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LJ Jenkins Bullriding Tour Championship Packed With PBR Champions

LJ Jenkins Bullriding Tour Championship showcased 46 combined PBR World Finalists, 18 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo qualifiers, and even one PBR World Champion.

Andrea Hanson

In its third year of production, LJ Jenkins Bullriding Tour has set a new standard for bull team events. With a $250,000 total payout, contractors came from all over for the $50,000 top prize and riders were after the $10,000 first-place check. 

Between the 65 riders entered, there were 46 combined PBR World Finalists, 18 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo qualifiers, and even one PBR World Champion. 

Paying out to seventh place, the riders showed up for their share. Dalton Kassel took home the $10,000 with his 91.50-point ride on Sho-Me Rodeo and Burkham's team bull "930F Not Yet." 

PBR Champion Boudreaux Campbell came in second with his 91 points atop Trey Kimzey's bull "39D Top Shelf" and $5,670. Kimzey's team took home the bull team win as well as the $50,000.

Brazilian Alex Marcilio won $3,780 for third place with his 90-point ride on CCC and Foreman's bull "141H Fearsome." 

In fourth place Austin Richardson of the Austin Gamblers brought in $3,024 scoring 89.5 points on Mason Taylor's bull "8X2 Dang Dang" helping Taylor's team place second.

Brayden Kilcrease of Hitchita, Oklahoma, placed fifth aboard Topline Steel's "320 Betcha Boots" with 89 points for $2,079.00

Hagen Braswell slipped into sixth with 88.5 points on Braswell and Prophet's bull "716 Outlaw" for $1,606.50.

Splitting seventh at 88 points apiece were PBR World Champion Daylon Swearingen and rookie Hudson Fry. Swearingen rode Mason Taylor's bull "F06 John 14:6" while Fry covered Dakota Young's "184H Margy Kat." The pair each took home $1,370.25.

Jenkin's large rider payout brought an incentive for bull riders to get on for some of the top contractors in the business. The two-day event was free for spectators and broadcast live on Facebook. 

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Andrea Hanson
ANDREA HANSON

Andrea Hanson strives to live the western lifestyle every day. Growing up in northern Minnesota, resources to the rodeo world were scarce. Though other hobbies persist, as her father is widely known in the snowmobile racing community. Knowing that season was short, she was always drawn to horses as her sister with Rett Syndrome was in hippotherapy since she was a young age. When the scholarship opportunity to Dodge City Community College in Dodge City, Kansas came, she jumped on it. Moving south just a barrel racer, she worked every day to tie goats and rope calves. Concluding her time in Kansas, she continued her education at Oklahoma State University, where she will graduate in May of 2024 with a Bachelor's degree in Agricultural Communications. Hanson is passionate about college rodeo, and its impact on her life. After not having a traditional step into the rodeo world herself, she strives to share the stories of others in the industry so many call home. 

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