Carlee Otero Closes: 2026 Puyallup Barrel Racing Results

Carlee Otero won the Cinch Playoff Series round at Puyallup, Wash., on Sunday, running 13.85 in the finals at the Washington State Fair. The win is worth an unofficial $13,900 and puts her week at $16,533, enough to take the top spot in the WPRA world standings from Hayle Gibson-Stillwell at a projected $202,389. Otero, Michelle Alley, Lisa Lockhart and Megan McLeod-Sprague fill Puyallup’s four spots at the Governor’s Cup in Sioux Falls, S.D., Sept. 25-27. Daysheets, format, payout and round-by-round results are below.

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How Puyallup works

The 24 riders are split into two sets of 12. Each set runs two go-rounds back to back, one performance to the next. The top four on the average out of each set advance to an eight-woman semifinal Sunday, Sept. 13, and the top four out of the semifinal come back the same day for the finals.

Set 1 runs Thursday night and Friday night. Set 2 runs the Saturday matinee and Saturday night. Every go-round pays four places on its own.

The field is the top 23 in Playoff Series barrel racing points at the Aug. 24 cutoff plus the NFR Open champion, Caitlyn White. Points go to the top 20 placings at each Playoff Series rodeo, awarded on placings in the average, and a rider with no score or no time earns nothing. The full points mechanics are in our Cinch Playoff Series explainer, and the qualifier list is in the Puyallup 24.

Money won here counts toward the WPRA world standings. So does money won at the Governor’s Cup. Both land inside the regular season, which is why the top 15 can still move on the last weekend.

Table of contents

• How Puyallup works
• The payout
• The daysheetSet 1, round 1: Thursday, Sept. 10Set 1, round 2: Friday, Sept. 11Set 2, round 1: Saturday, Sept. 12, matineeSet 2, round 2: Saturday, Sept. 12, evening
  • Set 1, round 1: Thursday, Sept. 10
  • Set 1, round 2: Friday, Sept. 11
  • Set 2, round 1: Saturday, Sept. 12, matinee
  • Set 2, round 2: Saturday, Sept. 12, evening
• ResultsSet 1, round 1Set 1, round 2Set 1, advancing to the semifinalSet 2, round 1Set 2, round 2SemifinalsFinals
  • Set 1, round 1
  • Set 1, round 2
  • Set 1, advancing to the semifinal
  • Set 2, round 1
  • Set 2, round 2
  • Semifinals
  • Finals
• What Puyallup sets up
• More Playoff Series coverage

The payout

Barrel racing is added $77,000 at Puyallup, paid equal with the other events.

Each of the four go-rounds pays $8,775. The semifinal pays $6,400, split $1,600 apiece to fifth through eighth, with the top four advancing. The finals pay $35,500.

The daysheet

Set 1, round 1: Thursday, Sept. 10

1. Heidi Gunderson (Murdock, Minn.)
2. Hailey Kinsel (Cotulla, Texas)
3. Emma Kate Parr (Greensboro, Ala.)
4. Summer Kosel (Glenham, S.D.)
5. McKenna Coronado (Kanarraville, Utah)
6. Loralee Ward (Fort Lupton, Colo.)
7. Megan McLeod-Sprague (Marsing, Idaho)
8. Katelyn Scott (Odessa, Texas)
9. Tricia Aldridge (Sanger, Texas)
10. Sydney Graham (Abilene, Texas)
11. Hayle Gibson-Stillwell (Redcrest, Calif.)
12. Emily Beisel (Weatherford, Okla.)

Set 1, round 2: Friday, Sept. 11

1. Emily Beisel
2. Hayle Gibson-Stillwell
3. Sydney Graham
4. Tricia Aldridge
5. Katelyn Scott
6. Megan McLeod-Sprague
7. Loralee Ward
8. McKenna Coronado
9. Summer Kosel
10. Emma Kate Parr
11. Hailey Kinsel
12. Heidi Gunderson

