Trevor Brazile (born November 16, 1976) is a semi-retired American rodeo champion who competed in the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) and partners with a cowboy named Miles Baker. He was inducted into the ProRodeo Hall of Fame in 2022.[1] He holds the record for the most PRCA world championship titles with 26. He won his 26th title in 2020.[2] He also holds the record for the most all-around cowboy world champion titles at 14, breaking the record of 7 titles held by Ty Murray; Murray's last earned was in 1998.[3]
In 2010, Brazile won his 8th all-around title, surpassing Murray's seven titles from 1998.[4] Murray's titles were won all in roughstock events, as opposed to Brazile's timed-event wins, and he is still the youngest winner of the title.[5]
Brazile won the all-around world championship in 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2006 through 2015, and in 2018. He won the tie-down roping world championship in 2007, 2009 and 2010. He won the team roping world championship in 2010. He won the steer roping world championship in 2006, 2007, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2019 and 2020. He won four National Finals Steer Roping (NFSR) Average titles in 2012, 2014, 2015, and 2020. He also won two National Finals Rodeo (NFR) Average titles. One was in team roping in 2008 and one was in tie-down roping in 2010.[4]
The late Jim Shoulders set the record of 16 world championships in 1959 when he won his 15th and 16th titles.[6] Steer roper Guy Allen matched the record in 2001 after winning his 16th steer roping title. Two years later in 2003, he broke Shoulder's record after winning a 17th title. Allen won his 18th and final record to date in 2004.[7] In 2013, Brazile won another all-around title and his total number of world titles moved to 19. This broke Allen's record of 18 world titles. As of 2020, Brazile has 26 world titles, eight more than Allen, who is in second place with 18 titles, and Shoulders is in third place with 16 titles.[8][3]
In 2008, Brazile became the first PRCA cowboy to cross the $3 million mark in career earnings.[9]
Brazile announced his retirement from full-time rodeo at the end of the 2018 NFR.[10]
Brazile was born in Amarillo, Texas, and says that "he wants to be remembered as a great cowboy".[11]
This season Brazile was on a reduced schedule as per his announcement at the end of the previous year's season. It did not stop him from winning the steer roping event this year and his 25th gold buckle. Brazile placed in all ten rounds of the PRCA National Finals Steer Roping (NFSR) in Mulvane, Kansas, and he was the only cowboy who did. He earned $56,707 at the NFSR. Part of that check was $27,347 for winning the NFSR Average title, making a 10-run time of 131.0 seconds. He won the championship with total earnings of $129,834. His total earnings at the NFSR was $60,989, which was the most of all the competitors.[2]
He tied for first place in Round 5 of the tie-down roping with a time of 7.1 seconds and placed in three other rounds en route to clinching his second world championship in that event in three years and a record-tying seventy all-around gold buckle; placed in one round of the team roping with Patrick Smith. By earning his 11th world championship, Brazile moved into a tie for third place on the career list with Dean Oliver and Charmayne James."[4]
All-around titles
San Angelo (Texas) Stock Show & Rodeo;
World's Oldest Rodeo (Prescott, Ariz.);
Ellensburg (Wash.) Rodeo;
Cody (Wyo.) Stampede
Dodge City (Kan.) Roundup
Lea County Fair & PRCA Rodeo (Lovington, N.M.)
Sikeston (Mo.) Jaycee Bootheel Rodeo
Farm-City Pro Rodeo (Hermiston, Ore.)
Caldwell (Idaho) Night Rodeo
Canby (Ore.) Rodeo
Lawton (Okla.) Rangers Rodeo
Kansas' Biggest Rodeo (Phillipsburg, Kan.)
Wild Bill Hickok Rodeo (Abilene, Kan.)
Deadwood (S.D.) Days of '76 Rodeo
Ogden (Utah) Pioneer Days Rodeo
Walker County Fair (Huntsville, Texas)
Colorado State Fair & Rodeo (Pueblo, Colo.)
Fort Bend County Fair & Rodeo (Rosenberg, Texas)
Bell County PRCA Rodeo (Belton, Texas)
Rodeo de Santa Fe (N.M.)
Livermore (Calif.) Rodeo
Southwestern International PRCA Rodeo (El Paso, Texas)
Wild Wild West Pro Rodeo (Silver City, N.M.)
Eastland County ProRodeo (Ranger, Texas)
Cowboy Capital of the World Pro Rodeo (Stephenville, Texas)
Will Rogers Stampede (Claremore, Okla.)
