Charly Crawford has qualified for nine National Finals Rodeos, starting with his first in 2005. But since his last trip to the Finals in 2017 (with heeling phenom Joseph Harrison), Crawford’s been relatively quiet on the rodeo road. In 2018, he finished 31st in the world standings and, in 2019, he was 33rd .
But in 2020, Crawford is on a mission. A father to 3-year-old Creed and 16-year-old Kaydence, Crawford is looking toward a future after rodeo. He said early in the season that 2020 would be a final push, a chance to prove to himself that he could, in fact, still make the Finals.
The result? With few rodeos left on the schedule, Crawford and his partner—two-time College National Finals Champion Logan Medlin—are well inside the top 15…