6/7/2023 0 Comments Smarty steerRelationships are key, and I’ve been fortunate to meet and become friends with so many great ropers.” Jaxson Tucker – Smarty I could’ve been rodeoing more myself, but it’s been more beneficial to me having the opportunity to travel with these guys. Seeing how they handle winning and losing really humbles you as a person because you want to be like that. I learn so much just listening to them talk and enter rodeos while they’re driving, because entering right is the key to rodeoing now. “Traveling with the pros has pieced me together more as a person than anything. He has won the Biggest East of the Mississippi roping the past two years, and won at the Perry Bigbee Memorial Roping recently. The past two years I traveled with Kaleb Driggers, Brandon Webb, and Kolin Von Ahn and before that I traveled with Luke Brown.” Jaxson has acquired a multitude of titles as a header, including winning the #15 at the USTRC South Georgia Championships two consecutive years, also winning the Open roping with Ty Etheridge there last year. “I was traveling back and forth to Texas, so it really was impossible to keep up with a rodeo schedule myself. Jaxson has competed at multiple USTRC and open ropings across the country and traveled with several professional ropers following PRCA circuits. “In seventh-grade I went to Georgia so that I could head for Braxton Culpepper but came back to North Carolina to heel for my cousin, Cole Futrell, in eighth-grade.” While heading for Braxton at the 2015 NJHSFR, the team finished in the top 10 after winning the second round as well as the short round. He was the 2014 NCHSRA All-Around Champion Cowboy, winning team roping, breakaway roping and goat tying. I was fortunate to have my dad teaching me, and to be around great ropers like Luke Brown, Brad Culpepper, Caleb Anderson, and Cory Kidd when I started roping steers.”Īt 10, Jaxson began entering Junior Southern Rodeo Association rodeos, and competed in the North Carolina and Georgia Junior High School Rodeo Associations in middle school. “I’ve roped for as long as I can remember, always roping the dummy or the sled, and we roped a lot in Texas. Jason taught Jaxson how to rope and brought him along as he competed. Jaxson’s father, Jason Tucker, is the general manager for Smarty, and competed for several years as a professional team roper. Jaxson has been fortunate to have connections in the rodeo world that have developed into relationships allowing him to live his dream traveling and roping with some of the top ropers in the world. Ulla, North Carolina is home to 17-year-old, Smarty Young Pro, Jaxson Tucker, but more often than not you’ll find him on the professional rodeo trail. Jaxson Tucker at the 2017 USTRC Finals - < Back to Articles
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