PRORODEO Sports - April 24, 2026 Digital Edition

All Pete Carr photos for this feature story are by 4x PRCA Photographer of the Year Click Thompson

I’d buddy up to the foreman and I’d be like, ‘Hey, I’ve got to go.’ They all liked to rodeo so they’re like, ‘Yeah, go do good.’ Carr competed in bareback riding for almost 20 years in PRORODEO. He also founded Resource Commercial Inc., a general contracting firm, in 1993. To say his business venture was successful is a gross understatement. “I obviously was working on building a business. I kind of got out of the drywall business and started general con tracting. I didn’t have any money and you don’t really have any money in the GC business,” Carr said. “I knew enough about being the first guy on the job to the last guy on the job. I saw probably all the trades work all my life, but I didn’t really specifically know how to figure out the service or things like that. But I knew the sequencing, so it was good for GC work. I had an office with a shared copier and all that. I built it over 30 years ago.” Carr’s self-determination was obvious in his youth. He knew college wasn’t an option, but that wasn’t going to derail his ambition to succeed. “I think college is great. I would have loved to go into college, but we didn’t have the financial means. I didn’t have the time. I needed to go to work,” Carr said. “I started a paper route when I was 11. And by the time I was 13, I was delivering 475 papers in the morning, getting up at 4 in the morning when they had the Dallas Morning News, and we

rolled them all. “I’ve always worked. It’s a generational thing. Back then you could go to work when you were young, 15 or 16, people would hire you. I’ve had so many jobs. If I wanted some thing I had to go work for it. So, college really wasn’t an option for me. I think it’s great. A lot of people that work for me, everybody’s got their diplomas in their office. I used to look at them and go, ‘Man, I wish I had one of those.’ But it all worked out. I wouldn’t do it any differently.” FROM COMPETITOR TO STOCK CONTRACTOR With his business booming, Carr never lost his love for rodeo. He got involved in the stock contractor business – starting Pete Carr Pro Rodeo, which was established to produce PRCA rodeos and provide high-caliber livestock throughout the United States. “When I stopped entering rodeos, I was in my early 30s. I figured out when I came home and started going to work, I didn’t really know anybody because I lived in this big town. But every week I’d leave and everybody I knew was either in a rodeo, at a rodeo or putting on a rodeo,” Carr said. “So, I was like, ‘Hey, maybe I can get involved in that.’ I started out helping a buddy of mine buy horses and bulls and kind of supplementing some of his work. “It just kind of went from there, and then I got into it. It’s like anything else, once you get into it, it’s kind of hard

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