I'm sure by now, every barrel racer knows that the NFR is fast approaching and on December 1 2016, you can bet they will be glued to their televisions for those ten days! The National Finals Rodeo is the "Super Bowl" of rodeo and the prize money is some of the biggest in the industry with almost $85,000 being paid off per round, and over $250,000 for the final average award. There are also other cash and awards being given out including a new Dodge truck, saddles to the top 15 girls, and many other items. There will be a total of $10,000,000 awarded in total prize money with $1,100,000 given to the barrel racers.
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Mary Burger (pictured right) set the world on fire this year earning a whopping $190,977 competing as also the oldest girl this year at 67 years old! The list of the top 15 girls in the world that get to compete at this years NFR has been released and they are as follows in order of money earned. Click on any of the girls names to see their profile and accomplishments for the 2016 season as well as information about the horses they are competing on!
- Mary Burger
Source - Jackie Ganter
- Mary Walker
- Ivy Conrodo
- Kimmie Wall
- Stevie Hillman
- Lisa Lockhart
- Sarah Rose McDonald
- Michelle McLeod
- Cayla Melby
- Pamela Capper
- Sherry Cervi
- Carley Richardson
- Jana Bean
- Amberleigh Moore
Nice post hannah, the layout is clean and thought out. You can tell you know what your talking about and are very interested.
ReplyDeleteFantastic work Hannah. My ONLY critique is that you could have embedded a link to NFR in either reference.
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