Jared Parsonage hold his winning cheques. Courtesy/Covy Moore

By Jesse Gill

National Champion

Maple Creek’s Parsonage goes out on top with PBR Canada Championship

Nov 17, 2025 | 12:56 PM

Maple Creek’s Jared Parsonage announced his retirement from bull riding on Saturday night in front of a sold-out crowd at Rogers Place in Edmonton.

The 32-year-old had just won his first Professional Bull Riders Canada Championship after amassing the most points through the 2025 season.

He capped it off by also winning the PBR Canada National Finals.

“It was really good, couldn’t have wrote it up much better to be honest,” Parsonage said.

In October, Parsonage also won the Canadian Pro Rodeo Association Bull Riding Championship, the first athlete to win both Canadian titles in the same year. It was his third CPRA title win.

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He is also the fifth bull rider to win both the PBR Canada Championship and PBR Canada National Finals in the same year.

“To do that and have that dominant of a little ending run, I think it’ll probably be pretty hard to duplicate,” Parsonage said.

“To finish it all off career-wise that way, it’s pretty cool,” he added.

“Probably the best thing to leave the sport, walked off that stage, left it on my own terms, without the sport getting rid of me. I got to leave and quit on my own terms.”

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Jared Parsonage with his family after the win. Courtesy/Covy Moore

Parsonage finished the season with 1484.5 points to sit 213 points ahead of second-place Dakota Buttar of Eatonia, Sask. Buttar took third spot at the PBR Canada Nationals Finals.

In the championship round of the PBR Canada National Finals Parsonage scored an 87.5 riding Moonwalk, the PBR Canada Bull of the Year. He also had a successful ride of 84.75 on Trailer Trash earlier Saturday night to win the final day of competition.

Parsonage was consistent throughout the finals as one of only two riders to register four rides.

He scored an 83.25 on Jet Black to start things off Friday, and followed that up with an 86.25 on Pyper.

The total winnings for Parsonage over the weekend included $100,000 for the PBR Canada Championship, $50,000 for the PBR Canada National Finals win.

He finished the 2025 PBR Canada Season with $230,101.73 in winnings to go with $78,100.46 won through the CPRA. Parsonage took home a total of $308,208.19 for riding bulls during the year.

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Jared Parsonage’s son holds the championship belt buckle. Courtesy/Covy Moore

Parsonage will travel less in the future, no longer riding bulls, and spending more time with his wife and kids, who joined him after the win.

“That was pretty cool. That’s one of the cooler things, Jason Davidson at the PBR had that all organized with the kids, and all that means a lot to me,” Parsonage said.

“To have that all organized and do all that was pretty damn neat to say the least, and all the memories we’ll have.”

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Jared Parsonage hugs his son after winning. Courtesy/Covy Moore

Retirement was something Parsonage said he knew about all year, but never really told others about.

“This was gonna be the last year. I couldn’t have wrote the script any better if a person tried to. It’s pretty fortunate of it all, and at the end of the day, it couldn’t have went any better,” Parsonage said.

“The sports have given me a lot of opportunities, and I’ve met a lot of people, and the glass is pretty full, and a person can only take so much that when the time comes, it’s time to get back.”

Parsonage said even if he’s not riding bulls, he figures he’ll stay involved with the sport somehow.

“I haven’t really got into thought about too much yet how a person’s gonna go about that, but the sports given me a lot and you know more or less the friends and everything there’s a ton of stuff that I’ve got from the sport I think it’s probably only fair to give back and stay involved somehow,” Parsonage said.

“I definitely want to do that, and I think there are ways that can be done.”

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Jared Parsonage walks out to fire works. Courtesy/Covy Moore

Parsonage started bull riding professionally in 2014.

“It’s been a big part of my life for a long time because when a guy’s a kid getting going riding steers and stuff, you start with that,” Parsonage said.

“I’m grateful for all the opportunities and the people and places I have been and all that stuff,” he added.

“I think that’s more than what the titles you win. I think that those memories and friendships and all that will be what a person keeps with them for sure.”