WPRA Barrel Racer • Inducted 2023 Sherry (Combs) Johnson completed the family trifecta in 2023 when she joined the hallowed halls alongside her world champion horse Star Plaudit “Red,” who earned induction in 2017 and her sister Florence Youree, who was inducted as part of the Class of 2019 in the...
Bareback Riding • Class of 2022 Bobby Mote’s parents would have preferred that he went into raising and training cutting horses, but barback riding captured his attention. Mote’s first bareback ride was at 15 using a rigging that he purchased for $60 in the school cafeteria. And the rest, as they...
Bareback Riding • Inducted 2019 In 1980, Larry Peabody was about to retire from professional rodeo after two rough seasons when a $1,000 refund check from the IRS arrived in the mail. He decided to rodeo until the funds ran out. Shortly after receiving the check, Peabody won the Pikes Peak...
Bareback Riding • Inducted 2018 It may seem like Deb Greenough was destined for rodeo greatness. He was born into the family of the “Riding Greenoughs” and named after World Champion Deb Copenhaver. Yet, Greenough credits a three-letter word for much of his success – try. He rodeoed through college and...
Bareback Riding • Inducted 2016 Bud Linderman was a true cowboy in every sense. He competed in five different rodeo events, with the biggest highlight of his career coming in 1945, when he claimed the bareback riding world championship. That season, he also finished third in saddle bronc riding and third in...
Bareback Riding • Inducted 2015 Throughout his long ProRodeo career, Mark Garrett was known for his ability to perform under pressure, and that was never more evident than when he won his only gold buckle with a clutch ride in Round 10 at the 1996 National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas. His...
Bareback Riding • Inducted 2002 Clyde Vamvoras wanted to be a cowboy from an early age. Legend has it he skipped out on a job scaring blackbirds with a shotgun to ride bulls in a nearby field, and that he used his hard earned paper route money paying a nearby rancher...
Bareback Riding • Inducted 2014 Wayne Herman looked every inch the unvanquished warrior when he collected his gold buckle as the 1992 world champion bareback rider, with six stitches in his face, a black eye, a concussion and an injured riding arm, all coming as the result of a fifth-round wreck...
Bareback Riding • Inducted 2013 Chuck Logue was a major figure in his era, qualifying for the National Finals Rodeo 11 times in 12 seasons (1982-87, 1989-93), winning the world championship in 1990 and the NFR average title twice (1985 and 1990). Over the years, Logue earned a reputation for...
Bareback Riding • Inducted 2011 Lan LaJeunesse made a spectacular debut at the 1999 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo by placing in seven of 10 rounds and shattering NFR bareback riding records with 813 points on 10 horses and earnings of $99,487 on his way to a dramatic world championship victory over...
