Welcome to the Junior World Finals

2015

Junior World Finals
is founded.
 

The YETI Junior World Finals will host more than 800 contestants within the Wrangler Rodeo Arena over the 10 days in December. Located in the heart of Las Vegas each contestant competes at the Las Vegas Convention Center. These young athletes will compete for more than $1 million in combined cash and prize payout on their quest to claim a coveted Montana Silversmiths championship buckle. It’s the Junior World Finals.

 
 
 
 

‘Best birthday ever’ for Grant

LAS VEGAS – Paisley Grant listened to her mother, and it paid off with a world championship. The Eddyville, Oregon, barrel racer capped a memorable week at the Junior World Finals on Saturday with a 13.830-second run to win the average in the Kelly Kaminski Run for Vegas senior barrel racing with a three-run time […]

On top of the world

Steer wrestler Tad Williams and #10.5 team ropers Wayce McGill and Trey White won Junior World Finals championships Saturday.

Hill Dazzles in pole bending

LAS VEGAS – Four years ago, Kashlee Hill was learning how to walk again. Friday, the 10-year-old from Evanston, Wyoming, was tearing through the pole bending course in the Kelly Kaminski Run for Vegas at the YETI Junior World Finals. Hill and her horse Dazzle had a 19.43-second run – the fastest run of the […]

‘She’s a little survivor’

LAS VEGAS – Sometimes, fate has a way of bringing people together. Other times, it’s simply destiny. For Hobie and Tawni Peterson and their family, it was both. The couple was living in New Meadows, Idaho, a town of about 500 people in the west-central part of the state, when their lives forever changed in […]

jordan learns from the best

LAS VEGAS – Kent Jordan came into this year’s YETI Junior World Finals with the goal to “just keep getting better.” The bulldogger from Tallassee, Alabama, has done just that through the first three rounds of the Ote Berry Junior World Steer Wrestling open division. Jordan won the third round with a 3.8-second run after […]

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