Jake Cooper

Jake Cooper – Monument, N.M. ($73,191)
3-time WNFR Qualifier

Fans are very excited to see the Cooper family represented in the team roping at the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo again. Jake Cooper, son of 1981 all around world champ and ProRodeo Hall of Fame inductee Jimmy Cooper qualified for this year’s NFR in the final spot.

He’ll rope there with Caleb Anderson who he has roped with all year. He qualified the first time in 2007 where he was heading for his twin brother Jim Ross Cooper. They made history as the only twins to compete in the team roping at the NFR.

Jim Ross has been back to Las Vegas to compete at rodeo’s championships four more times, from 2011 – 2014. Those year’s Jake was on the sidelines. Jake qualified in 2015 and roped with Russell Cardoza then and now it will be Jim Ross who is in the stands.

They are related to those other roping Coopers. Tuf’s father, Roy, and Jimmy are first cousins. While the other Coopers have gravitated to tie-down roping, Jake and Jim Ross have always loved team roping.

Jake and Caleb got the season off to a good start last March at Rodeo Houston. They finished as reserve champions winning over $20,000 each. They continued collecting checks throughout the year. Jake will enter this year’s NFR in 15th place with regular season earnings of $73,191.

Jake’s success this year is in part due to having two good horses that he can depend on in any situation. After taking a hard look at his roping and trying to figure out the missing link, he decided he needed better horses. When Trevor Brazile said he was not going to rodeo as much this year, Jake didn’t believe him.

Trevor proved it when he sold his heading horse, Pine Time Boogie “Boogie” to him. Jake also has a gelding named Streakin Sun Dew that works good when the cattle have a longer head start. He rode him at Cheyenne Frontier Days and won over $7,500.

Great horses, great family, great fans will all be ready for Jake Cooper to do some great roping at the 2019 NFR.