Clay O’Brien Cooper

Born: 5/6/1961 Ray, Ariz.
Joined PRCA: 1979
Titles Won: 7
Career Earnings: $2,134,034.00
WNFR Qualifications: 22
Residence: Morgan Mill, TX

2007 World standings place: 5th (heeler)
2007 Wrangler NFR place: 1st
2007 Wrangler NFR earnings: $75,845
2007 earnings: $148,468
Tour Finale titles: 2
Winter: 2006
Championship: 2006
Tour Finale qualifications: 9
Winter: 2000, 2004, 2006
Summer: 2002-04
Championship: 2004, 2006-07

Professional
2007 Highlights – partner Jake Barnes
• Became 10th rodeo competitor to surpass $2 million in career earnings.
• Won the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo average title with a time of 72.60 seconds on 10 head, placing in six rounds. O’Brien Cooper-Barnes became the first team ropers to win an NFR average title in three decades.
• Won the Clark County Fair & Rodeo, Logandale, Nev.
• Won the Canyonlands PRCA Rodeo, Moab, Utah
• Won the Snake River Stampede, Nampa, Idaho
• Won the Puyallup Pro Rodeo, Puyallup, Wash.

Career Highlights
• 2006 – (partner Speed Williams). Placed in four out of 10 rounds at the Wrangler NFR and tied for first in the fifth round with a 4.0-second run. Won the Wrangler ProRodeo Tour Championship (Dallas);Cody (Wyo.) Stampede; Pace Picante ProRodeo Chute-out (Tulsa, Okla.); and Bell County Youth Fair and Livestock Show (Belton, Texas).
• 2004 – (partner David Key) Won the Somervell County 10th Annual Rodeo (Glen Rose, Texas), RodeoHouston, and the Clovis (Calif.) Rodeo; won the Wrangler ProRodeo Tour Round at National Western Stock Show and Rodeo (Denver), Reno (Nev.) Rodeo and the Puyallup (Wash.) Rodeo; was a finalist at Pace Picante ProRodeo Chute-out and won the most money of all team ropers with $15,471; was a semifinalist at Pace Picante ProRodeo Challenge (Omaha, Neb.) and Pace Picante ProRodeo Classic (Dallas); and placed in four of 10 rounds at the Wrangler NFR, tying for the win in Round 8 with a 4.0-second run. Finished the year fifth in the world standings with $136,136.
• 2003 – Won Molalla (Ore.) Buckaroo Days Rodeo, Days of ‘76 Rodeo (Deadwood, S.D.), Caldwell (Idaho) Night Rodeo with partner David Key; finished the year fifth in the world standings with $103,478.
• 2002 – Won (with Jake Barnes) Prescott (Ariz.) Frontier Days Rodeo and Cheyenne (Wyo.) Frontier Days.
• 2001 – Won (with Matt Tyler) Home of Champions Rodeo (Red Lodge, Mont.).
• 2000 – Won (with Matt Tyler) Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo (Colorado Springs, Colo.) and La Fiesta de los Vaqueros (Tucson, Ariz.).
• 1999 – Won (with Jake Barnes) National Western Stock Show & Rodeo (Denver) and the Deadwood (S.D.) Days of ‘76 Rodeo.
• Holds PRCA record with Jake Barnes for most team roping world titles with seven, which was surpassed in 2004.
• NFR team roping average champion, 1985, 1994 and 2007.
• 1994 – Set the NFR average record (with Jake Barnes) (59.1 seconds on 10 head).
• Won Dodge National Circuit Finals Rodeo (with Jake Barnes), 1987, 1989 and 1995-96.
• Won Turquoise Circuit title, 1983-89, 1994; all-around title, 1985-89, 1991, 1993, 1995.

Awards
Horse Supai Drifter (nicknamed Ike) finished second in the PRCA/AQHA Team Roping Heel Horse of the Year race in 2004.

Personal
6-0, 200...Wife, Alisa (married 2004); daughters, Bailey, Quinn…Resumed roping partnership with Jake Barnes in 2007 after a four-year hiatus.