ProRodeo Sports News - April 29, 2022

SHORT ROUND

After surgery, bull rider Mauney ready for another NFR run Back on the Trail

B ull rider J.B. Mauney is returning to PRCA action. Mauney will make his season debut at the Helotes (Texas) Festival Association Rodeo, April 29, and then compete at the 44th George Paul Memorial Division 1 Xtreme Bulls April 30 in Del Rio, Texas. Mauney hasn’t competed since failing to register a score on Big Rafter’s Resistol’s Cliff Hanger in Round 10 of the 2021 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo presented by Teton Ridge, Dec. 11 in Las Vegas. Mauney battled through injuries during his Wrangler NFR debut, which resulted in him having surgery on his right groin Feb. 22 in Philadelphia, Pa. “I hurt the groin at the NFR but come to find out it had been an injury I had for years,” said Mauney, 35. “They had to reattach an abductor and they dug a big chunk of bone out that was about three inches long and a half an inch wide. When I partially tore my groin in Vegas where that muscle balled up it was right on top of it. When I was riding, it was pushing that bone. It (the bone) was right up against the nerve and the main artery running through my leg. (Dr.) Tandy (Freeman) said it had been there for years. In 2021, Mauney finished 12th in the PRCA | RAM World Standings with $146,466. He split the Round 1 win with an 87.5-point ride on Painted Pony Championship Rodeo’s Cocktail Diarrhea.

PRCA ProRodeo photo by Rod Connor Bull rider J.B. Mauney acknowledges the sellout crowd at the Thomas & Mack Center after splitting the Round 1 win at the 2021 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo presented by Teton Ridge.

Longtime stock contractor Dorenkamp passes

Longtime stock contractor Fred Dorenkamp, who gave his heart and soul to the sport of ProRodeo, passed away April 17. He was 90. Fred Dorenkamp and his wife, Norma, 89, operated the Dorenkamp Rodeo Co. from 1950-93, and received the Donita Barnes Contract Personnel Lifetime Achievement Award on Dec. 4, 2013, at the South Point Hotel, Spa & Casino in Las Vegas. “This award tops it all,” Fred said at the time.

he was going to do it. My dad’s dad was not a cowboy at all. He didn’t grow up in it at all. His dad homesteaded on their place in Holly, and they used to gather cattle and sheep on foot. They finally got some horses and dad and his brothers learned to ride and that’s how they gathered cattle. In the 1950s, when the drought was so bad dad had to find another way to make money.” Scott is the PRCA’s Livestock Program & Government Relations Manager. “Dad rode barebacks and broncs and did some

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“We never dreamed about winning it. We’ve been involved with rodeo all our lives in about every phase of it. We’ve worked for nearly everybody’s business and we finally got a chance to run our own.” The Dorenkamps live in Holly in Southeast Colorado. “Honest,” said Scott Dorenkamp, Fred’s son when asked to describe his father. “If he told you he would do something

bull riding and steer wrestled,” Scott said. The Dorenkamps – Fred and Norma – received numerous honors; two of the highlights were when their prize horses – Mindy won the NFR Bareback Horse of the Year in 1990, and Satan’s Skoal was named PRCA Bareback Horse of the Year in 1991.

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