ProRodeo Sports News - April 20, 2018

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ProRodeo Hall of Fame announces 2018 induction class

BY PSN STAFF T eam roping stars SpeedWilliams and Rich Skelton had no equals from 1997-2004, as each won eight consecutive PRCA world championships.

Minick, rodeo notableWalt Garrison and the committee for the Black Hills Roundup in Belle Fourche, S.D., as the PRCA inductees. For the second time in the history of the ProRodeo Hall of Fame – 2017 being the first – barrel racers from the Women’s Professional Rodeo Association (WPRA) will be among the class of inductees. Their class includes Kristie Peterson, Billie McBride and a WPRA equine inductee, French Flash Hawk (Bozo).

Now, the duo will be immortalized in rodeo

history.

Williams

Skelton

Williams and Skelton headline a 10-member, 2018 induction class for the ProRodeo Hall of Fame. The ceremony takes place Aug. 4 at the ProRodeo Hall of Fame in Colorado Springs, Colo. Williams and Skelton join gold buckle winner Deb Greenough (bareback riding, 1993), contract personnel recipient Leon Coffee, stock contractor Billy

WILLIAMSAND SKELTON were the pinnacle of team roping for nearly a decade. “I remember going to the high school finals and stopping in the ProRodeo Hall of Fame and I was blown away with the history of ProRodeo,”

Speed Williams (right) and Rich Skelton compete at the 1997 National Finals Rodeo. They would go on to win their first of eight straight world titles. PRCA ProRodeo file photo by Mike Copeman

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