RARE COWBOY COMPANY
When he backs into the heading box at next month’s 2021 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo, Clint Summers will join some very rare rodeo company. The NFR Switchenders Club is so exclusive that before this year only seven cowboys—Bret Beach, Trevor Brazile, David Motes, Walt Rodman, Mark Simon, Speed Williams and J.D. Yates, in alphabetical order—have ever accomplished the feat in the history of Rodeo’s Super Bowl. Quinn Kesler will also head in Vegas, which brings this party’s total to nine.
“I’m overly excited, I really am,” said Summers, 30, who calls Lake City, Florida home, and also has a place in Stephen-ville, Texas. “I heeled forever, and maybe it’s just part of being a heeler—every heeler thinks he can head.”
Summers heeled for 2017 World Champion Header Erich Rogers at his first Finals in 2018.
“Making the NFR was definitely a dream come true,” Summers says. “It was everything I’d worked for my whole life, from when I was roping the Fast Lane as a kid. All I ever thought about was trying to get to the NFR. When I finally got there, it was an awesome feeling.”
Summers finished in the 2018 world heeling standings. Then came 2019, which did not go so swimmingly. Summers started the year heeling for Rogers. When they split around San Antonio and Houston time that winter, Clint found himself in no man’s land.
