Clint Summers and Jade Corkill won the team roping title at The American Rodeo Championship Weekend, finishing the Championship Round in 4.83 seconds to claim the $100,000 prize on May 23, 2026.
The win came after a semifinal night on May 22 at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas, when 15 qualifier teams roped and the top five advanced to Saturday’s Showdown Round to face five teams invited from the 2025 world standings. The field was cut to a final four, and those four roped for The American title and the seven-figure payday tied to the championship purse.
For readers searching who won the american rodeo 2026, Summers and Corkill were the first-time The American Rodeo Champions in team roping, posting the fastest time in the Championship Round and emerging from the weekend’s multi-stage format that began with regional qualifiers and moved to the Arena in Texas.
The weekend produced other big results: Rocker Steiner won the bareback riding title with a 90.5-point ride aboard Pete Carr Pro Rodeo’s Resistol’s Secrets Out and collected $100,000, while Rickie Fanning won the breakaway roping title in 1.71 seconds and took home $766,666.
The American’s structure matters to those payouts. The top five teams that advanced from Friday night joined five invited teams based on the 2025 world standings on Saturday, meaning invited competitors went straight into the Showdown Round while the 15 qualifier teams had to earn the right to advance. Only athletes who advanced through the qualifier system were eligible for the event’s $2 million bonus.
That split — invited teams from the world standings competing alongside qualifier survivors but with the $2 million bonus reserved solely for those who came through qualifiers — created an immediate point of friction during the Championship Weekend. Fifteen teams battled Friday for five spots, then faced high-stakes matchups on Saturday knowing the $100,000 title was up for grabs in the final four but the larger bonus belonged only to qualifier entrants.
Procedurally, the weekend was compact: May 22 saw the semifinals where 15 qualifier teams roped; May 23 hosted the Showdown and Championship Rounds that produced Summers and Corkill’s 4.83-second winning run and the final victories for Steiner and Fanning. The format — regional finals in the West, East and Central leading into the Championship Weekend — fed into the Arlington field and the winner-take headlines.
Broadcast windows for the event are part of how these results land with a wider public: the competition airs across Cowboy Channel, FS1, FS2, FOX, Cowboy+ and YouTube, carrying both the sport’s marquee moments and the ongoing storyline about who can claim the sport’s biggest bonuses.
Summers and Corkill leave Globe Life Field as first-time American champions in team roping, Steiner exits with a standout 90.5-point bareback ride and Fanning with a near-instant breakaway run that paid handsomely. The unresolved, most consequential element now is the $2 million bonus tied to the qualifier path: with only qualifier athletes eligible, attention will shift to the regional finals and next season’s qualifier fields as competitors weigh the route to the sport’s richest prize.
