Mike Beers, Professional Cowboy, World champion Team Roper
Mike Beers started
roping as a child, competing as a youngster at Junior rodeos and
then on into high school rodeo where he was an Oregon Champion then
moving up to college were he was a National College Rodeo Champion,
afterwards moving right along to the PRCA were he holds 30 Circuit
Championship titles as well as 1984 NFR World Champion Team Roping
Heeler.
Continuously
throughout Mike’s career he has won events and set records. In 1983
he set the Team Roping Fast time record of 3.7 with Dee Pickett at
Abilene, Texas. After winning 3 legs of the award, Mike retired the
Let’er Buck Trophy from the Pendleton round in 1997. The Bob Feist
Invitational team roping marked its 30th anniversary in
2008. Mike is one of 4 people in the “BFI 30 club”, as he has
competed in all 30 events. He is currently entered in the 2009
Event.
Mike is also a Team
Roping Instructor. Since his first school in 1972 with Tommy Norton,
Mike has been teaching people how to capture within themselves the
roping techniques it take to become a winner. Being a World
Champion, 24 time NFR competitor and 30 Time Columbia Circuit Finals
Champion qualifies Mike to be an instructor; his patience,
understanding and articulate mannerisms are what set him apart from
other instructors. Starting from the ground up, Mike has the ability
to teach basic roping fundamentals, moving the students up to moving
objects such as the Heel-O-Matic, and then on to live steers. Every
Student that has attended a Mike Beers Roping School is a winner.
They have “experienced the difference” and have learned those skills
that allow them to “practice perfect”.
In his spare time Mike
enjoys hunting and fishing. The friends that Mike has met across the
United States and Canada has offered him opportunity to fish many
“special fishing holes” that he holds dear to his heart. Meeting new
people and making new friends is one of the “perk” of the rodeo
life.
Mike has two sons,
Brandon who Mike has partnered with and Joe who is an accomplished
USTRC heeler.
2008
Highlights –
Partner Brandon Beers
• Set Arena record at
Canadian Finals Rodeo 3.7 (Edmonton, Alberta) Ties Canadian
Fast-time record
• Won the Bonus
Round at the Ponoka (Alberta) Stampede
• Co-champion at the
Mountain Valley Stampede (Heber City, Utah)
2007 -
(Partner Brandon Beers) Became the first father-son combination to
qualify for the Wrangler
Nationals Finals Rodeo in 20 years and the 11th all time .
Won:
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RodeoHouston
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Falkland (B.C.) Stampede
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Te Luxton Pro Rodeo
(Victoria, B.C.)
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Sisters (Ore.) Rodeo
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Ponoka (Alberta) Stampede
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Cheney (Wash) Rodeo
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Fort Dalles Pro Rodeo (The Dalles,
Ore.)
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Qualified for Dodge Columbia
River Circuit Finals Rodeo (Redmond, Ore.)
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Suffered broken pelvis and
shoulder during a practice session July 31, 2007 in Culver, OR and
missed four months of competition, before returning for the Wrangler
NFR…
2006
– Won
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Hanna (Alberta) Pro Rodeo
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North Idaho Fair & Rodeo
(Coeur d’Alene)
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Omak (Wash.) Stampede
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Eugene (Ore.) Pro Rodeo
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Wainwright (Alberta)
Stampede
2005 –
Won
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Yakima Valley Fair & Rodeo (Grandview,
Wash.) with Brandon Beers
2004 – Won
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Steer roping title at the
Pendleton (Ore.) Round-Up
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Year-end team roping title
in the Columbia River Circuit (with Charly Crawford).
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Finished 29th in the in the
team roping with $25,421 and 30th in the steer roping with $9,753
2003 – Won
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San Antonio (Texas)
Livestock Exposition with partner Jason Stewart
2002 – Won
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Days of '47 Rodeo (Salt Lake
City) with Shain Sproul
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Farm-City Pro Rodeo
(Hermiston, Ore.)
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Finished seventh in the
world team roping heeling, 11th in the all-around and 43rd in steer
roping
2001 –
Won
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American Royal Rodeo (Kansas
City, Mo.) with Bobby Hurley)
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Eugene (Ore.) Pro Rodeo
2000 – Won
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Days of '47 Rodeo (Salt Lake
City) with Tee Woolman
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Dodge City (Kan.) Round-Up
1987
- Won
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Bob Feist Invitational Team
Roping Champion
1986 -
Won
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Wrangler Timed Event
Champion
1984
- Won
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World Championship with Dee
Pickett, earning $57,557
1983-
Won
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Set 3.7 PRCA Fast-time
Record Team Roping with Dee Pickett (Abilene, TX)
Columbia River Circuit (30 Championships)
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All-Around Champion in 1981,
1985, 1987-88, 1991-95, 1997, 1999 2002;
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Team Roping Champion in
1981, 1983,1985, 1988, 1991-92, 2002, 2004;
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Tie-down Roping Champion in
1981, 1995;
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Steer Roping Champion in
1986, 1988, 1991, 1994, 1996-98, 2002
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Amateur
College National Finals Rodeo
Team Roping Champion, 1978.
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Oregon High School
All-Around and Team Roping Champion, 1977
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