She won the WPRA barrel-racing world championship in 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2022 at the National Finals Rodeo (NFR).
Kinsel and her horses have qualified for the NFR eight consecutive times in her years in professional rodeo from 2017 through 2024.
Kinsel then competed on a gelding named Thunder Stones, nicknamed TJ, throughout college rodeo.
[3] Kinsel and her mother bought her current barrel racing horse DM Sissy Hayday "Sister" as a filly.
Kinsel, Cody DeMoss, and Sage Kimzey each received $333,333.33 from what is called the side pot, as well as $100,000 for winning their respective events.
Sister helped Kinsel win almost $500,000 in the last couple of months leading up to and including the American.
She set a new NFR earnings record by winning $189,385 in barrel racing over the entire 10 days of competition.
[11][1][12][13][14][15] In February, Kinsel competed at the AT&T Center, in the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo in Texas.
Kinsel and Sister swept Bracket 1 to start the semifinals as the high money winners and finish as the same.
[17] This season, Sister earned more than $1 million in her career, including significant money for winning both the Calgary Stampede and the Days of '47 Rodeo.
"[3] At the 60th NFR on Saturday, December 15, in Las Vegas, Kinsel won her first barrel racing world championship.
She and NFR Average winner Carman Pozzobon accepted their gold buckles and saddles in front of an audience of 17,150 in the stadium that evening.
"We had (the world championship) won, and I could have run (Sister) to try for that Top Gun deal, but she owes me nothing", Kinsel said.
She also took second place at the Annual Cowboy Capital of the World PRCA Rodeo in Stephenville, Texas.
When she finished her winning run, the clock confirmed that she had matched the arena record, which is 16.99 seconds.
[1] Kinsel and her horse Sister won the World Barrel Racing Championship for the second time.
[1] Kinsel and her horse, Sister, ran the fastest time of the Dodge City, Kansas, rodeo.
[26] That day, they also set a new WPRA rodeo record for a standard barrel racing pattern with a time of 16.63 seconds.
[28] Kinsel finished in second place at the Mineral Wells PRCA Rodeo in Texas.
[28] Due to COVID-19, the NFR was held at the Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas, this season.
Kinsel was already in possession of the all-time record on a standard-sized pattern at 13.63 seconds back in Dodge City earlier this year.
However, in their round Thursday night, Sister moved through the turns faster and sped through the pattern quicker than most horses can achieve, and they clocked the run at 16.56; a new record.
After that, she gave Sister a break while she rode TJ in West Jordan, Utah, earning a check of $234.
Her total earnings during Cowboy Christmas were $22,238, making her the highest money earner for the event and, placing her back at the No.
In the finals, she and Sister clocked a run of 17.30 seconds in the short go, which won her first place in barrel racing in the rodeo.
DM Sissy Hayday "Sister" is a Palomino American Quarter Horse mare born in 2011.
[54] Kinsel graduated in 2017 from Texas A&M University (College Station) with a BA in Agriculture Economics.
[1] Kinsel competed on the Fightin' Aggie Rodeo team in barrel racing, breakaway roping, and goat tying.
While attending university, she maintained a packed schedule that included classwork, taking care of three horses, leading a Bible study, and competing in PRCA rodeos.
[6] In April 2018, Kinsel and two-time PBR world-champion bull rider Jess Lockwood started a relationship.