2018 PRCA Media Guide - PRCA Awards

Justin Boots, in recognizing the hundreds of thousands of hours of work that rodeo committee members around the country donate to putting on their local rodeos, has long made a practice of honoring 125 outstanding volunteers around the country through its John Justin Standard of the West program. PRCA rodeos vote on the recipient of Justin’s national award for a committeeperson whose dedication represents the deeds of those thousands of volunteers. In 2017, that award went rodeo director Steven Money of the Spanish Fork (Utah) Fiesta Days Rodeo. Winners of the John Justin Committeeperson of the Year Award include: 1990 Philip Diehl, Pawhuska Elks Rodeo, Pawhuska, Okla. 1991 Cletus Schenk, Red River PRCA Rodeo, Wichita Falls, Texas 1992 Duane Mahlum, Wolf Point (Mont.) Wild Horse Stampede 1993 Homer Carter, Omak (Wash.) Stampede 1994 Hal Littrell, Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo, Colorado Springs, Colo. 1995 Jack W. Saulls, Moses Lake (Wash.) Roundup Rodeo 1996 Leslie Bartschi, Pocatello (Idaho) Frontier Rodeo 1997 Ed Thiele, Omak (Wash.) Stampede 1998 Ken MacRae, Ellensburg (Wash.) Rodeo 1999 Bud Monroe, Heart O’Texas Rodeo, Waco, Texas 2000 Darrel Stromer, Oregon Trail Rodeo, Hastings, Neb. 2001 Kathy Fraser, Corn Palace Stampede, Mitchell, S.D. 2002 Vern Carpenter, Snake River Stampede, Nampa, Idaho 2003 Steve Coleman, St. Paul (Ore.) Rodeo 2004 Mike Lucke, Reno (Nev.) Rodeo 2005 Ronnie Parks, Heart o’Texas Fair and Rodeo (Waco) 2006 Lee Graves, Deke Latham Memorial Rodeo (Kaycee, Wyo.) 2007 Joel Smith, Ellensburg (Wash.) Rodeo 2008 Jim Thompson, Deke Latham Memorial Rodeo (Kaycee, Wyo.) 2009 Russell Erben, Comal County Fair and Rodeo (New Braunfels, Texas) 2010 DeLois Thompson, Marshall (Texas) Pro Rodeo 2011 Julie Graber, Kansas’Largest Night Rodeo (Pretty Prairie) 2012 TomWeinman, Kansas’Biggest Rodeo (Phillipsburg) 2013 Steve Alder, Ellensburg (Wash.) Rodeo 2014 Bill Stephens, Crossett (Ark.) Riding Club PRCA Rodeo 2015 Mike Mathis, Lufkin (Texas) PRCA Rodeo 2016 Steve Heathman, Coulee City (Wash.) Last Stand Rodeo 2017 Steven Money, Spanish Fork (Utah) Fiesta Days Rodeo John Justin Committeeperson of the Year

After serving as rodeo director of the Spanish Fork (Utah) Fiesta Days Rodeo for 34 years, Steven Money retired in 2017, grateful for the opportunity and hardworking volunteers on the committee. “I am so thankful for the committee that we’ve had,” Money said. “We’ve just had excellent people on our committee who help make it so great. It’s something that I truly loved. It’s going to be very hard to be away from it, but I’m still going to be in contact with people in the rodeo business and help rodeo committees out.” With Money’s leadership, the Spanish Fork Fiesta Days Rodeo, in 2016, became the 24th rodeo to be inducted into the ProRodeo Hall of Fame since the inaugural class in 1979. It also was the first Utah rodeo to be inducted. “With my career coming to an end, I’m just so grateful to receive this award and get recognized for all the hours you put into it,”he said. Money, a Spanish Fork native, has been involved with the Western lifestyle his entire life. “I rodeoed when I was younger, and I just love that passion to compete and (being a rodeo director) was a way to be associated with it,”he said.

PRCA ProRodeo photo by Greg Westfall

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