Finished first in the Wilderness Circuit season standings
• 2007: (Partner Randon Adams) Won That Famous Preston (Idaho) Night Rodeo and the Dodge Wilderness Circuit Finals Rodeo (Ogden, Utah)
• 2006: (Partner Walt Woodard) Finished the year as the regular-season leader with $93,075. Won his first world title after placing in six rounds at the Wrangler NFR with Woodard. He shared the world title with Allen Bach, who won the most money among heelers for the 2006 season. Won the Qualifier at the Fort (Fort Collins, Colo.); the ProRodeo Tour Summer Finale (Omaha, Neb.); the Norco (Calif.) Mounted Posse Rodeo; the Caldwell (Idaho) Night Rodeo; the War Bonnet Roundup Rodeo (Idaho Falls, Idaho); the Big Sky Pro Rodeo Roundup (Great Falls, Mont.); the Greeley (Colo.) Independence Stampede; the Wrangler ProRodeo Tour Round and average titles at the San Antonio (Texas) Stock Show and Rodeo and the Dixie National Rodeo (Jackson, Miss.). Won the Williams (Ariz.) Labor Day PRCA Rodeo, with Dylan Frost
• 2005: Won the Dodge National Circuit Finals Rodeo (Pocatello, Idaho) with Rube Woolsey; won the San Bernardino (Calif.) Sheriff’s PRCA Rodeo with Travis Woodard, and the Cache County Fair and Rodeo (Logan, Mont.) with Jett Hillman. Finished 26th in the world with $28,155

Awards
Horse Nicks Rocket Rojo (Nickolas) named AQHA Team Roping Head horse of the year, 2006

Personal
6-1, 175...Wife, Kim; daughters, Megan, Jessica, Aubrie and Ashlie; sons, Cody, Logan and Porter…Hobbies include playing basketball and roping with his kids…Got involved in rodeo through his family. Parents are Bill and Marci, and he has four brothers, Steve, Dole, Kit and J.C. 2000 World Champion Bull Rider Cody Hancock is his first cousin…Owned a flooring and tile company in Queen Creek, Ariz., for 10 years before he sold it to hit the rodeo trail full time in 2006…Favorite food is his wife’s beef, potatoes and gravy, followed by Costco pepperoni pizza

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