All-Around
Campion of the World
Ryan
Jarrett made a sensational late-season charge to
carry him all the way tocowboydom’s highest
crown.
By
Kendra Santos
If
you’d tried to place a bet on Ryan Jarrett ending
up ProRodeo’s 2005 world champion all-around
cowboy a year ago, bookies would have lined up around
the block
to take your money and give you great odds, all the
while figuring you were a fool.
The
quiet country kid, who was raised on a 750-acre Georgia
dairy farm, was the longest of shots—king of the
cowboy underdogs—just a few short months ago.
Halfway through the season, Jarrett had to sell his
team roping
horse just to scrape up the entry fees and diesel
dollars to get to the next one. “I couldn’t win anything,” Jarrett
admits. “A
cowboy has to be pretty desperate to sell his horse,
if that tells you anything.”
But
by about November, those bookies might have been
getting a little nervous after Jarrett went two-for-two
in end-zone Hail Marys at both the Pace Picante ProRodeo
Challenge in Omaha, Neb., and Pace Picante ProRodeo
Classic in Dallas. Winning the steer wrestling at
those
pivotal,
big-money Wrangler ProRodeo Tour finales launched
Jarrett from virtual obscurity to serious contender
status
for professional rodeo’s highest achievement...
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