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Austin Foss

Austin Foss – Terrebonne, Ore. ($92,895)
4-time WNFR qualifier

A bareback riding glove that gets wedged into the handle of a rigging is much more than a tool for Austin Foss of Terrebonne, Oregon.

The four-time Wrangler National Finals Rodeo qualifier customizes those gloves for his fellow competitors and uses his own glove to keep track of his rides and remind him to keep improving. Each time he is more than 80 points on a ride, he stamps an eight on his glove. He pulled out some old gloves and did some calculating. The glove he rode with in 2012 had about 20 of the eights on it. The next year it was 26. During this year’s regular season, he has been 80 points or better a total of 45 times and even got to put a nine on his glove for a ride that topped 90 this year.

That success during the regular season has Austin headed to the NFR in 11th place with $92,895. A native Oregonian, Austin won the state title in high school twice. He went on to Blue Mountain Community College in Pendleton and finished fifth at the College National Finals Rodeo in 2012, the same year he won the PRCA Rookie-of-the-Year title.

One year later, he qualified for the first of three NFRs. He took a year off from the PRCA in 2016, then finished in the top 30 the next two years. In May of 2018, he made a life-long commitment and got married.

Not only is Austin excited to be nodding his head in the Thomas and Mack Center again, his wife Bridget is anxious to be there supporting her husband. An avid outdoorsman, Austin has built up his own timber milling business that keeps him busy when he’s not on the road. And, any extra time he has while traveling will have him getting his tools out and working on gloves.

He is hoping that he needs to get those tools out and add more eights and nines to his glove during the NFR.

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