CANADIAN NATIONAL FINALS RODEO FINAL RESULTS
March 30 , 2009

It was a weekend chock full of high-octane performances at the Canadian National Finals Rodeo (CNCFR) at Northlands AgriCom, with University of Alberta student Clay Creasy claiming the saddle bronc title for the fourth consecutive year.

“I guess you always hope,” Creasy said of hanging on to the championship. “Just like anything, it’s never a given, but you always go in hoping so.”

Creasy, who is balancing his budding rodeo career with his pursuit of becoming a teacher, hails from Brownfield, Alta. and is already a familiar face in the Pro Rodeo circuit. He’s already competed at Lethbridge and Camrose this season and, even though he didn’t ride so well at the two Alberta-based spring rodeos, he’s planning on changing that.

“We’ll get ’er figured,” he said. “Just stay on. Ride as good as I can. I got Medicine Hat and Dawson Creek just a couple weeks from here. That’s the next ones I’ve got and hopefully they go good.”

But for this week, he’s just glad the CNCFR is starting to get a little more recognition.

“Friday was – I think it was better than it was last year,” he recalled of last weekend’s finals. “Saturday was definitely pretty full. I think it’s starting to gain a little ground.”

Creasy also competed in the tie-down roping, but that championship title went to Lakeland College student Glen Allan Nash, who also claimed the steer wrestling title.

Creasy also stepped up when a girl competing in the team roping competition was injured, filling in for her on Saturday and Sunday, and helping fellow cowboy Garnett Marshall win that event’s title.

Casey Crandall emerged the Girls’ All-Around Champion at the end of the three-day rodeo. The Ponoka, Alta. cowgirl – who just took out her semi-pro card for the 2009 season – also wove a fast track to the championship titles in both barrel racing and pole bending, the second year in a row the 23-year-old has conquered these events with her sorrel mare Pistol.

Scot Sigfussion roped in the Boy’s All-Around Champion title after collecting points in the steer wrestling, tie-down roping and team roping.

AJ Hop took home the bull riding title, while Lakeland College’s Becky Kendal took the goat tying with consistent times of 9.1, 10.3 and 9.7 seconds, and Brittany Schuck won the breakaway roping title with times of 6.4, 4.2 and 4.9 seconds.