HAILEY
Kinsel Events: Barrel Racing
Born: 10/3/1994
Joined the WPRA: 2015
WPRA Career Earnings: $497,516
World tles: 1 (2018)
Wrangler NFR qualicaons: 2 (2017-18)
Current Residence: Cotulla, TX
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
2018: Won Calgary Stampede; Won San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo and set a
new arena record; Won Sanders County Fair & PRCA Rodeo (Plains, MT); Won
Fallon County Fair & Rodeo (Baker, MT); Won That Famous Preston (Idaho)
Night Rodeo; Won Home of Champions Rodeo (Red Lodge, MT); Won Black Hills
Roundup (Belle Fourche, SD); Won West of the Pecos (TX) Rodeo; Won Clovis (CA)
Rodeo; Finished second at RodeoHouston; Finished second at the Fort Worth
Stock Show and Rodeo.
2017: Moved from seventh in the world to reserve world champion aer 10 days
in Las Vegas. Set the new arena record at the NFR with a 13.11 during the third
round. set a new earnings record at the NFR aer winning $189,385. Finished
sixth in the average aer placing in eight out of 10 rounds winning four of them;
Won a gold medal at the Days of ‘47 Cowboy ames and Rodeo (Salt Lake City,
UT); Finished second at the Tri-State Fair and Rodeo (Amarillo, TX); Finished
second at the Dinosaur Days Rodeo (Vernal, UT); Won West of the Pecos (TX) Rodeo;
Finished second at the uymon (OK) Pioneer Days Rodeo; Finished second at
the San Patricio County PRCA Rodeo (Sinton, TX); Tied for second at the Naonal
Western Stock Show and Rodeo (Denver, CO).
2016: Won the Elizabeth (CO) Stampede; the Longview (TX) PRCA Rodeo; the
Crocke (TX) Lions Club PRCA Rodeo and the Hugo (OK) PRCA Rodeo.
Hailey Kinsel grew up on her family’s commercial beef cale ranch in South Texas.
She was a gymnast unl age eleven and she decided to follow the rodeo world
instead of the Olympic route. She competed on the Texas A&M University rodeo
team. Kinsel’s WPRA season changed in July 2017 when she won $50,000 at the
Days of ‘47 Cowboy ames and Rodeo and set her on the path to the Wrangler
NFR. She also won a share of $1 million when she won the barrel racing tle at
RFD-TVs the American in Dallas in February, 2017 and was second in 2018.
Informaon courtesy of WPRA www.wpra.com. Photos courtesy of
PRCA www.prorodeo.com
PRCA ProRodeo photo by James Phifer
PRCA ProRodeo photo by James Phifer
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