The 2025 ProRodeo season has reached a boil with San Antonio finishing up its second of three weekends, a Playoff Series Rodeo concluding in Mississippi while one begins in Arizona, and multiple Xtreme Bulls events shaking up the World Standings.

Dustin Egusquiza/Levi Lord have continued showcase blazing speed in the team roping while Shad Mayfield is once again making the Texas Swing his personal playground. Andrea Busby and Sophie Palmore shattered barrel racing expectations in San Antone, while on the roughstock end of the arena, TJ Gray, Dean Thompson and Dawson Hay’s hot starts have continued.

Dustin Egusquiza/Levi Lord swept the bracket in team roping and did so with a 3.5-second run in Round 1 and 3.6 in Round 2. This pair is arguably the fastest in ProRodeo and the stats on 3.7 Second or Faster Runs over the last few years back that up. They now have the two fastest times in San Antonio in 2025. They won this rodeo with just three timely qualified runs of 3.7, 3.5 and 4.1.

After winning Fort Worth, World No. 1 tie-down roper Shad Mayfield advanced out of this bracket with round-winning times of 7.7 and 7.1 seconds. Mayfield is shaping up to have another huge winter. Four of his last five Texas Swing runs have been 8.4 or faster and dating back to 2024, he seven of his last eight runs in San Antonio have been 8 flat or faster. He won this rodeo last year.

TJ Gray, who entered the NFR No. 1 in 2024, regained the top spot in the PRCA World Standings after winning the Cinch World’s Toughest Rodeo in Columbus. It was Gray’s highest marked ride of the season, 88 points on Badlands, that won him over $7,000 in Ohio. He also added a third place finish in Los Fresnos, Texas last weekend and all of this came on the heels of a Finals appearance in Fort Worth.

No barrel racer had been faster than 13.90 through the first three brackets in San Antonio. All three round winning times were faster than that in Bracket 4. Sophie Palmore did it twice (13.80 and 13.87) and Andrea Busby once (13.89). The two took very different paths to get to San Antone – Palmore advanced through a qualifier while Busby was the 2024 NFR Average Champion.

Saddle bronc rider Dawson Hay now has 11 qualified rides this season and 10 have been 86 points or better. No one rides the rank ones like Dawson Hay and that continued over the weekend in San Antonio when he rode Exciting Bubbles for 87, Dirty Lizard for 86 and Painted Commotion for 88 total $6,800 and win Bracket 4. Hay is averaging 87.3 points this season and is No. 4 in the PRCA World Standings.

Tristan Mize rode all three of his bulls in Bracket, making him the third cowboy to start 3-for-3. Mize joined Stetson Wright and Mason Moody in the perfect club so far in San Antonio and thanks to more ground money, he tallied more money than both of them with $11,905. He also made the Finals of the San Antonio Xtreme Bulls on Sunday night. He is 12-of-27 on the season, but 5-for-7 in February.

Steer wrestler Riley Duvall made runs of 3.6 and 4.0 seconds to win the Dixie National. The Oklahoma native won the Mississippi rodeo by six tenths of a second over a Top 5 that included 2024 NFR qualifiers Stetson Jorgensen, Will Lummus and Cash Robb. Duvall entered the weekend No. 23, but will likely move into the Top 10 in the World Standings.

Richie Champion made three straight rides of 83.5 or better to finish Top 2 in every round of Bracket 3’s bareback riding – The veteran bareback rider won over $6,300 and out dueled the likes of Dean Thompson, Mason Clements, Tilden Hooper, Kade Sonnier and Jacek Frost. He has made the Semifinals every year he has competed in San Antonio since 2019.

Bareback rider Dean Thompson won the Cinch World’s Toughest and tied for third at the Dixie National to win about $8,000 over the weekend. The win in Columbus was Thompson’s first win toward the 2025 World Standings since Oct. 12, but don’t get it twisted, the reigning World Champion has still been terrific. Of his 22 qualified rides this season, 20 have been in the 80s and since the beginning of Fort Worth, he has six rides of 85 Points or More. Thompson entered the weekend No. 6 in the World.

Bull rider Trey Benton III now has eight qualified rides this season and five of them have been 85 points or better. TBIII delivered the best ride of the bunch over the weekend at the Bright Field Days Festival Xtreme Bulls (Florida) with 88 points to win the event and collect almost $13,000. It moved him from No. 15 to No. 6 in the World and snapped a streak of five straight buck-offs.

Saddle bronc rider Ben Andersen won the Dixie National Rodeo for the second time in the last three years. Andersen had only won about $4,000 on the year entering the weekend and more than doubled it thanks to his 87.5-point ride on Korkow Rodeo’s Acapulco Relish holding up for the win