Devers Upsets Standings in Stephenville With Stellar Final Performance

The Cowboy Capital of the World PRCA Rodeo in Stephenville, Texas, crowns its champion.

Andrea Hanson | Sep 25, 2023

Devers Upsets Standings in Stephenville With Stellar Final Performance /

In the last performance of the Cowboy Capital of the World PRCA Rodeo, Cody Devers backed in the box with an exact time in mind.

Marc Joiner and Tyler Pearson were tied at the top with an impressive 3.9-second run on the leaderboard. Not far behind was Kyle Irwin with a 4.2-second run, and a tie at 4.3 seconds by Slammer Powers and Justin Shaffer.

With 10 other cowboys in the performance vying for the title, Devers made himself at home in the Cowboy Capital laying down a staggering 3.8-second run to win the weekend rodeo.

Down the road in Pasadena, Texas, Devers set the pace by leading round one with only 3.5 seconds on the clock. The Pasadena Livestock Show and Rodeo is set to host performances each night, concluding Saturday, Sept. 30th.

Currently eleventh in the 2023 steer wrestling world standings, Devers made his National Finals Rodeo debut held in Las Vegas in 2021, finishing 15th. The Balko, Oklahoma cowboy has more than doubled his 2022 career earnings, and has his sights set on the Vegas lights.

With one week left in the 2023 season, cowboys and cowgirls around the 15th spot, or "on the bubble" in each event are giving their all to get off that bubble, and into the coveted yellow Thomas and Mack Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Published Sep 25, 2023

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.