Champion
BULL RIDER
Congratulations B.J., for winning the PBR here at the Fiddle Back Ranch in 2001!
4 Time PBR Finals Qualifier
2000 Grand Rapids Bud Light Cup Champion
1999 Worcester, MA Bud Light Cup Champion
2 Time Glen Keeley Award Winner
Top student graduate of Twin Falls Id, as ASE certified Auto Body Technician
2
time National
High School Rodeo Finals qualifier 
1995 Province (State) Champion bull rider
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BJ was born and raised in Crooked Creek, Alberta, Canada. This is just a rural community where he went to school but no town exists. His school consisted of grades K-12 with just over 300 students. He was involved in hockey, skiing, and all other regular school sports. BJ grew up on a ranch tending cattle and doing regular farm work. When he was 4 years old he rode his first sheep. There was no stopping him then. He traveled the summer months with his Dad David to all the Canadian Professional Rodeos (CPRA) where his Dad would ride bulls and bareback horses and BJ would ride sheep. It was then that he was first televised on the opening of a show called “Live It Up”. He was part of the opening in the TV program where a sheep rolled on top of him. But he hung on there and won the Innisfail Pro Rodeo Sheep Riding and won that prestigious buckle and $45. At age 7 he rode his first steer but it was not as easy as he pictured it and he decided he would wait a couple of years before he tried it again. When BJ was 11 years old he bought his CPRA permit to ride in the boys steer riding. By now BJ’s Dad had retired and living so far up north traveling to the southern professional rodeos carried a great expense. His Dad took him to his first rodeo in Hobema (Christmas Rodeo) and introduced him to all the people that he had known when he was rodeoing. After that, BJ was on his own. Determined to give rodeo a try BJ would look through the Canadian Sports News to find rodeos to enter and proceed to call other contestants for transportation and accommodations between events all the while doing homework and household chores. He would often ride the Greyhound bus (sometimes for 3 hours) from his house to meet other cowboys traveling south to get a ride to a rodeo. He learned not to be shy about asking who was going in the direction he needed to go so that he would not be left alone or left behind. The top 6 steer riders qualify for the Canada Finals Rodeo and in his second year of competition lacked only $23 to make the Finals.
From there BJ moved on to amateur and High School
rodeos.
He was successful in winning All-around Championships by competing in bareback
riding, calf roping, team roping and bull riding.
BJ has two sisters. The oldest is married and her name is Kim. Growing up, Kim constantly beat him in the Jr. Steer Riding competitions. She won the Championship in their Jr. Association an went on to become the Canadian Champion Women’s Cow Rider. She has been tremendously successful in rodeo and is currently an on-farm vet practicing animal chiropractic’s, training horses and managing a ranch very close to where they grew up. The younger sister is Kasey and she is 14 years old and attends the same school BJ did. Like Kim, Kasey is at the top of her class and very active in sports her best being rodeo. She is following in the families rodeo footsteps and doing a fine job of filling them. BJ’s parents are Arlene and David. His Mom spends most of her time worrying about her kids something that Mom’s do best. She attends the cattle and daily endeavors that come with the ranch while his Dad David works out in the oil field
