[“Community Coffee is a Louisiana company, and being from there, that’s all I grew up knowing, and drinking is Community Coffee,” said Rowdy Parrott, a Louisiana native and 3x Wrangler National Finals Rodeo qualifier. “Every gas station and truck stop around there has Community Coffee.
“I saw they were breaking into the rodeo world, and I had a contact with them that I knew from high school,” said the 29-year-old steer wrestler. “He told me I was on the list of people they were planning on reaching out to, and I signed with Community Coffee in 2021.” Rowdy said he likes his coffee simple and hot. His favorite being the Signature Blend Dark Roast with no added sugar or creamers.]
Rowdy Parrott, originally from Mamou, Louisiana, but now living in Bellville, Texas, said he fell in love with rodeo and steer wrestling after he learned to chute dog in the 8th grade. Chute dogging is a step down from steer wrestling, where younger athletes can learn to throw a steer without jumping from a moving horse.
“I had a friend who lived down the road, and I started roping and chute dogging with him,” Rowdy said. “Then I steer wrestled all through high school, and I bought my pro card right after high school in 2013.” “I love the physical side of steer wrestling,” Rowdy said of his choice in rodeo events. “I played football and other sports, and I really liked the feel of being able to throw a steer down, and I was better at that than I was roping.”
Rowdy credits Tom Carney and Mike Waguespack, a Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association cowboy in the ‘90s, for teaching and helping him perfect his technique when he was younger. “I always looked up to those top guys like Luke Branquinho,” Rowdy said. “But the most help I received really came from Tom and the Waguespacks.” Rowdy said he and Tyler Waguespack, who has five PRCA Steer Wrestling world titles, competed in the National High School Rodeo Association together. “Wags was two years ahead of me in school, so we have been rodeoing together for a long time,” Rowdy added. 
Rowdy was crowned the Louisiana High School Rodeo Association steer wrestling champion in 2011. He also represented the state of Louisiana at the NHSRA Finals in 2009 as a team roper and in 2010-12 in the steer wrestling.
After high school, Rowdy said he hit the road chasing the end goal of a world champion gold buckle. In 2013, he won PRCA Rookie of the Year in the steer wrestling and made his first WNFR appearance in 2017. Now Rowdy travels with his younger brother Remey, who also steer wrestles, and Tyler. During the summer, when school is not in session, his wife and three children travel with him. “I have an amazing wife, Lynette,” Rowdy said. “We have three kids, two boys and a girl.”
Rowdy and Lynette met at a rodeo while they were both in college. While he said he did not compete in college rodeo longer than half of a single semester, Rowdy did receive his Bachelor of Science in criminal justice from McNeese State University. The couple married in 2015 and have two sons, Pacen and Bayler, and one daughter, Vail.
“The boys are wild,” Rowdy said. “They love steer wrestling. They wrestle each other and love being out in the arena when we are practicing.” “The boys are awesome, but my wife really wanted a girl,” Rowdy said. “They say girls stick to their daddies, but she’s still so young that hasn’t started to happen yet.”
In Bellville, around an hour west of Houston, the couple owns and operates Crawfish Outlet to Geaux, a seasonal crawfish hut. “From mid-February to the end of May, crawfish season, we sell boiled crawfish to-go,” Rowdy said.
“In 2020, when covid hit, I needed another job,” Rowdy said. “I grew up farming rice and crawfish, and they have these huts all over, so I decided I wanted to try it out.” The business started out under a tent on the side of a road in Bellville. But it soon rose in popularity, and now, Rowdy said, they have their own building.
“My house isn’t far from Houston,” Rowdy said. “So, all the steer wrestlers stay at my house and eat crawfish during the Houston rodeo.” While he did not make the 2023 WNFR, Rowdy said he is using that to motivate him going into the 2024 winter rodeos.
