ProRodeo Sports News - April 30, 2021

SHORT ROUND 2020 ProRodeo Hall of Famers to be honored in July The In Crowd

T he ProRodeo Hall of Fame Class of 2020 Induction Weekend will be July 15- 17 and run in conjunction with the Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo in Colorado Springs, Colo., the ProRodeo Hall of Fame and Museum of the American Cowboy announced April 28. The induction ceremony – honoring Cody Ohl, Grated

“It is so great to be able to plan and finally hold this event to induct this amazing class of rodeo legends,” Hall of Fame Director Kent Sturman said. “We are so thankful that the COVID restrictions are easing up in the state of Colorado and El Paso County, which will allow us to host the event here in Colorado Springs. We are hopeful that restrictions will

Coconut, Butch Kirby, Jim Sutton Jr., Sunni Deb Backstrom, Randy Witte, the Ellensburg Rodeo and Martha Josey – will be Saturday, July 17. The golf tournament, a fundraiser for the Hall of Fame, will kick off the weekend at Cheyenne Shadows Golf Course on Thursday, July 15, while the Cowboy Ball will be Friday, July 16. The Class of 2020 was named last year, but because of restrictions surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, inductions were postponed. Now, those eight selections will be honored this summer.

ease up more as we move closer to the dates so that our Induction Weekend this year will look very similar to events of the past.” The Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo is scheduled for July 14-17. The rodeo at the Norris Penrose Event Center in Colorado Springs was postponed due to the pandemic in 2020. The rodeo, which paid out more than $280,000 in 2019, draws the best cowboys and cowgirls in North America. More information, including hotel info, ticket sales and details for the golf tournament fundraiser, is available at https://bit.ly/3nfY8U1 .

Driggers and Nogueira back together again Team ropers Kaleb Driggers and Junior Nogueira, who separated in May 2020, have joined forces again. The Driggers-Nogueira reunion began at RFD-TV’s The American Semi-Finals, and they’ve been moving forward since. “I’m happy to be back with

Nogueira roped with Cody Snow from late May of last season until this March. They qualified for the 2020 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo and finished 12th in their respective heeler and header world standings. When Nogueira departed, Snow joined Wesley Thorp, whom Driggers had been roping with. In 2019, Snow teamed with Thorp to win the average

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Kaleb, and we are working hard to get everything back together,” Nogueira said. Nogueira is fourth in the heeling PRCA | RAM World Standings, while Driggers is 14th in heading. Nogueira received a huge boost in the standings when he teamed with Dustin Egusquiza to earn $21,706 at the RAM National Circuit Finals Rodeo in Kissimmee, Fla., April 9-10. “That was my first time at the RAM Finals, and it was an amazing rodeo, and that money I won there helped a lot,” Nogueira said. “Kaleb and I placed third in the average last weekend in Clovis, and we just want to get back in rhythm.”

at the NFR. The duo won Round 7 and placed in six rounds to finish with 43.8 seconds on nine head, and Thorp won the team roping heeling world title. Nogueira became the first Brazilian world champion in PRCA history when he won the all-around title after earning $231,728. He was second in heeling that season with $230,284. Driggers and Nogueira tied the team roping world record with a 3.3-second run at the 2017 NFR. They have won six rounds at the Finals since 2017 – Rounds 1 and 9 in 2017, Round 8 in 2018, and Rounds 8 (split the win), 9 and 10 in 2019.

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