ProRodeo Sports News - April 6, 2018

PRCA NOTES

From left, bull rider Billy Quillan scatters as bullfighters Zachary Call and Jimmy Lee distract 4L & Diamond S Rodeo’s Super Scott at Cave Creek (Ariz.) Rodeo Days, March 23. Not Clowning Around Greg Westfall photo

BRIEFS PRCA Rodeo Camp April 14 The next PRCA Rodeo Camp will be April 14 in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. The camp will run from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. (MT). Registration is required at http:// www.prorodeo.com/prorodeo/rodeo/youth-rodeo. Rodeo Clown Reunion set The Historic Fort Worth Stockyards will be the scene for the next Rodeo Clown Reunion, July 27-29. July 28 is the National Day of the Cowboy. The Fort Worth Stockyards Coliseum is celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the first indoor rodeo held there. There are usually 18 states repre- sented, as well as Canada, and the honorees range in age of 50 to 92. The honorees will don their old costumes and familiar makeup and sign autographs for spectators at the rodeo and other events, includ- ing a parade, in and around the Stockyards. For more information, contact Chairman Gail Woerner at rodeogal@airmail.net or 512.426.8668. ABC Pro Rodeo back in 2019 According to KCBD TV, an NBC affiliate in Lubbock, Texas, this won’t be the last year of the

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ABC Pro Rodeo, regardless of the May 5 city vote to abandon the Lubbock Municipal Auditorium and Coliseum. City Council District 3 Representative Jeff Griffith said the city council has an agreement with Texas Tech University in Lubbock that the rodeo will be held in the Coliseum in 2019. If the city votes in favor of turning the Coliseum over to Texas Tech on May 5, the university won’t demolish the building until after the 2019 ABC Pro Rodeo. While it isn’t a long-term fix, it buys some time for the American Business Club and city of Lubbock to find a new venue for the event. The 2018 ABC ProRodeo was March 29-31. “We’re going to have to hope our timetable is good, it’s never perfect, but we are dedicated,” Griffith told KCBD TV. “There’s an ad hoc committee in place today to go forward and study and look at a dirt event center that is made for rodeo. The Coliseum is not made for rodeo. It’s adapted. We need a logistical place that has much more acreage.” As of April 2, there was no exact timeline for a dirt event center, but pending the city vote on May 5, Griffith is confident things are headed in the right direction.

AMOS MICHEL MARTIN Born March 28 to five-time Wrangler National Finals Rodeo

qualifying steer wrestler Casey

Martin and his wife, Shawna, of Sulphur, La., a boy, Amos

Martin

Michel. Amos weighed 7 pounds, 15 ounces, and was 201/2 inches long. This is the couple’s eighth child.

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