ProRodeo Sports News - April 15, 2022

IN MEMORIAM BUD MUNROE Hall of Famer passes

Munroe was 1986 world champion BY TRACY RENCK S addle bronc rider Bud Munroe, a ProRodeo Hall of Famer, passed away April 9 at Ascension Providence Hospital inWaco, Texas. He was 70. Munroe was inducted into the ProRodeo Hall of Fame in Colorado Springs, Colo., in 2007, and his wife Jimmie, a world champion barrel racer and president of the WPRA, was inducted into the ProRodeo Hall of Fame in 2019. Munroe and his wife were married for 41 years and have a daughter, Tassie. The couple resides in Valley Mills, Texas. Bud received coaching from ProRodeo Hall of Fame saddle bronc riders Bill Smith and Mel Hyland. With that type of guidance Munroe was a quick study and through his talent and hard work qualified for the National Finals Rodeo 12 times – 1977-88. The highlight of his riding career was winning the 1986 PRCA Saddle Bronc Riding World Championship over fellow ProRodeo Hall of Famer Clint Johnson. Munroe talked about his rodeo career in an Aug. 12, 2014, article in the Daily Record in Ellensburg, Wash., when he inducted into the Ellensburg Rodeo Hall of Fame. “Rodeo is just a natural extension of the Western way of life,” Munroe said. “It’s a very pure thing, just you and the animal. I think it’s ingrained in you, if you come up around it so much that it’s a part of who you are, and you never lose the love for it. At least I never have.”

PRCA ProRodeo file photos Bud Munroe had a 78-point ride on B-J’s Skoal Bobbie Sox to finish fourth in Round 6 of the 1987 National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas.

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