Bareback Rider Logan Corbett Retires
Bareback rider Logan Corbett is calling it a career.
The two-time RAM National Circuit Finals Rodeo qualifier has had his priorities change recently.
“I’ve been thinking about this for a while and it is time,” said Corbett, who qualified for the RAM NCFR in 2012 and 2021. “When the pain of missing my wife and kids outweighs the enjoyment I get from riding bucking horses it’s time to move on and start a new chapter.”
The 32-year-old’s final ride was a 72.5-point trip aboard C5 Rodeo’s Two Times The Money at the Calgary Stampede July 12.
“I feel like I performed to the best of my ability (at the Calgary Stampede),” Corbett said. “I was able to soak up some sunshine in the arena in Calgary at a rodeo I grew up as a child watching on VHS tapes and dreaming of one day competing there. The fact that I can call it good with my last day competing in Calgary, I’m good with that. I have no regrets.”
Corbett bought his PRCA permit in 2010 and his PRCA card in 2016. He’s 48th in the PRCA | RAM World Standings with $7,041.
“I used five (PRCA permits) when I was in college and made the (RAM) Great Lakes Circuit Finals every year,” Corbett said. “I thought that was going to be as good as it gets for me, and then I started coaching the rodeo team at New Mexico State in Las Cruces in 2016, and they talked me into getting on one (a bareback horse) in the fall of 2016. I put in the work, and it was really, really good.”
Corbett works for Doug Champion at Champion Living Fitness. Champion, the brother of six-time Wrangler National Finals Rodeo bareback rider Richmond Champion, specializes in rodeo athletes’ fitness.
Corbett is an assistant coach for Doug Champion, who recently moved his Living Fitness headquarters to Greeley, Colo.
“I train athletes with program workouts and I’m a nutrition coach for them also,” Corbett said. “Primarily I work with rodeo athletes, but not exclusively. It is all remote coaching. I do it from a computer, typically speaking, from home.”
Corbett lives in West Frankfort, Ill., where his wife, Lacey, is from.
“We have three small children, a daughter, Conlee, 4, and sons Cannon, 2, and Callen, 1, so we moved back there to get some help with the family,” Corbett said. “My wife just started back running barrels, and two of my children, Conlee and Cannon, started junior rodeoing locally. We have a lot of irons in the fire. I enjoy being with them, and my wife has been so supportive of me and my rodeo career. We have been married for six years and we have been together for 14 years, and now is her time to shine.
“With me doing remote training, I’m able to be with my kids and my wife every day. It’s great.”
Courtesy of PRCA