Courtesy of World Champions Rodeo Alliance
The PBR World Finals isn't the only big rodeo event coming to Cowtown next year.
The World Champions Rodeo Alliance (WCRA) and Professional Bull Riders (PBR) announced Monday that the Women’s Rodeo World Championship (WRWC) will also move from Las Vegas to Fort Worth, starting in May 2022. The final WRWC in Las Vegas will take place Oct. 26 – 29 at South Point Arena, and the 2022 event will take place at both Cowtown Coliseum and Dickies Arena on May 16 – 17, in conjunction with the PBR World Finals on May 13 – 22.
WRWC is the largest payout event in the history of women’s rodeo — the 2021 event has a payout of $750,000. When the event took place for the first time in 2020, four women took home a minimum of $60,000 each while the all-around champion collected a $20,000 cash bonus. The event dished out equal money in all disciplines — team roping, breakaway roping, and barrel racing — and cut checks to more than 250 female athletes.
Athletes can qualify for the event by either making the WRWC leaderboard or earning a generic qualification through a Qualifiers Series event.
“We are ecstatic about this forever home for the WRWC in the heart of cowboy country as we continue to change the landscape of women’s rodeo, offering the world’s largest payout in the history of women’s rodeo and showcasing these athletes to the world on national television broadcast,” WCRA President Bobby Mote said in a statement. “Ushering in this new era of women’s rodeo at an event with this level of payout and visibility is something we take great pride in.”
More information is available at womensrodeoworldchampionship.com.
