Courtesy of PRCA
Check another career box off for ultra-talented roper Shad Mayfield. The Clovis, N.M., cowboy won his inaugural Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association All-Around World Championship in dramatic form Saturday, Dec. 14, before 17,227 fans during the 2024 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo Finals at the Thomas & Mack Center at UNLV.
Mayfield, 24. finished atop the PRCA | RAM World Standings with $335,474. He edged second-place Coleman Proctor by a mere $675. Mayfield claimed the all-around title by competing in three categories: tie-down roping, steer roping and as a team roping header.
Mayfield battled hip labrums all season, but he has no plans of slowing down. “I’m going to keep pushing. I don’t think I’m ready for surgery,” he said. “I felt great in Round 1 until I tweaked my hip really bad getting off my horse.
“That really became a factor the final nine nights. It’s something that I’ll take a good, little break from before coming back in the wintertime and come back feeling the best I can.”
Our thanks to Tom Donoghue for his photos (check out the print edition of Vegas Prime Magazine for more images). The other 2024 Wrangler NFR champions crowned at The Thomas & Mack Center:
- Tie-down roper Riley Webb claimed his second-consecutive world championship.
- Josh Frost snared a long-awaited PRCA Bull Riding World Championship.
- Header Tyler Wade and heeler Wesley Thorp captured the team roping championships again.
- Ryder Wright won the saddle bronc title.
- Dean Thompson stunned the field to win his first bareback title.
- Steer wrestler J.D. Struxness claimed the world championship.
- Kassie Mowry captured her first world title in dramatic fashion.
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