PUEBLO, Colo. – The PBR is back in action, and in a way that you’ve never seen it before.

The PBR Monster Energy Team Challenge, presented by U.S. Border Patrol, will run from June 5-28 at the South Point Hotel Casino and Spa in Las Vegas, and culminate in a Championship Weekend Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on July 10-12 in front of fans. The event will feature 12 teams and 48 bull riders, with each team consisting of four riders, and there will be two divisions of six teams. The Top 3 teams in each division will then qualify for Championship Weekend.

Each of the 12 competing teams will be comprised of three active riders, one of whom is the Captain, an alternate, and a supervisory General Manager.

Division A will hold its first weekend of competition June 5-7, followed by its final weekend of play June 12-14. Teams to be announced in Division B will compete the weekends of June 19-21 and June 26-28. Each night of televised action on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, will feature three games, with each team competing once per night at the Pendleton Whisky Let ‘Er Buck Saloon at South Point Arena.

Each game will be comprised of 12 collective outs, with each team attempting six bulls. In each game, three riders per team, as selected by the General Manager, will attempt two bulls each. The winner of each game will be the team with the top combined aggregate score from their six outs.

On Wednesday, the first six teams – comprising Division A – were announced. In the lead-up to competition, PBR.com will be diving deeper into each roster.

The second team on the docket, led by general manager Ross Coleman, features team captain and world No. 8 Colten Jesse, No. 33 Brennon Eldred, Roscoe Jarboe and No. 54 Joseph McConnel.

Read on to learn more about Team Jesse, and stay tuned for more on the rest of Division A.

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COLTEN JESSE

At No. 8 in the world standings, Colten Jesse is off to the best start of his young career. After finishing No. 2 to Keyshawn Whitehorse in the 2018 Rookie of the Year race, Jesse missed the entire second half of 2019 following reconstructive right shoulder surgery, returning just for the 2019 PBR World Finals. In 2020, Jesse won his career first 15/15 Bucking Battle in Kansas City, and has two Top-2 finishes under his belt.

Jesse is also no stranger to team-formatted events. He’s competed at two PBR Global Cups representing the Team USA Wolves, and is 2-for-6 in Global Cup competition.

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BRENNON ELDRED

Fellow Oklahoman Brennon Eldred is ranked No. 33 in the world, and he hasn’t had the easiest go of it this season. He dislocated a hip at the 2019 Pendleton Whisky Velocity Tour Finals and missed the first three events of 2020. He then sustained a concussion in his first event back. He’s 7-for-21 on the premier series this season, and he has a trio of sixth-place finishes.

Eldred also has significant Global Cup experience, competing for the Team USA Eagles in the first three Global Cup bull ridings. Eldred was being a member of the inaugural winning team in Edmonton. He’s 5-for-7 all-time at the Global Cup, but he was selected to the 2020 unit.

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ROSCOE JARBOE

While Roscoe Jarboe has competed at a handful of PBR events in the last several years – just one in 2019, and two each in 2018 and 2017 – he hasn’t been a regular since 2016, when he would compete on the Velocity Tour and in PBR Canada. Since then, Jarboe has been competing on the rodeo circuit. He qualified for the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo three times (2016-18) and is currently ranked No. 34 in the PRCA world standings.

JOSEPH MCCONNEL

Joseph McConnel made his premier series debut back in 2013, but only competed in three events at that level before returning at the U.S. Border Patrol Invitational in St. Louis in February. He’s since competed at the three closed-to-the-public Unleash The Beast events at the Lazy E Arena in Oklahoma, and earned his career-first Pendleton Whisky Velocity Tour event win in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in February.

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