Mike Lee

2004 Season to date:

• Tie for Second place at the Worcester Classic, winning over $6,812 in prize money
  
• Tie for Second place in Phoenix earning $13,693 in prize money
  
• A thrid place finish in Tampa with $7,900 in earnings
  
• Forth place finish in Atlanta with $4,400 in prize money

  2003 Season:
  

• Event Champion Bally's Wild Wild West Classic in Atlantic City, NJ winning over $24,494
  
• A Fourth place finish at the Baltimore Invitational in Baltimore, MD winning over $5,710.40
  
• A Fourth place finish at the Atlanta Classic from Atlanta, GA winning over $5,877
  
• A Fourth place finish at the Minneapolis Invitational, Minneapolis, MN on winning $5,810
  
• A Fourth place finish at the Mohegan Sun Invitational on winning over $5,602

  Challenger Tour:
  

• A Fifth place finish at Fort Worth, TX March 7, 2003 winning over $831

  2002 Season
  Finished the 2002 season ranked #11, winning $111,258 in prize money.

• A Fourth place finish at the Laughlin Invitational in Laughlin, NV winning over $5,915.00
  
• A Fifth place finish at the BULLNANZA-Nashville in Nashville, TN winning over $4,062
  
• A Fifth place finish at the Raleigh-Durham Open in Raleigh, NC event winning over $5,606
  
• Top ten finish at the U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Co. Challenger Tour event in Del Rio,
  TX winning $1,746.
  
• A Fourth place finish at the Colorado Springs Invitational in Colorado Springs, CO winning
  over $6,750
  
• Event Champion at the Jacksonville Invitational in Jacksonville, FL winning over $28,200
  
• Fourth place finish at the U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Co. Challenger Tour event in Marshall,
  TX earning $1,825.
  
• Finished 5th at the Phoenix Open in Phoenix, AZ winning over $4,133
  
• Finished among the top ten in the average at the U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company
  Challenger Tour Finals held in January of 2002 winning $3,229.
  
• A Second place finish at the Challenger Tour event in Pueblo, CO winning $4,982.

  2001 PBR Highlights
  

• Event Champion at the Challenger Series event in Norco, CA winning over $7337.

Since a very young age Mike has been around livestock and has acquired a love for all animals.  He learned to ride a horse so young that it was as if he was born riding one.  This is really where Mike’s love for rodeo began.  He started out riding steers when he was ten and just moved up the ranks.  Peewee bulls, junior bulls, and then senior bulls.  When Mike was fourteen he started to attend “open” bull ridings and won his first Open Bull Riding Championship when that same year.   High school rodeo competition was the logical next step and Mike qualified for the National High School Rodeo Finals two years.  Mike's outstanding accomplishments in rodeo earned him several offers from college rodeo teams.  Mike opted instead to turn professional as soon as he turned eighteen.

Two weeks after Mike turned eighteen he received his permit, and filled it with his first show.  He won Norco, California a Professional Bull Riders (PBR) Challenger Tour in June.  Through the rest of that PBR season Mike placed at a number of events, and ended up the year in fifty-eighth place.  The following year (2002) he qualified to for the to the PBR Cup Tour in March.  Mike qualified for his first PBR World Finals in 2002 and was the runner-up Rookie of the year. 

Mike also filled his Pro Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) permit soon after he purchased it after his eighteenth birthday.  It hard been hard to juggle both the PBR and PRCA.   Mike has continued as a member of the PBR Cup Tour and has been limited to the  PRCA shows he could attend this year.  It was at the PRCA rodeo in Fort Smith, Arkansas, on May 29th that Mike received a skull fracture as a result of a head to head collision with a bull.  Mike underwent emergency surgery  following the accident to remove a blood clot. Mike who always wears a helmet when he rides believes his helmet saved his life and prevented an even more serious injury.   When the accident occurred Mike was in third place in the PBR Cup race.  It wasn't until August 29th Mike was able to returned to the arena.   If anyone had wondered whether he was ready he put all doubts to rest immediately.   Mike won his first event out, the Belton, Texas, Humps-n-Horns event.  If there were any doubters left he won the Atlantic City BFTS event.  Mike went into the 2003 Finals sitting in 6th place.  Not bad for someone who was sidelined for three months.

Mike was not really happy with the 2003 Finals.  He drew four real good bulls and was 1 for four.  As the season came to a close Mike was in 6th place in the BFTS and in 16th for total money won in the PBR in 2003 with a winnings total of $93,569.18.  

Mike is a very dedicated person not only to rodeo, but also in life in general.  As fellow bull rider Lee Akin stated in an interview with Pro Bull Rider "That dude, in the short time that I've known him, is one of the most focused individuals I've ever met.  It seems like he has this innate sense about his ability, and he has a terrific work ethic.  He tries his guts out every time."  He is an animal lover and appreciates a good bucking bull, or horse.  He is interested in all aspects of the bucking bull and rodeo industries.  Mike is a dedicated Christian Cowboy and lives his life for God.You can search for Rodeo Tickets on this page. You can search by Rodeo such as PBR Tickets or NFR Tickets or by Venue such as Thomas and Mack. All PBR Tickets and NFR Tickets are 200% guaranteed as well as all Rodeo Tickets. We purchase NFR Tickets and PBR Tickets .