2020 Media Guide - Awards

Donita Barnes Lifetime Achievement Award

The PRCA award honors contract personnel (such as announcers, bullfighters, clowns, specialty acts, secretaries and timers) who have been PRCA members for at least 15 years and have committed their lives to the rodeo industry, yet received little recognition for their commitment and contributions. The nomination process was open; an external selection committee chose five finalists, and PRCA contract personnel members voted among the finalists.The posthumous recipient of the inaugural Contract Personnel Lifetime Achievement Award was long-time PRCA secretary Donita Barnes, wife of ProRodeo Hall of Fame inductee and PRCA stock contractor Bob Barnes, and mentor to thousands of contestants and others involved with Barnes rodeos. The PRCA renamed the award in her honor in 2012.

Recipients of the Donita Barnes Lifetime Achievement Award: 2011 Donita Barnes 2012 Art and Linda Alsbaugh 2013 Fred and Norma Dorenkamp 2014 Quail Dobbs 2015 Cotton Rosser 2016 Karen Vold 2017 Jim and Julie Sutton 2018 Hadley Barrett 2019 Roy and Virginia Honeycutt

A lifetime of commitment to the rodeo industry earned husband and wife Roy and Virginia Honeycutt the 2019 PRCA Donita Barnes Contract Personnel Lifetime Achievement Award. Virginia, the longtime matriarch of the rodeo-oriented Honeycutt family, passed away Dec. 1, 2019 at age 76. Roy accepted the award at the 2019 PRCA Awards Banquet in Las Vegas before passing away on March 25, 2020 at the age of 82. The couple met in 1963 and were married 55 years. Roy and Virginia started the Honeycutt Rodeo Company in 1976 in Alamosa, Colo. They traveled across the country and the world producing rodeos. Their son, Jerry, now heads the Honeycutt Rodeo Company.“I don’t know what to say,”Roy said.“This is emotional. It is great to receive this honor. This is a big deal.”Since 1976, Honeycutt Rodeo has been one of the few rodeo stock contractors to have been a part of every National Finals Rodeo. Four generations of horses can be seen running the high plains of Honeycutt Rodeo Company in Alamosa.“I teared up this morning when I found out my mom and dad were receiving this award,”Jerry said.“This is cool. They spent their lifetime in the rodeo business, and it was good to them, and they get recognized with this award. We are elated that they are getting this award.”

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