KEITH ISLEY Contract Personnel Inducted 2026 Like most rodeo clowns, Keith Isley started on the contestant side riding bucking horses and bulls in his teens. Isley fought bulls between rides and considered becoming a full-time bullfighter, but he wasn’t too thrilled about being in the spotlight. When the clown at the rodeo Isley...
Contract Personnel • Inducted 2001 Tom Hadley never planned to be a rodeo announcer. His career goal was to be a rodeo cowboy. During his competitive years, he entered bull riding, bareback riding, saddle bronc riding, tie-down roping and team roping. Born Oct. 6, 1927, in Lawton, Okla., Hadley was a...
Contract Personnel • Inducted 2001 Jo Decker wore many hats during her rodeo career. She started her career shortly after high school as one of the “Ranch Girls” at the Madison Square Garden Rodeo. She was known as a consummate horsewoman and better able to diagnose a problem than the local...
Contract Personnel • Inducted 2000 *Inducted as a pair with George Doak. George Doak and Junior Meek were destined to be together. Both started their bullfighting careers as a means of trading entry fees for the bull riding, although Doak also entered bareback riding while Meek chose steer wrestling and tie-down roping....
Contract Personnel • Inducted 2000 *Inducted as a pair with Junior Meek. George Doak and Junior Meek were destined to be together. Both started their bullfighting careers as a means of trading entry fees for the bull riding, although Doak also entered bareback riding while Meek chose steer wrestling and tie-down roping....
Contract Personnel • Inducted 1999 This ranch-raised Nebraskan started his career as a contestant and formed his own dance band, but found his place in rodeo history behind the microphone. A PRCA member since 1965, Hadley Barrett has announced all of the big rodeos and a great number of the smaller...
Contract Personnel • Inducted 1998 Andy Womack was a successful Phoenix building contractor who developed and built the largest single housing project in Arizona using the assembly line process. His stint as three-time chairman of the Jaycees Rodeo of Rodeos in Phoenix sparked his interest in the sport, where he developed close friendships with clowns Jasbo...
Contract Personnel • Inducted 1997 *Inducted as a pair with Bobby Clark. The Clarks began their rodeo career as competitors — both as tie-down ropers, and Gene in steer wrestling and Bobby in bareback riding. Gene, born March 27, 1926, in Seminole, Okla., quickly moved to the contract side of the sport...
Contract Personnel • Inducted 1997 *Inducted as a pair with Gene Clark. The Clarks began their rodeo career as competitors — both as tie-down ropers, and Gene in steer wrestling and Bobby in bareback riding. Gene, born March 27, 1926, in Seminole, Okla., quickly moved to the contract side of the sport...
Contract Personnel • Inducted 1996 Pete Logan, born Dec. 4, 1915, in Junction, Ill., had been a radio announcer for 10 years when he responded to an ad in Hoof and Horns magazine. The ad read, “Wanted: Announcer for Black Hills Roundup, July 4.” He got the job even though he...
