Contract Personnel • Inducted 2023 Kenny Clabaugh has had many names over his nearly forty-year career as a rodeo pick-up man. “The Invisible Man” and “Mr. Smooth” have been two of the most popular. Clabaugh has earned these monikers due to his uncanny ability to be in the right place at...
Contract Personnel • Class of 2022 Raised on his family’s Appaloosa horse ranch near Tickfaw, LA, Rick Young did not set out to become a rodeo clown and bull fighter. He really wanted to be a colligate football player after earning All-State accolades in both football and basketball. However, the 5’9”...
Contract Personnel • Class of 2020 Sunni Deb Backstrom grew up with a stopwatch in her hand. No doubt encouraged by her mother Ellen, a three-time National Finals Rodeo Secretary and first woman to sit on the PRCA Board of Directors. At age 13, Backstrom made her debut as a rodeo...
Contract Personnel • Inducted 2019 Tommy Lucia’s rodeo career started at the age of 15 riding bareback horses and bulls. When a friend was injured, he filled in as the clown and bull fighter. At 20, he made the switch to fulltime bull fighting. At the urging of George Doak, Lucia...
Contract Personnel • Inducted 2018 Luke Leon Coffee grew up around horses, rodeo, and football. He competed as a junior rodeo contestant in bull riding, bareback riding, steer wrestling, and calf roping. He joined the U.S. Army after high school and served for three years. After encouragement from friend and bullfighter Michael...
Contract Personnel • Inducted 2017 Prior to his induction into the ProRodeo Hall of Fame in 2017, Randy Corley had been selected PRCA Announcer of the Year 12 times (1984, 1990-96, 1998, 2003, 2011, and 2015). He also had been an announcer at the National Finals Rodeo 16 times. Originally a bareback riding...
Contract Personnel • Inducted 2016 Phil Gardenhire, a five-time announcer at the National Finals Rodeo, joined the PRCA in 1984 and was widely known for helping reintroduce the “mounted announcer” to ProRodeo while working astride his handsome paint horse. He announced the NFR in 1985, 1987-89 and 1993, and also worked the Clem...
Contract Personnel • Inducted 2015 *Inducted as a pair with Byron Hendricks. The Hendricks Brothers – identical twins Byron and Lee – entertained rodeo audiences from 1940 into the mid-1960s, with a variety of acts that included daredevil Roman riding, bridle-less jumps, dancing horses and dogs. The Flying Twins Act, with Byron and...
Contract Personnel • Inducted 2015 *Inducted as a pair with Lee Hendricks. The Hendricks Brothers – identical twins Byron and Lee – entertained rodeo audiences from 1940 into the mid-1960s, with a variety of acts that included daredevil Roman riding, bridle-less jumps, dancing horses and dogs. The Flying Twins Act, with Byron and Lee...
Contract Personnel • Inducted 2003 Like many contract performers, Cecil Cornish began his rodeo career riding bucking horses and roping. However, his special ability to train animals and his aptitude for entertaining soon led him to what would be a lifetime of performing as a rodeo specialty act. Born, Sept. 28,...