Set 2, round 1: Saturday, Sept. 12, matinee

1. Michelle Alley (Madisonville, Texas)
2. Kim Squires (Carnegie, Okla.)
3. Abby Phillips (Marshall, Texas)
4. Lisa Lockhart (Oelrichs, S.D.)
5. Raelin Jurgens (Parker, S.D.)
6. Caitlyn White (Spanish Fork, Utah)
7. LaTricia Duke (Henrietta, Texas)
8. Andrea Busby (Brock, Texas)
9. Kassie Mowry (Dublin, Texas)
10. Makenzie Mayes (Scroggins, Texas)
11. Tayla Moeykens (Three Forks, Mont.)
12. Carlee Otero (Lipan, Texas)

Set 2, round 2: Saturday, Sept. 12, evening

1. Carlee Otero
2. Tayla Moeykens
3. Makenzie Mayes
4. Kassie Mowry
5. Andrea Busby
6. LaTricia Duke
7. Caitlyn White
8. Raelin Jurgens
9. Lisa Lockhart
10. Abby Phillips
11. Kim Squires
12. Michelle Alley

Semifinals -Sunday Round of 8 (not in running order)

Sydney Graham

Megan Mcleod-Sprague

Heidi Gunderson

Summer Kosel

Michelle Alley

Tayla Moeykens

Carlee Otero

Lisa Lockhart

Results

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Set 1, round 1

Official, as posted by the PRCA. Four places paid.

1. Megan McLeod-Sprague, 13.83, $3,510
2. Tricia Aldridge, 13.91, $2,633
3. Summer Kosel, 13.93, $1,755
4. Sydney Graham, 13.97, $878

Stay tuned for full results

Set 1, round 2

Official, as posted by the PRCA. Four places paid.

1. Sydney Graham, 13.77, $3,510
2. Heidi Gunderson, 13.82, $2,633
3. Katelyn Scott, 13.87, $1,755
4. Summer Kosel, 13.97, $878

Set 1, advancing to the semifinal

Top four on the two-round average. The semifinal runs Sunday, Sept. 13.

1. Sydney Graham, 27.74 on two head
2. Megan McLeod-Sprague, 27.83
3. Heidi Gunderson, 27.84
4. Summer Kosel, 27.90

Set 2, round 1

Official, as posted by the PRCA. Four places paid.

Set 2, round 2

Official, as posted by the PRCA. Four places paid.

1. Tayla Moeykens, 13.90, $3,510; 2. Michelle Alley, 14.04, $2,633; 3. Lisa Lockhart, 14.08, $1,755; 4. Andrea Busby, 14.15, $878; 5. Raelin Jurgens, 14.24; 6. Carlee Otero, 14.30; 7. Kim Squires, 14.51; 8. Caitlyn White, 19.03; 9. Kassie Mowry, 19.10; 10. LaTricia Duke, 19.26; 11. Makenzie Mayes, 19.73; 12. Abby Phillips, 19.89.

Set 2, advancing to the semifinal

Top four on the two-round average, official.

1. Michelle Alley, 27.81 on two head
2. Tayla Moeykens, 27.94
3. Carlee Otero, 28.22
4. Lisa Lockhart, 28.30

Semifinals

1. Michelle Alley, 13.82
2. Carlee Otero, 14.09
3. Megan McLeod-Sprague, 14.25
4. Lisa Lockhart, 14.36

(unofficial field advancing to finals)

Finals

Unofficial. One run, clean slate. Payouts below are our figures off the published Puyallup finals payout. They are not official money.

1. Carlee Otero, 13.85, $13,900
2. Michelle Alley, 14.15, $10,550
3. Lisa Lockhart, 19.19, $7,200
4. Megan McLeod-Sprague, 19.27, $3,850

Otero wins Puyallup. All four finalists fill Puyallup’s seats at the Governor’s Cup.

What Puyallup sets up

The four who come out of Sunday’s finals fill half the Governor’s Cup field. The other eight seats go to the top eight in Playoff Series points at the Sept. 21 cutoff, the Monday after Mandan and Pendleton. The Governor’s Cup runs Sept. 25–27 at the Denny Sanford Premier Center in Sioux Falls, S.D., with a purse of more than $1.5 million across all events and barrel racing paid equal.

Last year Halyn Lide won Sioux Falls and locked in her NFR spot doing it. Our coverage of that one is here.

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