San Antonio and some impressive swing out to the Southeast defined the most recent weekend of ProRodeo action as the second stop on the Texas Swing crowned champions, and delivered results that have not happened for some time.

San Antonio delivered shocks and shake-ups as unexpected winners took center stage. Bradlee Miller and Aspen Miller claimed victories without winning the Short Round, while Brandon Harrison surged from qualifier to champion in the steer wrestling. Four event winners now lead the PRCA World Standings, and standout rides from Dawson Hay and Stetson Wright added more intuige.

Meanwhile, Kyle Lucas, Will Lummus, and Waylon Bourgeois were able to cash in places like Tucson, Arizona and Kissimmee, Florida.

For the first time since 2018, an athlete who did not win the Short Round in San Antonio. And it happened twice. Bradlee Miller won the bareback riding despite finishing second to Sage Allen’s 90-point ride in the Short Round because he entered the Finals with $12,080 and Allen had $6,565. San Antonio is won on total money and when it was all counted, Miller had $22,584 to Allen’s $21,755. It also happened in the breakaway roping with Aspen Miller, and we will have more on her impressive performance a little later on.

Four San Antonio Champions are now No. 1 in the PRCA World Standings. One of them is the aforementioned Miller, who now leads Nick Pelke by over $16,000. The others are Dustin Egusquiza, Levi Lord, and Stetson Wright, but it may not end there as things still need to be updated in the WPRA World Standings.

Steer wrestler Brandon Harrison made it into the field in San Antonio through a qualifier and went on to win the rodeo. Harrison is a 35-year-old who rodeos part-time in mostly Texas and Oklahoma, but that may change after he moved to No. 3 in the World Standings by besting Will Lummus and Tyler Waguespack in the Finals with a 4.3-second run. He also made the fastest run of the rodeo, a 3.4, in his bracket.

Five saddle bronc riders have already made over $48,000 this season. Kade Bruno ($68,754), Dawson Hay ($64,502), Ryder Wright ($55,572), Sage Newman ($53,753), and Statler Wright ($48,095) all made the NFR in 2024. For comparison, Ryder Wright was No. 1 in the World at this time last year with just over $49,000.

Kyle Lucas moved to No. 2 in the PRCA Tie-Down Roping World Standings by making the Finals in San Antonio and winning Tucson. Lucas has roped well at every PRCA Playoff Series rodeo of late. He made the Finals at the National Western and Fort Worth, where he finished second, then finished sixth in San Antonio and won La Fiesta De Los Vaqueros on Sunday, which paid him $12,170 total.

Dawson Hay has made 13 straight rides of 84 points or better to begin the season and is averaging 87.4 points per ride. The five-time NFR qualifier won San Antonio over the weekend with a 90-point ride on Yippee Kibitz in the Finals. He made five rides of 85.5 points or better in San Antonio and he currently sits No. 2 in the World Standings, about $4,000 behind Fort Worth champion Kade Bruno.

Aspen Miller won the breakaway roping in San Antonio with five straight runs of 2.1 seconds or faster. Miller put on a clinic from start to finish in San Antone with her fastest time being a 1.7. She never finished worse than third in a round and won the rodeo with $22,584.

Steer wrestler Will Lummus is now No. 2 in the World after finishing second in San Antonio and winning the Silver Spurs Rodeo in Kissimmee, Florida. If Lummus goes to small-to-midsize rodeo in the Southeast, he is coming to win. He was 3.9 in Hattiesburg, Mississippi a few weeks ago to go along with his 3.6 in Florida over the weekend. Since 2023, he has won Kissimmee twice, Crossett, Arkansas, Fort Smith, Arkansas, the Southeastern Circuit Finals, Laurel, Mississippi, West Monroe, Louisiana, and Montgomery, Alabama.

Stetson Wright has started the season 10-of-11 in the bull riding. The most recent one was the best, 91.5 on Ringling Road, the same bull he rode for 89 points earlier in the rodeo. Wright is already No. 1 in the World Standings thanks to eight checks of $2,500 or better already. He is averaging 85.9 points.

Megan McLeod-Sprague won San Antonio with the fastest run of the rodeo in the Short Go. McLeod-Sprague got the biggest win of her career and needed every single second to do it. She was 13.74 in the Finals while reigning World Champion was 13.75. McLeod-Sprague also won her Semifinal with a 13.83-second run.

Dustin Egusquiza/Levi Lord won San Antonio for the second time in three years. They were 4.1 in the Finals this year, just like in 2023, but that was actually their third fastest run of the rodeo. They also made runs of 3.5 and 3.6 seconds in their bracket. They also won Round 1 of La Fiesta De Los Vaqueros as well.

Bareback rider Waylon Bourgeois on two rodeos in the Southeast over the weekend. The two biggest rodeos over the weekend were San Antonio and Tucson, but Bourgeois won the biggest after that in Kissimmee, Florida and Perry, Georgia. He was 85 to win $4,970 in Florida and 84.5 to win $2,809 in Georgia. He is No. 7 in the World Standings.