2024 PRORODEO Media Guide

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 2020 Cindy Rosser 2021 Kay Gay 2022 Bronc Rumford 2023 Scott Walton

For his nearly 50 years of involvement in rodeo, Scott Walton was selected as the recipient of the 2023 Donita Barnes Lifetime Achievement Award.

PRCA photo by Clay Guardipee

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2024 PRCA MEDIA GUIDE