As a chuckwagon driver and as an outrider, Roger has had a career he can certainly be proud of. As a chuckwagon driver with the WPCA, Roger a won four show titles, with his biggest win coming at the Ponoka Stampede in 2013. He has received the the Herman Flad Memorial Award for Most Improved Driver, the WPCA Clean Drive Award, and had a horse named to WPCA Equine Outfits Of Excellence. At the Calgary Stampede Roger won the 1997 Orville Strandquist Award for being Calgary Stampede’s Top Rookie Driver, and had a horse named to the Calgary Stampede Equine Athlete of Excellence.
As an outrider, Roger won two Calgary Stampede GMC Rangeland Derby Championships, four Calgary Stampede Aggregate titles, and was a CPCA Champion Outrider six times.
Roger’s career began on the Canadian Professional Chuckwagon Association (CPCA) circuit where he won ten CPCA show championships and qualified for the championship final heat for the CPCA Championship in 2010. He was the CPCA High Point Rookie Driver in 1994, received the CPCA Chuckwagon Family of the Year Award in 2007.
Roger works as a truck driver and a cat operator in the off-season. Roger has four children – Kristie, Rochelle, Corey and Kleyson – and makes his home in Loon Lake, Saskatchewan.
