TREVOR KASTNER By Kelly B. Robbins
Bull riders are a special breed of cowboy. They know who they are, and they love what they do. Bull riders are smart, they are skilled, and they are tough! Meet Trevor Kastner. He is a smart, skilled, and tough professional bull rider from Roff, Oklahoma, with over 50 event wins in his career. Trevor has earned over one million dollars pursuing the “toughest sport on dirt”. Trevor grew up in Ardmore, Oklahoma, where his dad John was a ranch foreman and an amateur saddle bronc rider. Trevor started riding calves when he was five years old, and he has been riding bulls ever since. “My parents were always real supportive of anything we wanted to do,” Trevor said. “They believed that if we really wanted to do something, we should go for it.”
Trevor is a six-time NFR qualifier, from 2011-2013 and 20182020. His favorite rodeo is the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo, which is where he just happens to be headed next on February 19-21. I asked Trevor what he felt was his greatest accomplishment as a bull rider. “I guess I’d say that being able to make a living at bull riding for the past ten years is my greatest accomplishment.” Trevor’s last event was the Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo at Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas. When he wasn’t riding, he worked with Dustin Boquet training kids five to fourteen years old at a Rough Stock Camp the PRCA held there. The
Trevor and his wife, Kate, are raising four-year-old daughter McKenna and two-year-old son, Korbyn on their 40-acre spread in Roff, Oklahoma. They have 15 head of mares and raise ranch horses. When he purchased his PRCA card in 2008, Trevor was riding bulls only part time. In 2010 he began riding a full schedule of events. “My most memorable ride was at the 2012 NFR,” Trevor revealed. “I was the only rider to get a score in the round.” Humps-Horns.com · 16 · March 2022
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During his high school years at Dickson High School, Trevor participated in junior and amateur rodeos. He got a rodeo scholarship to Western Oklahoma State College in Altus, and later he got a scholarship to Ranger College in Ranger, Texas. He qualified for the College National Finals Rodeo in 2009 and 2010. He was the reserve bull riding champion in the Central Plains Region of the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association in 2010.
