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...
Stock Contractor • Class of 2020 James Sutton, Jr. could have chosen a very different path at the end of his college career. The young South Dakotan was drafted by the Minneapolis Lakers and he attended their preseason training camp. However, he believed following his father and grandfather in the ranching...
Tie-Down Roping • Class of 2020 Cody Ohl blazed into the ProRodeo ranks in 1994 by winning Rookie of the Year and his first trip to the National Finals Rodeo. The young Texas roper had been planning his career since he was 15 and winning National High School Rodeo awards. It would...
Bull Riding • Class of 2020 Gary William Kirby, better known as Butch, started his rodeo career at age four when he joined his brothers in a trick riding troupe led by his mother, Mildred. By 16, he had changed his specialty to bull riding. Kirby credits the agility and balance...
Barrel Racing • Class of 2020 Martha Josey qualified for the National Finals Rodeo 11 times on six different horses across four consecutive decades. She won the WPRA barrel racing world title in 1980 on Sonny Bit O’ Both, the same year the duo also won the AQHA World Championship, a...
