Clayton Sellars Snares San Angelo Xtreme Bulls Title
With the PRCA rodeo schedule warming up, bull rider Clayton Sellars picked a good time to go on a heater.
Sellars won the San Angelo Rodeo Xtreme Bulls with 180.5 points on two-head Sunday.
Sellars was the only cowboy to ride two bulls.
“This feels great,” said Sellars, 22. “The season is heating up, and to get a big step like this right before we hit the summer run was crucial. This a good feeling for sure.”
Sellars earned $9,734 for his performance. He arrived at the San Angelo Xtreme Bulls 13th in the PRCA | RAM World Standings with $17,487.
Sellars finished second in the long round with an 89.5-point ride on Rafter H Rodeo Livestock’s Shagga.
“I had never been on the bull before, but I did see a video of him,” Sellars said. “I knew he was a good bull, and I was able to put it all together.”
Sellars, the second to last rider to ride in the 10-man short round, had a 91.5-point ride on Stockyards Pro Rodeo’s Soy El Fuego. Sellars clinched the win when the final rider, Laramie Mosley, who won the long round with a 90-point ride on Pete Carr Pro Rodeo’s Royal Reel, was bucked off Stockyards Pro Rodeo’s Assault Weapon.
“That was my first time on Soy El Fuego, and I’ve seen him around the last year or two,” Sellars said. “He looked really, really good every time I had seen him, and I was super excited to see my name next to his. That ride felt really good. He was really fast. I had a little trouble toward the end of the ride, and I slid off in the well there for a second. That was kind of scary, but other than that the ride was pretty easy going.”
Sellars joins Fletcher Jowers (Austin, Texas) and Dustin Boquet (San Antonio) as the three winners on the 2021 Division 1 Xtreme Bulls Tour.
Sellars made his National Finals Rodeo debut in 2019, finishing 12th in the PRCA | RAM World Standings with $158,018. Sellars placed in two rounds in Las Vegas, highlighted by splitting third in Round 8 with a 91.5-point ride on Big Stone Rodeo Inc.’s Spotted Demon. He earned $28,827 at the Thomas & Mack Center. He made a return trip to the NFR in 2020, finishing 12th in the world standings again, earning $29,885 at the NFR.
“I’ve learned a lot from my two trips to the NFR,” Sellars said. “The main thing I’ve learned is that it’s not a different sport when you get there. It’s the same thing you have been doing all year. Don’t change anything drastically, don’t try and plan. Just go ahead and do what you always do, which is ride bulls. I know I can win in any given circumstance, and I want to keep my head down and go do that.”
Courtesy of PRCA