Schiffner thrilled with rodeo season

Justin Seward
Times Reporter

 

Despite placing outside the Top 35 at the Professional Bull Riding (PBR) finals in Saskatoon last weekend, Scott Schiffner is very thrilled with what he was able to accomplish this rodeo season.
Schiffner was going into the PBR as the reigning champion, but it was just not his weekend this time around.
“I got bucked off both of my bulls up there so it wasn’t a very profitable weekend at all,” said Schiffner. “They’re just good bulls and that’s the whole thing in bull riding, you got to stay on for eight seconds and I didn’t do it.”
He admits that the reality of bull riding is you can’t control how the animal is going to react in the arena.
“There’s lots of things – in bull riding, it’s staying on. It’s one of them things where everybody thinks it’s simple, but you’re competing against a predictable live animal that’s spreads the buck and that’s their job is to buck you off and sometimes it’s just not in the cards,” said Schiffner.
Overall, Schiffner had a very successful year with winning the Calgary Stampede and doing well at other events.
“It went good, the thing this year I was proud of in pressure situations, I raised my level in Calgary, winning $100,000 there and I had to dig deep at the end of the year and make Canadian Finals. I always like to do a little better at the Canadian Finals, it’s my favorite place to be,” said Schiffner.
He ended up placing third overall in the PBR circuit at season’s end.