Austin Adams

Austin AdamsEvents: Team Roping (Heeling)
Born: 8/18/1988 Las Vegas, Nev.
Joined PRCA: 2007
PRCA Career Earnings: $120,584.00
World Titles Won: 0
WNFR Qualifications:0
Current Residence: Logandale, Nev.

2011 World standings place: 37th
2011 earnings: $25,392

Professional
Career Highlights

• 2010: (Partner Jay Adams) Won the Guymon (Okla.) Pioneer Days Rodeo; won the Laughlin (Nev.) River Stampede; won the Days of the Old West Rodeo (Delta, Utah); won the all-around at the Ramona (Calif.) Rodeo; won the Davis County PRCA Rodeo (Farmington, Utah), with Randon Adams; won the all-around at the Steamboat Springs (Colo.) Pro Rodeo Series, July 23-24; co-champion in the all-around at the Steamboat Springs (Colo.) Pro Rodeo Series, July 9-10, with Jay Adams; finished 22nd in the all-around world standings with $36,833
• 2009: (Partner Jay Adams) Won the St. Paul (Ore.) Rodeo; the Caldwell (Idaho) Night Rodeo and the Guy Weadick Memorial Rodeo (High River, Alberta); finished 29th in the world standings with $33,071
• 2007: (Partner Colby Siddoway) Won the Lincoln County Fair & Rodeo (Afton, Wyo.); the Golden Spike Rodeo (Tremonton, Utah); the Northside Showdown Rodeo (Jerome, Idaho); and the Cache County Fair & Rodeo (Logan, Utah)

Amateur
Utah state high school all-around champion, 2005-07; National High School Finals Rodeo reserve champion in tie-down roping, 2006; top rookie cowboy, 2004

Personal
5-10, 160…Single…Parents are Liz Adams and the late Wesley Adams, who founded the family-run Western States Ranching Corp., which includes properties in Georgia, Texas, Colorado and a 380-acre ranch in Logandale, Nev., once owned by Wayne Newton. Austin is the youngest of six children; brother Randon was the world champion team roping heeler in 2008 and Jay was the 2003 PRCA Rookie of the Year and qualified for the 2006 Wrangler NFR with Randon…Graduated from Moapa Valley High School (Logandale, Nev.) in 2007…Enjoys golf, snowboarding, football, four-wheeling and camping…Favorite rodeo is California Rodeo Salinas