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...
Team Roping • Class of 2022 Bobby Harris always knew he was going to be a World Champion Roper. He started by becoming the youngest Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association Steer Roping Rookie of the Year in 1978 at the age of 15. His first professional title would come four years later...
Rodeo Committee • Class of 2022 Started in September 1921 by Homer C. Stokes, Nebraska’s Big Rodeo has celebrated the Spirit of the West ever since. The rodeo was held in conjunction with the Garfield County Fair in Burwell. That first year the committee paid a new pair of spurs and...
Barrel Racing • Class of 2022 Ardith Bruce joined the Girls Rodeo Association (GRA) now the Women’s Professional Rodeo Association (WPRA) in 1960 reaching the pinnacle of the sport in 1964 when she won the world title aboard a horse known as Red, registered as Shaws Kingwood Snip. That same year,...
Rodeo Committee • Class of 2020 Nestled in the center of Washington State in the Kittitas Valley, Ellensburg has become one of the top destinations for cowboys and cowgirls near the end of the regular PRCA season. The rodeo started in 1923 when local businessmen, farmers, ranchers, and townsmen began to...
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...
All-Around • Inducted 2022 Trevor Brazile always knew that he wanted to be known as a great All-Around Cowboy. After 26 World Titles, it seems that he has accomplished that goal. Since the time he was a young boy, he had a rope in his hand. He practiced at every opportunity...
Stock Contractor • Class of 2022 Jake Beutler, RCA card number 1320, was noted as one of the great personalities of the professional rodeo world. In 1929, he joined his brothers Elra and Lynn in creating and running the Beutler Brothers Rodeo Company. The company started when their father, John, bought...
Livestock • Class of 2020 G-65 Grated Coconut is a testament to the Born to Buck Breeding program of the Calgary Stampede Ranch. His mother, Coconut Roll, was a ten-time National Finals Rodeo qualifier. His sire, Wyatt Earp of Northcott Rodeo, was voted Saddle Bronc Horse of the National Finals Rodeo...
Notable • Class of 2020 Randy Witte always had an affinity for rodeo but didn’t get a chance to participate in the sport till he went to Colorado State University, where he majored in technical journalism and found the CSU rodeo club. He was befriended by Jerome Robinson, a sophomore who...
