Jake Barnes - Team Roping (Header)

Born: April 4, 1959 (Huntsville, Texas)
Residence: Scottsdale, Ariz.
Joined PRCA: 1980
World Titles: 7 (1985-89, 1992, 1994)
Wrangler NFR Qualifications: 19 (1981-89, 1991-95, 1998-99, 2004, invited in 1980 and 1990)
Pace Picante Series Qualifications: 5
Pace Chute-out: 2004
Pace Challenge: 2003-04
Pace Classic: 2003-04
2004 World Standings Place: 5th (TR-header)
2004 Wrangler NFR Place (partner Allen Bach): 14th
2004 Wrangler NFR Earnings: $60,779
2004 Earnings: $134,685
Career Earnings: $1,570,212

Professional
2004 Highlights
(partner Allen Bach)
* Co-champion at La Fiesta de los Vaqueros (Tucson, Ariz.).
* Semifinalist at the Pace Chute-out.
* Finished second at the Pace Challenge (Omaha, Neb.).
* Horse Heza Gray Moon (nickname Barney) finished second in the PRCA/AQHA Team Roping Head Horse of the Year race.
* Won Rd. 3 at the Wrangler NFR with at time of 5.5 seconds and tied for the win in Rd. 10 with a time of 4.0.
2003 Highlights
(partner Boogie Ray)
* Won Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo (Colorado Springs, Colo.).
* Won Puyallup (Wash.) Rodeo.
* Won Pendleton (Ore.) Round-Up.
* High point winner on the summer Tour.
* Won sixth round with a 3.9-second run and ninth round with a 4.2 at the Wrangler NFR with partner Allen Bach.

Career Highlights
2002 — Won (with Clay O'Brien Cooper) Prescott (Ariz.) Frontier Days Rodeo and Cheyenne (Wyo.) Frontier Days Rodeo.
1999 — Won (with Clay O'Brien Cooper) National Western Stock Show & Rodeo (Denver).
1998 — Won (with John Paul Lucero) Turquoise Circuit Finals Rodeo.
1994 — Set team roping average record (with Clay O'Brien Cooper) (59.1 seconds on 10 head).
* Holds PRCA record for most team roping world titles at seven.
* Won NFR team roping average championship (1985 and 1994).
* Won Dodge National Circuit Finals Rodeo with Clay O'Brien Cooper (1987, 1989 and 1995-96).
* Won Turquoise Circuit year-end title (1985-89, 1992, 1994-95 and 1997).

Personal
6-3, 200 ... Wife, Toni (married 1989); daughters, Sunny and Shelly; sons Tuff, Bo Jake and Anthony. ... Hobbies include playing basketball, hunting and fishing.... Enjoys watching Dallas Mavericks and Sacramento Kings. ... His great uncle was a world champion tie-down roper and he wanted to be like him so that is how he got his start.... Parents are Raymond and Tootsie and he has one sister.... Horse is named Roma.