Career earnings: $2,543,536
2021 world standings place: 69th
2021 earnings: $14,931
Education: Vernon (Texas) College
Wrangler NFR average titles: 1 (1997)
Wrangler NFR Qualifications: 22 (1992-07, 2010-12, 2015, 2017-18)
Tour Finale titles: 1 (Summer: 2005)
Professional
Career Highlights
• 2021: Won the Santa Rosa Roundup (Vernon, Texas), with Manny Egusquiza Jr.
• 2020: Finished 157th in the world standings with $2,543
• 2019: (Partner Dustin Egusquiza) Finished 38th in the world standings with $37,084. Won the Sandhills Stock Show & Rodeo (Odessa, Texas) and the Fort Bend County Fair & Rodeo (Rosenberg, Texas)
• 2018: (Partner Dustin Egusquiza) Finished ninth in the world standings with $145,518. Placed 13th in the average at the Wrangler NFR, earning $39,121. Placed in two rounds. Won the Horse Heaven (Kennewick (Wash.) Round-Up, the Pasadena (Texas) Livestock Show & Rodeo, the Livingston (Mont.) Roundup, the Ogden (Utah) Pioneer Days, the Black Hills Roundup (Belle Fourche, S.D.), the Oakley Independence Day Rodeo (Oakley City, Utah), the Bell County PRCA Rodeo (Belton, Texas), the Gladewater (Texas) Round-Up Rodeo and the Silver State Stampede (Elko, Nev.). Co-champion at the Dinosaur Roundup Rodeo (Vernal, Utah), the Walker County Fair & Rodeo (Huntsville, Texas) and the Matagorda County Fair & Rodeo (Bay City, Texas)
• 2017: (Partner Dustin Egusquiza) Finished eighth in the world standings with $179,421. Placed eighth at the Wrangler NFR with $104,769. Placed in five rounds. Won Round 7 and split the win in Round 4. Won the the National Western Stock Show and Rodeo (Denver), the Horse Heaven Round-Up (Kennewick, Wash.), the Strawberry Days Rodeo (Pleasant Grove, Utah), the Clark County Fair & Rodeo (Logandale, Nev.), the Jayhawker Roundup Rodeo (Hill City, Kan.) and the Mesquite (Texas) ProRodeo Series, Sept. 23
• 2016: (Partner Colby Lovell) Finished 22nd in the world standings with $47,632. Won the Cody (Wyo.) Stampede Champions Challenge presenteds by Justin Boots. Co-champion at the Wranglers Champions Challenge presented by Justin Boots (Scottsdale, Ariz.)
• 2015: (Partner Colby Lovell) Placed in six rounds at the Wrangler NFR. Won the Justin Boots Championships (Omaha, Neb.), the Kitsap Stampede (Bremerton, Wash.), the Lewiston (Idaho) Roundup, the Wild Bill Hickok Rodeo (Abilene, Kan.), the Spring Classic (Mesquite, Texas), the Jayhawker Roundup Rodeo (Hill City, Kan.) and the XIT Rodeo & Reunion (Dalhart, Texas). Co-champion at the Justin Boots Playoffs (Puyallup, Wash.). Finished seventh in the world standings with $$187,891
• 2014: (Partner Chad Masters) Won the Guadalupe County Fair & PRCA Rodeo (Seguin, Texas); the Gladewater (Texas) Round-Up Rodeo, with David Key and the North Texas State Fair & Rodeo (Denton, Texas), with David Key. Co-champion at the Wrangler Champions Challenge (Rapid City, S.D.) with Colby Lovell and the Texas Stampede (Allen). Finished 31st in the world standings with $38,177
• 2013: (Partner Brock Hanson) Won the Fort Worth (Texas) Stock Show & Rodeo and the Beef Empire Days PRCA Rodeo (Garden City, Kan.). Co-champion at the Texas Stampede Rodeo (Allen, Texas), with Justin Van Davis. Finished 21st in the world standings with $48,604
• 2012: (Partner Erich Rogers) Won Round 3 and placed in six other rounds of the Wrangler NFR to finish third in the average and jump from 12th to fifth place in the final world standings; earned an event-best $91,875. Won the Lea County Fair & PRCA Rodeo (Lovington, N.M.); La Fiesta de los Vaqueros (Tucson, Ariz.); the Fort Worth (Texas) Stock Show & Rodeo; the Pioneer Days Rodeo (Clovis, N.M.) and the Cassia County Fair & Rodeo (Burley, Idaho). Finished fifth in the world standings with $161,128
• 2011: (Partner Erich Rogers) Won Round 7 of the Wrangler NFR and placed in three other rounds. Won the Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo (Colorado Springs, Colo.) and La Fiesta de los Vaqueros (Tucson). Finished seventh in the world standings with $135,070
• 2010: (Partner Colby Lovell) Won Round 1 of the Wrangler NFR with a time of 4.1 seconds. Finished 14th in the world standings with $87,979. Won the Reno (Nev.) Rodeo for the third time in his career; the Nacogdoches (Texas) Pro Rodeo; the Colorado State Fair & Rodeo (Pueblo); the Cowboy Capital of the World PRCA Rodeo (Stephenville, Texas); the XIT Rodeo & Reunion (Dalhart, Texas) and the Molalla (Ore.) Buckeroo Rodeo; co-champion of the Jayhawker Roundup Rodeo (Hill City, Kan.)
