About

Twenty-three time Women’s Professional Rodeo Association World Champion, Jackie Hobbs- Crawford, was born in Springfield, Illinois, where she learned to ride horses and compete in speed events. When Jackie was 12 years old she moved to Sallisaw, Oklahoma, where she developed what would become a lifelong love for roping and in 2000 was the Oklahoma High School Breakaway Roping State Champion.

After graduation, she first attended Vernon College in Vernon, Texas. In the two years she spent at Vernon College, Jackie won a NIRA National Breakaway Roping title and a NIRA National Women’s Team title. She went on to attend Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas where she was part of a second NIRA National Champion Women’s Team and was a NIRA Reserve National Champion Breakaway Roper. By the time Jackie graduated with her business degree, she had 3-consecutive NIRA Southwest Region Champion Breakaway Roping titles under her belt.

In 2017 Jackie married her husband Charly Crawford, a 10X NFR Header. Together they have three children, Kaydence, Creed, and Journey. Along with balancing being a wife, mother, competitor, and trainer, Jackie has played a key role in advancing the sport of breakaway roping to the forefront of professional rodeo. She continues to further the traditions of the sport of rodeo by conducting clinics throughout the year in Stephenville, TX, and throughout the United States.

Recent accolades include the following:

• 1st WPRA National Finals of Breakaway Roping World Champion | 2020

• 1st Breakaway Roper to win $50,000 at stand-alone event | WCRA Windy City Round-Up 2019

• Betty Gayle Cooper Ratliff Award Recipient | 1st Round Winner, NFBR 2020

• 1st woman to qualify for the American Rope Horse Futurity Finals in the Heading | 2022

• 1st woman to ever qualify for the American Semi-Finals Top 20 in the Team Roping

• 2022 American Breakaway Champion

• 2023 American Breakaway Champion, Million Dollar Contender

• 23X WPRA World Champion Roper

• 3X NFBR Qualifier