Allen Bach

Born: 4/30/1957 Soap Lake, Wash.
Joined PRCA: 1978
Titles Won: 4
Career Earnings: $2,121,322.00
WNFR Qualifications: 26
Residence: Weatherford, TX
2007 World standings place: 4th
2007 Wrangler NFR place: 2nd
2007 Wrangler NFR earnings: $73,245
2007 earnings: $149,322
Tour Finale qualifications: 15
Winter: 2002, 2004-06
Summer: 2000-04, 2006
Championship: 2003-07

Professional
2008 Highlights - with partner Speed Williams
• Won La Fiesta de los Vaqueros, Tucson, Ariz.
• Won the Oakdale (Calif.) Saddle Club Rodeo
Career Highlights
• 2007 – Became 11th rodeo competitor to surpass $2 million in career earnings, following Clay O’Brien Cooper. Won Home of Champions Rodeo, Red Lodge, Montana with Chad Masters; the Canby (Ore.) Rodeo with Luke Brown and the West Texas Fair & Rodeo, Abilene, Texas, with Luke Brown
• 2006 –Won the Wrangler NFR average title, with Chad Masters, in a time of 88.5 seconds on ten head en route to his fourth world title. Won the second and third rounds with times of 4.5 and 4.3 seconds, respectively. Won $98,714 at the Wrangler NFR, setting a new team roping earnings record. Won the Rancho Mission Viejo Rodeo (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.), the Colorado State Fair & Rodeo (Pueblo) and the St. Paul (Ore.) Rodeo, all with Charly Crawford; Won the average title at the SandHills Stock Show and Rodeo (Odessa, Texas) with Travis Tryan.
• 2005 – (Partner Travis Tryan) Won the Rancho Mission Viejo Rodeo (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.), the Sonora (Texas) Outlaw Pro Rodeo, the Wild Bill Hickok Rodeo (Abilene, Kan.) and the Laramie (Wyo.) Jubilee Days; qualified for the Pace Picante ProRodeo Classic after finishing second at the Pace Picante ProRodeo Chute-out; won the Wrangler Tour Round and average titles at San Angelo (Texas) Stock Show and La Fiesta de los Vaqueros (Tucson, Ariz.).
• 2004 – (Partner Jake Barnes) Finished third in the world with $136,976 and 14th in the average at the Wrangler NFR with $60,779 in earnings; Co-champion at La Fiesta de los Vaqueros (Tucson, Ariz.); Semifinalist at the Pace Chute-out (Las Vegas, Nev.); finished second at the Pace Challenge (Omaha, Neb.) and third at the Pace Classic (Dallas); and won Round 3 at the Wrangler NFR with at time of 5.5 seconds and tied for the win in Round 10 with a time of 4.0.
• 2003 – Won team roping title at the California Rodeo (Salinas) and Heart O’ Texas Fair & Rodeo (Waco) with partner Clay Tryan; won $12,533 at the Pace Classic with partner Jake Barnes; won Rd. 6 with a 3.9-second run and Rd. 9 with a 4.2 at the Wrangler NFR with partner Jake Barnes; was second at the Wrangler NFR with $81,079 in earnings and finished the year second in the world with $149,275.
• 2002 – Tied Wrangler NFR team roping arena record with a 3.8-second run (with Frank Graves); won team roping title at the Colorado State Fair Rodeo (Pueblo) (with Trevor Brazile); earned $59,958 at the Wrangler NFR and finished eighth in the average.
• 2001 – Won (with Daniel Green) team roping titles at St. Paul (Ore.) Rodeo, Oakley (Utah) Independence Day Rodeo, Reno (Nev.) Rodeo, and Pine Country Pro Rodeo (Flagstaff, Ariz.).
• 2000 – Summer Wrangler ProRodeo Tour team roping points leader; won the team roping title at the Oakdale (Calif.) Saddle Club Rodeo (with Daniel Green).
• 1999 – Won (with Daniel Green) team roping titles at Oakdale (Calif.) Saddle Club Rodeo and California Rodeo Salinas; won team roping title in California Circuit.
• 1993 – Won five NFR rounds in a row (with Bobby Hurley).
• 1990 – Won the California Circuit team roping title.
• 1979 – Won the NFR team roping aggregate title (with Jesse James)

Awards
Was honored with the inaugural Foster Friess Mentoring Award given by the ProRodeo Hall of Fame and Athletes in Action, 2006.

Personal
6-4, 195…Wife, Peggy (married in 1978); daughters, April, Erica; sons, Joel, Tyler…Hobbies include basketball, golf, and water skiing…Became an ordained minister on Jan. 28, 2007……Founded the ministry Forever Cowboys (www.forevercowboys.com), which emphasizes the cowboy standards of integrity, honesty and excellence…Operates a roping school….Allen was one of six children of Courtney and Laura Bach, and grew up on a ranch in Washington.