Tie-down roping titles
Justin Boots Championships (Omaha, Neb.)
Clark County Fair & Rodeo (Logandale, Nev.)
Snake River Stampede (Nampa, Idaho)
Farm-City Pro Rodeo (Hermiston, Ore.)
Caldwell (Idaho) Night Rodeo
Molalla (Ore.) Buckeroo Rodeo
Kansas' Biggest Rodeo (Phillipsburg, Kan.)
Guy Weadick Memorial Rodeo (High River, Alberta)
Bell County PRCA Rodeo (Belton, Texas)
Wild Wild West Pro Rodeo (Silver City, N.M.)
Butterfield Stage Days Rodeo (Bridgeport, Texas)
Kitsap County Fair & Stampede (Bremerton, Wash.)
Eastland County ProRodeo (Ranger, Texas)
Magic Valley Stampede (Filer, Idaho)
Team roping titles (with Patrick Smith)
Greeley (Colo.)
Independence Stampede
Dodge City (Kan.) Roundup
Ogden (Utah) Pioneer Days Rodeo
Wild Wild West Pro Rodeo (Silver City, N.M.)
Daines Ranch Rodeo (Innisfail, Alberta)
Cowboy Capital of the World Pro Rodeo (Stephenville, Texas)
Became first Triple Crown winner in 24 years and just the 10th in history by winning the all-around, tie-down roping and steer roping gold buckles. Broke his own single-season record with earnings of $425,115 and moved from seventh to third on the career earnings list[4]
All-Around Titles
Wrangler National Finals Rodeo, Las Vegas
Walker County Fair & Rodeo
Grand National Rodeo
Pioneer Days Rodeo
West of the Pecos Rodeo
Snake River Stampede
Deadwood Days of '76 Rodeo
Sonora Outlaw Pro Rodeo
New Mexico State Fair Rodeo
Amarillo Tri-State Fair Rodeo
Dodge Texas Circuit Finals Rodeo
With partner Patrick Smith won the team roping in Rounds 4 and 5 of Wrangler National Finals Rodeo
Rodeo Killeen
Ogden Pioneer Days Rodeo
Deadwood Days of '76 Rodeo
Sikeston Jaycee Bootheel Rodeo
Co-Champion
Pioneer Days Rodeo
Sonora Outlaw Pro Rodeo
Tie-Down Roping Titles
Round 7 of the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo, Las Vegas, in a rodeo-best time of 6.7 seconds
Won the most money during the Fourth of July week for the 2006 season with $24,894 and became the youngest PRCA cowboy and the seventh overall to cross the $2 million mark in career earnings.[4]
All-Around Titles
Lewiston Roundup
Colorado State Fair & Rodeo
Ellensburg Rodeo
Lea County Fair & Rodeo
Deadwood Days of '76 Rodeo
World's Oldest Rodeo
West of the Pecos Rodeo
Parker County Frontier Days Pro Rodeo
Beef Empire Days PRCA Rodeo
Will Rogers Stampede
Clark County Fair & Rodeo
Laughlin River Stampede
Team Roping Titles (with partner Rich Skelton)
Fort Bend County Fair & Rodeo
Lewiston Roundup
Moses Lake Roundup
Days of '47 Rodeo
Beef Empire Days PRCA Rodeo
Clark County Fair & Rodeo
Co-Champion
Canby Rodeo
Red Bluff Round-Up
Tie-Down Roping Titles
Lewiston Roundup
Colorado State Fair & Rodeo
Horse Heaven Roundup
Fourth of July Youth Celebration and PRCA Pro Rodeo
West of the Texas Rodeo
Clark County Fair & Rodeo
Walker County Fair & Rodeo
Rodeo Austin
RodeoHouston
La Fiesta de los Vaqueros
Also won the Wrangler ProRodeo Tour Round and average titles at the Ellensburg Rodeo.
Won first single-event world title after earning $87,090 and claiming first steer roping world title.
Steer Roping Average Titles
Southern Oklahoma Stampede PRCA Rodeo
Amarillo Tri-State Fair Pro Rodeo
Lewiston Roundup
Wyoming State Fair and Rodeo
West of the Pecos Rodeo
Parker County Frontier Days Pro Rodeo
Northeast Texas Stampede PRCA Rodeo
Co-Champion
Bell County Youth Fair and Livestock Show and PRCA Rodeo