• 2009: (Partner Keven Daniel) Won the West of the Pecos Rodeo (Pecos, Texas); the Deadwood (S.D.) Days of ’76 Rodeo; the Laramie (Wyo.) Jubilee Days; the Spokane (Wash.) County Interstate Rodeo; the Canby (Ore.) Rodeo and the Old Chisholm Days ProRodeo (Roswell, N.M.). Finished 17th in the world standings with earnings of $50,615
• 2008: (Partner David Key) Won the San Angelo (Texas) Rodeo and the Heart O’ Texas Fair & Rodeo (Waco). Finished 19th in the world standings with $48,711
• 2007: (Partner David Key) Won Rounds 7 and 10 at the Wrangler NFR and placed eighth in the average. Won the Grand National Rodeo (San Francisco); the Clovis (Calif.) Rodeo; the XIT Rodeo and Reunion (Dalhart, Texas); co-champion at the Norco (Calif.) Mounted Posse Rodeo. Finished the year sixth in the world standings with earnings of $131,931
• 2006: (Partner David Key) Placed in five of 10 rounds at the Wrangler NFR, sharing the win in the ninth round to end the year third in the world standings with $145,963. Finished third at the Winter Tour Finale (Tulsa, Okla.). Won the Wrangler ProRodeo Tour Round and average titles at the Guymon (Okla.) Pioneer Days Rodeo and at the Laughlin (Nev.) River Stampede. Won the Wrangler ProRodeo Tour Round at the Red Bluff (Calif.) Round-Up and the SandHills Stock Show and Rodeo (Odessa, Texas). Won the Fourth of July Youth Celebration and PRCA Pro Rodeo (Window Rock, Ariz.); the World’s Oldest Rodeo (Prescott, Ariz.) and the Coleman (Texas) PRCA Rodeo. Co-champion at the Cowboy Capital of the World Pro Rodeo (Stephenville, Texas) and the Guadalupe County PRCA Rodeo (Seguin, Texas)
• 2005: Partner Jake Barnes suffered a right thumb amputation in the fifth round of the Wrangler NFR. Koontz finished the last five rounds with Trevor Brazile and rebounded to win the sixth round and tie the then arena record of 3.7 seconds and sharing the victory in round eight with a 3.8-second run. He finished the year ranked third in the world with $142.237. Won the Summer Tour Finale (Omaha, Neb.); the Dodge City (Kan.) Roundup Rodeo and California Rodeo Salinas; co-champion at the Ellensburg (Wash.) Rodeo. Won the Wrangler ProRodeo Tour Round at the Guymon (Okla.) Pioneer Days Rodeo
• 2004: (Partner Matt Tyler) Finished 12th in the world standings with $78,629 and was seventh in the Wrangler NFR average, picking up $27,410. Co-champion at La Fiesta de los Vaqueros (Tucson, Ariz.); won the Tour Round at Clovis (Calif.) Rodeo; won the Mineral Wells (Texas) PRCA Rodeo and the Grand National (San Francisco); was a semifinalist at Winter Tour Finale (Las Vegas). Won the Pioneer Days Rodeo (Clovis, N.M.) with Steve Purcella; placed in three rounds at the Wrangler NFR winning Round 4 with a time of 4.5 seconds; and won the year-end title in the Texas Circuit, with Steve Purcella
• 2003: (Partner Daniel Green) Won the Southwestern Livestock Show and Rodeo (El Paso, Texas) and the Red Bluff (Calif.) Round-Up. Won Round 3 of the Wrangler NFR with a 3.8-second run to equal the arena record and tied for first in Rounds 2, 7 and 8. Finished the year eighth in the world standings with $98,073
• 2002: Finished 12th in the team roping heeler standings with $88,316. Won the Reno (Nev.) Rodeo, with Daniel Green
• 2001: (Partner Steve Purcella) Won RodeoHouston and the Deadwood (S.D.) Days of ‘76 Rodeo; co-champion at the Cowboy Capital of the World Rodeo (Stephenville, Texas)
• 2000: (Partner Steve Purcella) Won the Pine Country Pro Rodeo (Flagstaff, Ariz.) and the Cowboy Capital of the World Rodeo (Stephenville, Texas)
• 1999: (Partner Mike Cervi Jr.) Won the Clovis (Calif.) Rodeo
• 1998: (Partner Bret Boatright) Won La Fiesta de los Vaqueros (Tucson, Ariz.)
• 1997: (Partner Bret Boatright) Won the NFR team roping average title with a time of 83.0 seconds on 10 head; finished second in the world standings with $80,923
• 1996: (Partner Matt Tyler) Won RodeoHouston and the Reno (Nev.) Rodeo
• Won the Dodge Texas Circuit Finals Rodeo team roping title, with Denton Payne in1994 and with Matt Tyler in 1995
Awards
Owner of the late 1992-93, 1996 AQHA Heeling Horse of the Year, Flit’s Smokin’ Dream “Iceman”
Personal
6-1, 175 … Son, Jae; daughters, Harlee and Ashlee … Hobbies include golf … Has diabetes and wears an insulin monitor…He was featured in Diabetes Forecast magazine … Graduated from Amherst (Texas) High School with six people … Enjoys watching the Dallas Cowboys … Rodeo idol is Clay O’Brien Cooper
NFR Qualifications: 24
NFR Average Champion: in 1997
Texas Circuit Finals Qual. : 25
DNCFR Quali.: 2
Bigger rodeo’s won Reno, NV – 3 times, Houston Tx – 3 times, Denver CO – 2 times
San Angelo TX, Tucson AZ, Fort Worth TX – 2 times
