Team Roping • Inducted 2018 Ken “Speed” Williams was born and raised in Jacksonville, Fla. He started roping before he could walk, and by the time he was 14 he had a bank account full of winnings. Williams bought his PRCA card in 1988 and competed in the Southeastern Circuit calf...
Team Roping • Inducted 2018 Rich Skelton bought his PRCA card in 1986 and at the time of his induction, he was still competing. He made his first National Finals Rodeo appearance in 1990 heeling for Tee Woolman. When Woolman decided to slow down in late 1997, Skelton joined with header...
Barrel Racing • Inducted 2018 Kristie Peterson’s rise to stardom in the Women’s Professional Rodeo Association started in 1989, when she was working as a captain at her local sheriff’s department overseeing the jail and dispatchers but decided to try her hand at professional rodeo after earning titles in youth and...
Stock Contractor • Inducted 2018 Billy Minick began his professional rodeo career in 1959, enlisting in the Rodeo Cowboys Association after winning titles in both high school and college. Minick qualified for the National Finals Rodeo as a bull rider in 1966. In 1968, Minick purchased the Harry Knight Rodeo Company...
Barrel Racing • Inducted 2018 Billie Hinson McBride first saw barrel racing at an open rodeo event in 1937 and decided at 10 years old that it was the path she wanted to travel. McBride was a charter member of the Girls Rodeo Association (GRA), formed in her hometown of San...
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...
Notable • Inducted 2018 Walt Garrison was two types of cowboy, a fullback with the Dallas Cowboys and a ProRodeo competitor. Garrison grew up in Lewisville, Texas, where he spent his youth riding horses and steers. He competed in high school rodeo in bareback riding, bull riding, calf roping and steer...
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...
Livestock • Inducted 2018 With his big blazed face French Flash Hawk, known as Bozo, was one of the most recognized athletes in ProRodeo in his time, a champion in the arena who touched off a revolution in barrel racing bloodlines. Purchased as a 2-year-old by Kristie Peterson for $400, Bozo stormed...
Belle Fourche, South Dakota • Inducted 2018 The Black Hills Roundup started when 15,000 people gathered in a field in Belle Fourche, S. D., to raise money for World War I in 1918. At the time, the population of Belle Fourche was 1,410. The next year marked the first time the...
