2009 World standings: 75th
2009 earnings: $11,775

Wrangler NFR average titles: 3 (1985, 1994, 2007)
Tour Finale titles: 2
   Winter: 2006
   Championship: 2006
Tour Finale qualifications: 10
   Winter: 2000, 2004, 2006
   Summer: 2002-04
   Championship: 2004, 2006-08

DNCFR titles: 4 (1987, 1989, 1995-96)

DNCFR qualifications: 10 (TR 1987-92, 1995-96, 2009; TD 1988)

Professional
2009 Highlights

• Won the Dodge Texas Circuit Finals Rodeo (Waco), with David Key

Career Highlights

•  2007: (Partner Jake Barnes)  Became 10th rodeo competitor to surpass $2 million in career earnings. Won the Wrangler NFR average title with a time of 72.60 seconds on 10 head, placing in six rounds. Barnes-O’Brien Cooper became the first team ropers to win an NFR average title in three decades. Won the Clark County Fair & Rodeo (Logandale, Nev.); the Canyonlands PRCA Rodeo (Moab, Utah); the Snake River Stampede (Nampa, Idaho) and the Puyallup (Wash.) Pro Rodeo

•  2006: (Partner Speed Williams). Placed in four of 10 rounds at the Wrangler NFR and tied for first in the fifth round with a 4.0-second run. Won the Wrangler ProRodeo Tour Championship (Dallas); the Cody (Wyo.) Stampede; the Winter Tour Finale (Tulsa, Okla.); and the Bell County Youth Fair and Livestock Show (Belton, Texas)
•  2004: (Partner David Key) Won the Somervell County 10th Annual Rodeo (Glen Rose, Texas); RodeoHouston, and the Clovis (Calif.) Rodeo. Won the Wrangler ProRodeo Tour Round at the National Western Stock Show and Rodeo (Denver); the Reno (Nev.) Rodeo and the Puyallup (Wash.) Rodeo and won the most money of all team ropers with $15,471 at the Winter Tour Finale. Was a semifinalist at the Summer Tour Finale (Omaha, Neb.) and the Tour Championships (Dallas); and placed in four of 10 rounds at the Wrangler NFR, tying for the win in Round 8 with a 4.0-second run. Finished the year fifth in the world standings with $136,136
• 2003: (Partner David Key) Won the Molalla (Ore.) Buckeroo Days Rodeo; the Days of ‘76 Rodeo (Deadwood, S.D.) and the Caldwell (Idaho) Night Rodeo; finished the year fifth in the world standings with $103,478
• 2002: (Partner Jake Barnes) Won the Prescott (Ariz.) Frontier Days Rodeo and  the Cheyenne (Wyo.) Frontier Days
• 2001: (Partner Matt Tyler) Won the Home of Champions Rodeo (Red Lodge, Mont.)
• 2000: (Partner Matt Tyler) Won the Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo (Colorado Springs, Colo.) and La Fiesta de los Vaqueros (Tucson, Ariz.)
• 1999: (Partner Jake Barnes) Won the National Western Stock Show & Rodeo (Denver) and the Deadwood (S.D.) Days of ‘76 Rodeo
• 1994: – (Partner Jake Barnes) Set the NFR average record of 59.1 seconds on 10 head; set PRCA record for most team roping world titles (seven), which was surpassed in 2004

• NFR team roping average champion, 1985, 1994 and 2007

• Won Dodge National Circuit Finals Rodeo (with Jake Barnes), 1987, 1989 and 1995-96

• Won Turquoise Circuit team roping titles, 1983-89, 1994; all-around titles, 1985-89, 1991, 1993, 1995

Awards
Horse Supai Drifter (nicknamed Ike) finished second in the PRCA/AQHA Team Roping Heel Horse of the Year race in 2004

Personal
6-0, 200...Wife, Alisa (married 2004); daughters, Bailey, Quinn…Resumed roping partnership with Jake Barnes in 2007 after a four-year hiatus...Made his acting debut in the John Wayne film The Cowboys (1972) when he was 11 years old, portraying Hardy Fimps; worked in film and television through 1976, including roles in Gunsmoke, The Apple Dumpling Gang, Marcus Welby, M.D, Cahill U.S. Marshal and One Little Indian