Rodeo Career:
Professional
2008 Toughest Cowboy Results
• Tournament 6, 02/01/08, St. Paul, MN vs. Clovis Crane (Win, 3-1). Suffered a grade two sprain of his left knee. Placed on injured list for remainder of 2008 season.
• Tournament 5, 01/26/08, Philadelphia, PA vs. Trey Broussard (Tie, 2-2)
• Tournament 4, 01/19/08, Greensboro, NC vs. Nelson Tsosie (Loss, 0-4)
• Tournament 3, 01/12/08, Glendale, AZ vs. Jared Green (Win, 3-1)
• Tournament 2, 01/05/08, Raleigh, NC vs. Logan Hodson (Tie, 2-2)
• Tournament 1, 12/29/07, Kansas City, MO vs. Danny Ward (Win, 3-1)
2007 Rodeo Highlights
• Won the State Fair Championship Rodeo (Oklahoma City, Okla.).
• Won the Northeast Arkansas District Fair Rodeo (Jonesboro).
• Won the Tri-State Rodeo (Fort Madison, Iowa).
• Won the St. Paul (Ore.) Rodeo.
• Won the Roughrider Days Rodeo (Dickinson, N.D.).
• Won RodeoHouston.
Career Highlights
• Wrangler NFR qualifications: 6 (2002-07)…2005 unable to compete due to injury
• 2006 – Won his first world title setting a new Wrangler NFR bull riding earnings record of $142,644…Won his first Wrangler NFR average title with a total score of 696.5 points on eight head, becoming the first bull rider since Blue Stone in 2001 to ride eight head at the Wrangler NFR…First Wisconsin bull rider to win a world title and first Wisconsin cowboy since Jack Buschbom won the bareback riding title in 1949, 1959-60 to win a world title…Placed in eight out of 10 rounds, winning the first round with a score of 91.5 points, the third round with a 90-point ride (a round that saw the rest of the field get bucked off), and the 10th round with a 92.5-point ride…Won the Arkansas State Fair & Rodeo (Little Rock), the Southwestern International Livestock Show & Rodeo (El Paso, Texas), the Juneau County Fair Pro Rodeo (Mauston, Wis.), the Glenwood City (Wis.) Championship Rodeo, the Beef Empire Days PRCA Rodeo (Garden City, Kan.), the Licking (Mo.) Chamber of Commerce PRCA Rodeo and the Panola County Cattlemen’s PRCA Rodeo (Carthage, Texas).
• 2005 – Qualified for the Wrangler NFR…Had to withdraw after suffering a broken collarbone just weeks prior to the event…Qualified for the Pace Picante ProRodeo Challenge but was unable to compete after breaking his sternum…Bruising his heart and puncturing a lung when a bull stepped on him at the Pendleton (Ore.) Round-up…Won the Magic Valley Stampede (Filer, Idaho), the Wrangler ProRodeo Tour and average titles at the San Antonio (Texas) Stock Show and Rodeo, the average title at the Clark County Fair & Rodeo (Logandale, Nev.), the North Central Rodeo (Medford, Wis.) and was co-champion at the Farm-City Pro Rodeo (Hermiston, Ore.) and the Licking (Mo.) Chamber of Commerce PRCA Rodeo…Qualified for the Pace Picante ProRodeo Classic after riding Big Bend’s Tahonta for 91 points in the semifinal round of the Pace Picante ProRodeo Chute-out advancing him to the U.S. Army Championship Round…Finished the year ranked 14th in the world with $88,468.
• 2004 – Finished seventh in the world and was eighth in the Wrangler NFR average…Xtreme Bulls: San Antonio – scored 81.5 points in the semifinals and 95 points in the finals to finish first in the overall Tour standings…Clovis – 85.5 points in semifinals and 79 points in the finals to finish fifth in the overall Tour stop…Reno – scored 78 points in the semifinals and finished tied for sixth in the overall Tour stop standings…Was among a three-way tie atop the Tour’s final earnings leaderboard but was awarded the overall title based on a tie-breaker…Won Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show (Fort Worth, Texas) and Cowboy Capital of the World ProRodeo (Stephenville, Texas)…Finalist at Pace Chute-out (Las Vegas).
• 2003 – Xtreme Bulls: San Antonio – placed fifth in the average after a 90-point in the semifinals… Houston – scored 63 points in the semifinals and finished 13th…Austin – scored 88.5 points in the semifinals and 93.5 points in the finals to win the Tour stop…Reno – scored 79 points in the semifinals and in the finals to place seventh overall for the Tour stop…Salt Lake City – scored 88 in the semifinals and finished eighth in the Tour stop’s overall standings…Ellensburg – scored 87.5 points in the semifinals and was bucked in the finals to finish seventh place overall in the Tour stop standings… Omaha – scored 79 points in the semifinals and 94.5 points in the finals to finish ranked sixth in the Tour stop standings…Waco – scored 79 points in the semifinals and finished 12th in the overall Tour stop standings…finished sixth in the final Xtreme Bulls standings…Won the Dodge National Circuit Finals Rodeo (Pocatello, Idaho), Pace Picante ProRodeo Challenge (Omaha, Neb.), and Round 6 with an 87.5-point ride and co-winner in Round 4 with a 90.5-point ride at the Wrangler NFR…Was second in the world with $178,435 and was second in the average at the Wrangler NFR.
• 2002 – Won the Cody (Wyo.) Stampede and Ellensburg Xtreme Bull Riding; finished 13th in the world. Took a bull’s horn to the mouth, breaking his nose and knocking out three teeth and causing him to start wearing a helmet.
• 2001 – Joined the PRCA. Spent most of 2001 trying to heal a broken leg. He broke his leg early in season and had a rod inserted. Later that year he bent the rod and had to have surgery
Amateur
National High School Finals Rodeo bareback riding champion and reserve all-around champion, 1999.

Personal
Hobbies include breaking and training horses for barrel racing and calf roping…Graduated from Hillsboro (Wis.) High School with 30 classmates…Father is Eddie, and mom is Jayne Potter…Has one sister, Jenni Potter…Eddie is a horse trainer and sells horses…Jayne works for Lands End and is B.J.’s bookkeeper …Father was instrumental in getting B.J. started in rodeo by serving as his coach…In high school, he competed in seven events that included bareback, saddle bronc, bull riding, steer wrestling, team roping, calf roping and cutting…Competed in bareback riding for three years and saddle bronc riding for five years but said they were more nerve wracking than bull riding because a horse could hurt you worse in the chutes, so specialized in bull riding…Competed in bareback riding in the PRCA his permit year and this was probably his best event…Favorite food is lasagna,…Favorite magazine is the ProRodeo Sports News…Favorite athletes outside of rodeo are Peyton Manning and Brett Favre…Favorite movie is Lonesome Dove and most John Wayne movies.

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