Ranch Rodeo World Champions Claim Glory

The Working Ranch Cowboys Association crowns the 2023 champions in Amarillo, Texas.

Andrea Hanson | Nov 12, 2023

Ranch Rodeo World Champions Claim Glory /

AMARILLO, Texas. - Contestants at the World Championship Ranch Rodeo Finals have worked hard to showcase their skills this weekend in Amarillo, Texas.

The Working Ranch Cowboys Association awarded those teams from ranches across the West, on their ability to compete in five events they do everyday.

Each team worked together in the stray gathering, team penning, wild cow milking, team branding, and sent one brave cowboy out on a ranch bronc. Two rounds of competition combined scores for an average.

With over $248,000 in prizes available, the top five teams came within 47 points of each other. Though the glory went back to Pawhuska, Oklahoma, with Sooner Cattle Company.

World Championship Ranch Rodeo Placings

5. Muleshoe Ranch/Hatchet Ranch - 241

4. Jolly Ranch/S&L Cattle - 244.5

3. 6666-Dixon Creek Division - 252.5

2. Rocking P Cattle/S&P Ranch - 253.5

1. Sooner Cattle Company - 287

Event Winners

Team Branding - Singleton Ranches

Wild Cow Milking - Jolly Ranch/S&L Cattle

Team Penning - Sooner Cattle Company

Stray Gathering - Southwest Livestock

Ranch Bronc - Sooner Cattle Company - Corey Hurd (tie) Beachner Bros Livestock - Marshall Hyer

Top Horse

Reserve - Waylon Davis - EC Cattle/Mule Creek Cattle

Champion - TJ Roberts - Hat Creek Cattle

Top Hand

Reserve - Colton Potter - Rocking P Cattle

Champion - Corey Hurd - Sooner Cattle Company

Published Nov 12, 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.