Occupation | Rodeo competitor |
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Discipline | Barrel racing |
Born | Cotulla, Texas, US | October 3, 1994
Major wins/Championships | 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2022 Women's Professional Rodeo Association World Champion barrel racer |
Significant horses | |
DM Sissy Hayday "Sister" Thunder Stones "TJ" |
Hailey Kinsel (born October 3, 1994), is an American professional rodeo cowgirl who specializes in barrel racing and competes in the Women's Professional Rodeo Association (WPRA). She won the WPRA barrel-racing world championship in 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2022 at the National Finals Rodeo (NFR). She has also won the NFR Average title once in 2020. Kinsel and her horses have qualified for the NFR six times in her years in professional rodeo; in 2017 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022. She has been competing in rodeo since adolescence, winning awards through high school and college in both barrel racing and breakaway roping, as well as professional rodeo. Her horse, Sister, won the Barrel Racing Horse of the Year Award in 2018.