Kasey Hayes is a professional bull rider on the Professional Bull Riders' Built Ford Tough Series

Built Ford Tough Series

The Built Ford Tough Series is the "major league" tour of the PBR competitions. It is a 30-city event series culminating in the PBR World Finals every year in Las Vegas, Nevada. The top 45 riders of the PBR compete in the BFTS with the rankings determined by points and money won...

 (BFTS) tour. Kasey is one of the few riders to come on tour for the first time and win his first event that same weekend (that being the 2006 Tulsa Express PBR Classic in Tulsa, Oklahoma

Tulsa, Oklahoma

Tulsa is the second-largest city in the state of Oklahoma and 46th-largest city in the United States. With a population of 391,906 as of the 2010 census, it is the principal municipality of the Tulsa Metropolitan Area, a region with 937,478 residents in the MSA and 988,454 in the CSA. Tulsa's...

). He currently resides in Liberal, Kansas

Liberal, Kansas

Liberal is the county seat of Seward County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 20,525.- History :S.S. Rogers built the first house in what would become Liberal in 1872. Rogers became famous in the region for giving water to weary travelers...

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Biography

Raised in the plains of western Kansas, Kasey Hayes topped his first steer at the age of 9. With the guidance of his father, Hayes progressed to junior bulls and then big bulls. He won the bull riding title in the Kansas High School Rodeo Association after two years as reserve champion. At the age of 12 he was badly injured at an open bull riding in Kingman, Kansas, receiving concussion and a fractured skull. The injury put him out for two weeks and he has ridden with a face mask in every event since. Hayes took Tulsa by storm in July 2006, winning the third round with a 90-point ride and earning over $36,000 for the event championship.Kasey Hayes at PBRNow.com