ROCK SPRINGS — The Women’s Professional Rodeo Association’s (WPRA) Chief Operating Officer Janet Cropper has contacted the Sweetwater Events Complex about bidding to host the World Finals beginning in 2016 through 2020.

The WPRA is the oldest women’s sporting association in the United States and has developed professional women in rodeo for the last sixty-six years.  According to Cropper, “WPRA members represent the elite in professional barrel racing and the pipeline to qualifying to the National Finals Rodeo.”

At the World Finals, the WPRA crowns World Champions in roping-tie down, team roping and breakaway roping. Since 2007 the WPRA also crowns a WPRA Junior World Champion Barrel Racer through its juniors division, along with crowns for World Champions in the for Futurity and Derby divisions. The World finals will also include barrel racing for members and open jackpots for non-member competitors.

Sweetwater Events Complex staff will be looking at the request for proposal to see if the complex can accommodate the WPRA World Finals and will be in discussion with the WPRA about the upcoming event. In 2014, the World Finals was hosted in Waco, Texas.