Trevor Brazile (born November 16, 1976) is a semi-retired American rodeo cowboy who competed in the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) and partners with a cowboy named Miles Baker. He was inducted into the ProRodeo Hall of Fame in 2022. He holds the record for the most PRCA world championship titles with 26. He won his 26th title in 2020. He also holds the record for the most all-around cowboy world champion titles at 14, breaking the record of 7 titles held by Ty Murray; Murray's last earned was in 1998.

Early life Brazile was born in Amarillo, Texas, and says that "he wants to be remembered as a great cowboy".

Career Brazile won the all-around world championship in 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2006 through 2015, and in 2018. He won the tie-down roping world championship in 2007, 2009 and 2010. He won the team roping world championship in 2010. He won the steer roping world championship in 2006, 2007, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2019 and 2020. He won four National Finals Steer Roping (NFSR) Average titles in 2012, 2014, 2015, and 2020. He also won two National Finals Rodeo (NFR) Average titles. One was in team roping in 2008 and one was in tie-down roping in 2010.

Brazile won the most money during the Fourth of July week for the 2006 season with $24,894. He became the youngest PRCA cowboy and the seventh overall to cross the $2 million mark in career earnings. In 2006, he won six Team Roping titles with partner Rich Skelton. He also won the Wrangler ProRodeo Tour Round and average titles at the Ellensburg Rodeo. In 2007, he became first Triple Crown winner in 24 years, and just the tenth in history, by winning the all-around, tie-down roping and steer roping gold buckles. He broke his own single-season record with earnings of $425,115 and moved from seventh to third on the career earnings list. He won two team roping titles with partner Patrick Smith in Rounds 4 and 5 of Wrangler National Finals Rodeo, and a tie-down roping title in Round 7 of the event.

In 2008, he became the first PRCA cowboy to cross the $3 million mark in career earnings. He earned an all-around title at Caldwell Night Rodeo during the first round Ariat Playoffs. He also won six Team Roping Titles with partner Patrick Smith. In 2009, he tied for first place in Round 5 of tie-down roping, with a time of 7.1 seconds, and placed in three other rounds en route to clinching his second world championship in that event in three years and a record-tying seventy all-around gold buckle; placed in one round of the team roping with Patrick Smith. By earning his 11th world championship, Brazile moved into a tie for third place on the career list with Dean Oliver and Charmayne James." He won seven team roping titles with Patrick Smith.

In 2010, he and Smith won two team roping titles. In 2010, Brazile won his 8th all-around title, surpassing Murray's seven titles from 1998. Murray's titles were won all in roughstock events, as opposed to Brazile's timed-event wins, and he is still the youngest winner of the title. In 2013, Brazile won another all-around title and his total number of world titles moved to 19, breaking Guy Allen's record of 18 world championship titles. As of 2020, Brazile has 26 world titles, eight more than Allen, who is in second place with 18 titles, and Shoulders is in third place with 16 titles.

In 2015, he was named the NFR All-Around Cowboy Champion, and took first in Tie Down Roping Rounds 1 and 8, with times of 6.8 seconds and 6.5 seconds, respectively. In Round 8, he tied Cody Ohl's arena record. Brazile announced his retirement from full-time rodeo at the end of the 2018 NFR. In 2019, Brazile was on a reduced schedule as per his announcement at the end of the previous year's season, but still won the steer roping event this year and his 25th gold buckle. Brazile placed in all ten rounds of the PRCA National Finals Steer Roping (NFSR) in Mulvane, Kansas, the only competitor who did. He earned $56,707 at the NFSR. Part of that check was $27,347 for winning the NFSR Average title, making a 10-run time of 131.0 seconds. He won the championship with total earnings of $129,834. His total earnings at the NFSR was $60,989, which was the most of all the competitors.

