Nick Tetz claims a record six straight PBR Canada Cup Series wins in Lethbridge, Alberta

AIRDRIE, Alta. – Nick Tetz won his sixth consecutive PBR Canada Cup Series event in Lethbridge, Alberta, this weekend, besting a field of 28 competitors en route to his historic victory.

The streak — which began in 2022 — remains unbroken. After an arduous re-ride situation, Tetz covered a total of five bucking bulls over two nights on his way to yet another Lethbridge title.

Streaks and dominance in professional sports are nothing new, but winning the same event across six consecutive iterations is nearly unheard of, especially in a sport where the variables change every 8 seconds.

"I always feel really good showing up there. It always seems like I always have something pretty good drawn the first day. I think Lethbridge has really been a place where I've really matured as a bull rider too," Tetz said.

Missing the event in 2018 during his rookie season and again in 2019 due to a shoulder injury meant Tetz arrived in Lethbridge more seasoned when he returned to compete inside VisitLethbridge.com Arena in 2020, just before the world shut down due to COVID-19.

"In 2020, before the world shut down, drew a really good one of Lane Skori's and ended up winning the round. It just kind of rolled since then. Red Deer's event is cool because it's the first Cup Series of the year, but it is different with Lethbridge. It feels like you get down to Lethbridge and there's no snow on the ground and it's kind of starting to warm up. You're feeling like things are kicking off and you have this excitement and almost this fluttery feeling that the year is kicking off.”

"It's one of those events that it's not very hard to get yourself amped up for,” Tetz continued. “The crowd is absolutely unreal in Lethbridge. It's just super, super easy to go out and just go compete and do what you do. There's a bunch of little things that have worked in my favour in Lethbridge and it's just kind of all snowballed since then."

That comfort matters, especially at an event as established as Lethbridge, often dubbed "Leth Vegas" by riders and fans, where the stands are tight, the building is loud, and the pace can be relentless.

For Tetz, familiarity has become an advantage: knowing the routines, the timing, the back hallways, and even the small details that keep a rider's mind quiet before the gate open.

With such a run of success in one place, Tetz said it's the little things like having a private spot to warm up and knowing the ins and outs of the building that add to the comfort.

"In Lethbridge, I feel like I can kind of get anywhere I want. I know where everything is. I have my one spot that I always go and warm up at every single year. I know that the one panel is going to be sitting right there. So, you know, it's stuff like that," Tetz said.

This March, however, his weekend was anything but routine.

On Friday night, Tetz first matched up with Skori Bucking Bulls' Hanna Motors Stand By You. After the out, judges determined the bull score was too low to give a rider a fair shot at winning the round, and Tetz was awarded a re-ride. He made the most of it, successful in his matchup with Vold Rodeo’s Counting Sheep for 85.7 points, the second-best score of Round 1.

Moments later, Tetz went back to work. In the special 5/5 Bucking Battle that accompanied the tour stop, he took on Night Fury and posted an 84.6-point score.

On Championship Saturday, he bested Skori's Linebacker for 85.8 points, punching his ticket to the championship round with the lead — and first pick in the bull draft.

With the top selection, Tetz chose Foley Bucking Bulls' Pyper, a standout bucker from the Lloydminster outfit. He came up just shy of 90, delivering an 89.9-point ride, but the score was enough to cement the win and extended his Lethbridge streak to six.

For Tetz, the toughest stretch wasn't the pressure of the final round, but it was the pace and the physical demand of covering three bulls in quick succession on Friday night.

He was late in the order in Round 1, then awarded a re-ride, and then had to turn around almost immediately for the 5/5 Bucking Battle.

"Tanner Eno just took my rope and went and got it set for me,” Tetz chronicled. “That's kind of the cool thing with bull riding, is that as much as it looks like we're competing against each other, we're really just competing against our bulls, and everybody wants the best for you.”

“I know how Tanner is, Tanner sets a good rope. I don't have to worry about anything. I basically just find some water and kind of wet my whistle, and then I got up there and I asked Zane [Lambert] how much time before I had to nod, and they wanted to do a sing-a-long. I said no, let's buck my bull right now.”

"I want to go right now, especially if we got the 5/5 bucking battle, because it's a short break too, and I just want to get going. I knew you can put anything out of your mind for 8 seconds, so you're tired. But when we practice, we will get on this many bulls, sometimes in a shorter length of time, so it was just time to get the work done."

That team-first mentality is part of what has defined Tetz' career in Canada. Even at the top of the standings, and even amid a win streak that's drawing attention across the sport, the two-time PBR Canada Champion continues to credit the people around him, and treats each event as a job that requires the same preparation and effort as the last.

Earlier in the season, Tetz admitted his goals for 2026 look different than in previous years.

With hopes of earning qualifications on the pro rodeo side, he wants to make a run at the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo. But with wins in three of the first four events, and back-to-back PBR Canada Cup Series victories this early in the year, Tetz says that plan is still in his sights, and so is chasing another PBR Canada Championship.

"It's only March right now so to be talking about having this big of a lead, it can disappear really quickly if you let your foot off the gas, so I think for me it's definitely kind of reset some of the goals and what I'm going to set out to do this year.”

“But it does give me a little bit more freedom right now to be able to kind of go chase some other things at the same time," Tetz added.

The Lethbridge event weekend wasn't only about competition, either. Between getting on five bulls across two nights, attending the annual PBR Canada Media Day, and fitting in a Lammle's signing, Tetz also made time for something that matters just as much to him: checking in on his people.

He visited his friend and fellow bull rider Chanse Switzer, who was hospitalized following a wreck in Round 1.

For Tetz, it's a reminder that bull riding is equal parts grit and community, that riders are friends first, and that support matters when someone is sidelined, stuck in a hospital bed, or simply needs help getting down the road to the next event.

"It's one of those things that it's going to happen, and you want to be there for your buddies. If Chanse was a little smarter he would have stuck his chest out a little bit more on that bull and he probably would have rode him. He'll be the first one to tell you that," Tetz laughed.

"We had to give him a care package. He's going a little stir crazy so we went in there and delivered him some goodies. I also know just sitting in the hospital and how absolutely boring it is so if we can go in there and just have a nice little BS session with him and distract him from what's going on and the fact that he's stuck in the hospital. Bring him a little bit of a smile."

Six straight in Lethbridge. Five bulls in two days. A re-ride, a quick turnaround, and a near-90 in the championship round. For Nick Tetz, the results speak loudly. But the equation remains the same: preparation, comfort in the building, trust in his crew, and a mindset built to do the job, one out at a time.