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Show Top cowboy to compete in Roundup Lewis Field a 28-year-old cowboy from Elk Ridge, Utah will be a top 1 contender to watch this year at the : Lehi Round-up. Currently he is ranked sixth in the orld standings in the bareback wonc riding and 12th in the saddle wonc riding. Very few cowboys today compete in more than one event and generally the ones that do, compete in timed events. Lewis sometimes works three events, two of the three being rough stock events and the third, team ) P'ng is a timed event. Lewis said, 1 ve always won and I've always (tone well . . . maybe I just try harder". . . "i'm aggressive - I always try to be real aggressive, rhat's something you can't have too much of, especially in the bareback riding." Born in Salt Lake City, he attended at-tended college at the Utah technical Institute in Provo and the Weber State College in Ogden. He . has a wife Veronica and son anadrck Roundy who often travel with him and are a big support in wv.UStle'bustle world of pro rodeo-When rodeo-When he is not rodeoing he makes xtra money by being a carpenter a"d spends his leisure time fishing and hunting. He joined the PRCA in 1980 and "as since then won the Linderman Award in 1981 was the Cheyenne All rund Champion in 1982, PRCA ?areback rookie of the year in 1980. tht I983 year end summary shows "iat he was 10th in the world in the ?areback riding. won 6th at the national Finals Rodeo and had a tal years earnings of over $56,000. |