Former Head Rodeo Coach
Hometown: Greeley, CO
College(s): Central Wyoming College
Ford spent three and a half years leading the Dodge City rodeo team as head coach.
During the 2023-24 school year he coached a College National Finals Rodeo qualifier as Kyle Cheney finished third in Central Region standings in bull riding to qualify for CNFR in Casper, Wyoming. Cheney and his teammate, Damien Wood each won a bull riding competition during the 2023-24 regular season. Ford helped guide the men's rodeo team to a 10th place finish in the Central Region for the year with and the women's team to a 13th place finish in the region, with four individual men being ranked in events in Top 15 in region.
He came to Dodge City after a highly touted professional career with the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association [PRCA] lasting from 2001-2015. After joining the PRCA in 2001, Ford didn't waste much time making his mark by winning the year-end bull riding title in the Mountain States Circuit in both 2004 and 2005. Ford won the PRCA Extreme Bulls stop in Ellensburg, Washington while ending the year as the PRCA Extreme Bulls runner up in 2005 as well. He followed that up in 2006 by winning the Dodge Xtreme Bulls Ride Hard Tour in San Antonio, Texas.
He is a two-time Wrangler National Finals Rodeo [NFR] qualifier, qualifying in both 2005 and 2006. In his NFR debut in 2005, the Colorado native won the first round of his Wrangler NFR with a 90-point ride on Flying Five Rodeo's Spotted Jacket. He would go on to finish 7th in the world standings in 2005, followed up with an 11th place finish in the world standings in 2006. Ford had two other top-50 world finishes, placing 36th in 2009 and 51st in 2010.
Born and raised in Greeley, Colorado, Ford attended Central Wyoming College in Riverton, Wyoming. There he was apart of four men's regional championships during his time at Central Wyoming, qualifying for the college nationals in 2001 in both bareback riding and bull riding.
Ford's success as a rider comes in a long line of successful bareback and bull riders in his family. He is the cousin of eight-time Wrangler NFR bareback rider Royce Ford, the brother of three-time NFR qualifier in bareback riding Heath Ford, and the nephew of five-time world champion bareback rider and ProRodeo Hall of Famer Bruce Ford. His father, Glen Ford, qualified for the NFR back in 1976.
Ford comes to Dodge City with his wife DeAnn Ford along with their two daughters of four and one years old.
