Stran Smith

Born: 7/14/1970
Joined PRCA: 1994
Titles Won: 0
Career Earnings: $1,357,677.00
WNFR Qualifications: 9
Residence: Childress, TX
2007 World standings place: 5th
2007 Wrangler NFR place: 2nd
2007 Wrangler NFR earnings: $86,202
2007 earnings: $156,677
Tour Finale titles: 1
Summer: 2001
Tour Finale qualifications: 7
Winter: 2004-05
Summer: 2001-02, 2005
Championship: 2004-05
Education: Vernon (Texas) Regional Junior College; West Texas A&M University (Canyon)

Professional
2008 Highlights
• Won the Star of Texas Fair & Rodeo, Austin
• Won the San Angelo (Texas) Stock Show & Rodeo
• Won the Red Bluff (Calif.) Roundup
• Won the New Mexico Stampede, Rio Rancho
2007 Highlights
• Won Round 2 at the Wrangler NFR after an 8.0-second run, then claimed the title in Round 9 with a time of 7.2 seconds. Placed in six of the rodeo’s 10 rounds
• Co-champion at the Rowell Ranch Rodeo, Hayward, Calif.
• Won the Livermore Rodeo, Livermore, Calif.
• Won the Spanish Fork (Utah) Fiesta Days Rodeo
• Won the Deadwood Days of '76 Rodeo, Deadwood, S.D.
• Co-champion at the Cache County Fair & Rodeo, Logan, Utah

Career Highlights
• 2006 – Underwent shoulder surgery in November and was sidelined until May 2007. Won the Industry (Calif.) Hills Charity Pro Rodeo; Barstow (Calif.) Rodeo Stampede; Poway (Calif.) Rodeo; Kitsap County Fair & Stampede (Bremerton, Wash.); XIT Rodeo & Reunion (Dalhart, Texas) and the Oakdale (Calif.) Rodeo. Won Wrangler ProRodeo Tour Round at La Fiesta de los Vaqueros (Tucson, Ariz.)
• 2005 – Won the all-around title at the La Fiesta de los Vaqueros (Tucson, Ariz.); co-champion in tie-down roping at the Spokane (Wash.) Interstate Fair and Rodeo; won tie-down roping titles at Kansas Biggest Rodeo (Phillipsburg, Kan.), the Dinosaur Roundup Rodeo (Vernal, Utah) and the World’s Oldest Rodeo Prescott (Ariz.) Frontier Days; won the Wrangler ProRodeo Tour Round and average title at the Caldwell (Idaho) Night Rodeo, La Fiesta de los Vaqueros (Tucson, Ariz.) and the Guymon (Okla.) Pioneer Days Rodeo; was co-champion at the St. Paul (Ore.) Rodeo; placed 10th in the tie-down roping at the Wrangler NFR with $64,111; finished the year fourth in the world with $160,341
• 2004 – Finished just $1,778 behind world champion Monty Lewis with $182,918 and was second in the all-around with $192,696; won Black Hills Stock Show and Rodeo (Rapid City, S.D.), Greeley (Colo.) Rocky Mountain Stampede, Deadwood (S.D.) Days of ’76 Rodeo and Red Bluff (Calif.); tied for first in the Tour round at Laughlin (Nev.) River Stampede; won (with Clint Robinson) team roping title at Clark County Fair & Rodeo (Logandale, Nev.); won the all-around title at Gladewater (Texas) Round-up; finalist at Pace Chute-out (Las Vegas); placed in six out of 10 rounds at the Wrangler NFR, winning Round 4 with a 7.4-second run, Round 7 with a 7.2 and Round 10 with a 7.2. Finished 13th in the Wrangler NFR average picking up $65,070
• 2003 – Won Deadwood (S.D.) Days of ‘76 Rodeo and was the co-champion at the Southwest Exposition & Livestock Show (Fort Worth, Texas); finished 18th in the world standings with $42,474
• 2002 – Won title at Rancho Mission Viejo Rodeo (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.)
• 2001 – Won the Oakdale (Calif.) Saddle Club Rodeo, Copenhagen Cup Finale (Dallas); tied PRCA single-run tie-down roping record (6.7 seconds in Dallas) later broken by Cody Ohl at the 2003 Wrangler NFR with a time of 6.5 seconds
• 2000 – Won the Reno (Nev.) Rodeo and Pine Country Pro Rodeo
• 1999 – Won all-around title at the Reno (Nev.) Rodeo
• 1998 – Won all-around title at the Caldwell (Idaho) Night Rodeo; won tie-down roping title at Greeley (Colo.) Independence Stampede
• 1997 – Won all-around and tie-down roping titles in the Texas Circuit; won tie-down roping title at San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo
• 1996 – Won the tie-down roping title at the California Rodeo Salinas
• 1995 – Co-champion tie-down roper at the NILE Rodeo (Billings, Mont.)

Awards
Original Coors Fans Favorite Cowboy, 1998 and 2001. His horse, Topofthemarket or “Topper” was twice voted the PRCA/AQHA Horse of the Year, in 2003, 2005 (died April 5, 2007 after being struck by a car in a hit-and-run accident near Smith's Childress, Texas ranch)

Personal
6-3, 190...Wife, Jennifer (Douglas), works as TV reporter for PRCA broadcasts; sons, Stone and Scout...A heart defect caused Smith to suffer a mild stroke in April 2003, and he underwent a procedure to correct the atrial septal defect in a procedure May 20, 2003 at Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston. He returned to competition in July at the Snake River Stampede in Nampa, Idaho...Primary competition horse is Destiny, purchased from Wes Adams...Hobbies include all sports and spending time with his kids…Appeared in the April 2006 issue of European GQ Magazine and was on the cover of the 2007 January/February issue of Stroke Smart