National events Event All-Around Team Roping Co-Champion Tie-Down Steer Roping Ref(s) Amarillo Tri-State Fair Pro Rodeo 2007 2006 Angelina Benefit Rodeo 2010 2010 Beef Empire Days PRCA Rodeo 2006, 2008 2006 Bell County PRCA Rodeo 2009 2006 2009 Black Gold Pro Rodeo 2008 Butterfield Stage Days Rodeo 2010 2009 2008, 2010 Caldwell Night Rodeo 2008, 2009 2008, 2009 Canby Rodeo 2008, 2009 2006 Clark County Fair & Rodeo 2006, 2010 2006, 2010 2006, 2009 Clovis Rodeo 2009 2007 Cody Stampede Rodeo 2009 Coleman PRCA Rodeo 2007 Colorado State Fair & Rodeo 2006, 2009 2006 Cowboy Capital of the World Pro Rodeo 2008, 2009 2009 2008 Daines Ranch Rodeo 2009 Days of '47 Rodeo 2006 Deadwood Days of '76 Rodeo 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 2008 2008 Dodge City Roundup Rodeo 2009 2009 Dodge Texas Circuit Finals Rodeo 2007 Eastland County ProRodeo 2009 2009 Ellensburg Rodeo 2006, 2009 Farm City Pro Rodeo 2009 2009 Fort Bend County & Rodeo 2009, 2010 2006 2010 Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo 2010 Fourth of July Youth Celebration and PRCA Pro Rodeo 2006 Glen Rose PRCA Rodeo 2008 2008 Grand National Rodeo 2007, 2008 2007 Greeley Stampede 2009 Guy Weadick Memorial Rodeo 2009 Guymon Pioneer Days Rodeo 2008 2010 Heartland ProRodeo Steer Roping Championships 2009 Horse Heaven Roundup 2008 2008 2006 Independence Stampede 2009 Inter-State Rodeo 2008 Jawhawker Roundup 2007 Justin Boots Championships 2009 Kansas' Biggest Rodeo 2009 2009 Kitsap Fair and Stampede 2009 2009 La Fiesta de los Vaqueros 2006, 2007, 2008 Laughlin River Stampede 2006 Lawton Rangers Rodeo 2008, 2009 2007 Lea County Fair & Rodeo 2006, 2008, 2009 Lewiston Round-Up 2006 2006 2006 2006, 2009 Livermore Rodeo 2009 Livingston Roundup 2008 Lonestar Stampede 2008 Magic Valley Stampede 2009 Matagorda Fair & Rodeo 2009 Molalla Buckeroo 2008 2009 Moses Lake Roundup 2006 National Western Stock Show 2010 2010 New Mexico State Fair Rodeo 2007 Northeast Texas Stampede PRCA Rodeo 2006 Oakdale Saddle Club Rodeo 2010 2010 2010 Ogden Pioneer Days Rodeo 2007, 2009 2009 Parker County Frontier Days Pro Rodeo 2006 2006 Pioneer Days Rodeo 2007 2007 2007 Rancho Mission Viejo Rodeo 2008 2008 Red Bluff Round-Up 2006 Redding Rodeo 2008 2008 Rodeo Austin 2006 Rodeo de Santa Fe 2009 Rodeo Houston 2006 Rodeo Killeen 2007 San Angelo Stock Show & Rodeo 2009 2007 San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo 2010 SandHills Stock Show & Rodeo 2008 Sikeston Jaycee Bootheel Rodeo 2007, 2009 Snake River Stampede 2007 2007, 2009 Sonora Outlaw Pro Rodeo 2007 2007 Southern Oklahoma Stampede PRCA Rodeo 2006 Southwestern International PRCA Rodeo 2009 St. Paul Rodeo 2008 2008 Star of Texas Fair & Rodeo 2008 Walker County Fair & Rodeo 2007, 2009, 2010 2006, 2008 West of the Texas Rodeo 2006 West of the Pecos Rodeo 2006, 2007 2006 Wild Bill Hickok Rodeo 2009 Wild Wild West Pro Rodeo 2009 2009 2009 2009 Will Rogers Stampede 2006, 2008, 2009 2008 2009 World's Oldest Rodeo 2006, 2009 2008 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo 2007 2007 2007 Wyoming State Fair & Rodeo 2006 YMBL Championship Rodeo 2008 2008 2008 2008

Honors 2002 Rodeo Hall of Fame of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum 2008 Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame 2012 Texas Trail of Fame 2012 Ellensburg Rodeo Hall of Fame 2016 Texas Sports Hall of Fame 2018 Cheyenne Frontier Days Hall of Fame 2018 PBR Ty Murray Top Hand Award 2019 Pendleton Round-Up and Happy Canyon Hall of Fame 2022 Texas Rodeo Cowboy Hall of Fame 2022 ProRodeo Hall of Fame 2024 Ben Johnson Memorial Award of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum

Personal life Brazile has been married since 2001 to Shada Cooper, the stepdaughter of ProRodeo Hall of Fame cowboy, Roy Cooper, who mentored Brazile early in his rodeo career. They live in Decatur, Texas, with their three children.

References

External links An interview with Trevor Brazile LEGEND: Horsemanship from Trevor Brazile and Patrick Smith