JC Yeahquo teamed up with Buddy Hawkins for the first time in 2024 and turned it into his first NFR appearance. Yeahquo will enter the NFR in the No. 8 spot on the Head side thanks to a season in which he earned over $126,000.
Here is a look at Yeahquo’s best showings and highest paydays of the 2024 regular season.
RodeoHouston $53,625
Teaming up with new partner Buddy Hawkins, the duo quickly showed they were the real deal, claiming a win in Houston. After finishing third in Super Series IV, they were the fourth and final team to qualify for Semifinal 2.
On Championship Sunday, they brought their A-game. A 6.2-second run put them second in the Championship Round, followed by a 4.8-second run—their fastest of the rodeo—which earned them the Shootout victory by four-tenths of a second.
St. Paul Rodeo, $7,828
Yeahquo and Hawkins’ best Cowboy Christmas finish was in St. Paul, where they were 5.4 and 5.0 seconds to be seventh in Round 2 and fourth in Round 1. As is often the case, though, their average score was greater than the sum of its parts and their two-head time of 10.4 seconds was good enough for third and $4,955.
The success there, as well as a third-place finish at the Western Stampede, helped soften the blow of six no times over the Fourth of July.
Snake River Stampede, $6,243
Just two weeks after St. Paul, Yeahquo and Hawkins took a different approach to the average game in Nampa, Idaho. They posted a 3.9-second run to win Round 1, then followed up with a 4.5 in Round 2. Despite a 10.6 in the Finals, they still finished sixth in the Average.
Sheridan County Fair and Rodeo, $2,254
The win on July 27 in Gordon, Nebraska was the pair’s lone triumph that month and it came courtesy of a 5.4-second to win the one-header by one-tenth. It would prove to be their second-to-last win of the season, with the final one coming in their last rodeo of the season in Decatur, Texas on Sept. 28.
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