ProRodeo Sports News - July 10, 2020

SHORT ROUND

T he 2020 Cowboy Christmas run is one saddle bronc rider Dawson Hay would love to forget. Hay, who made his debut at the 2019 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo and finished seventh in the world standings, suffered a subdural hematoma and a fractured skull July 3 at the Black Hills Roundup in Belle Fourche, S.D., after getting bucked off Powder River Rodeo’s Glass Heart. A subdural hematoma is a type of bleeding in which a collection of blood – usually associated with a traumatic brain injury – gathers between the inner layer of the dura mater and the arachnoid mater of the meninges surrounding the brain. Saddle bronc rider suffers skull fracture Hay Sidelined

The Cowboy Channel video of the ride showed Hay getting bucked off early and thrown off the right side of the horse. As Hay was falling to the ground, it appeared Glass Heart’s back right hoof smacked Hay behind the right ear. “I’m not really sure what exactly happened, but I got kicked behind my right ear and it fractured my skull,” said Hay, 21. Hay was taken from the arena on a stretcher and taken to a hospital in nearby Spearfish, S.D.

“I took a flight to California, July 5 to take some time off. When I landed there, they had called me while I was on my flight and told me they had reviewed the CT scans and I had some bleeding in there, the skull was fractured and I needed to get to a hospital right away. I went to a hospital (Kaweah Delta Medical Center in Visalia, Calif.) and had to go into ICU for the rest of the day and night for observation. “They took another scan and kept me in there until they saw that the bleeding had stopped, and I was able to be released July 6.

The doctors told me to get a whole a lot of rest and not do a whole lot of physical activity for a while. They said I would not be able to compete for six to eight weeks because of my fractured skull. Hopefully I can come back in September. I will just have to play it by ear.” Hay was eighth in the July 7 PRCA | RAM World Standings with $35,331. His big payday this season came when he won the Fort Worth (Texas) Stock Show & Rodeo.

Hall of Fame 2020 induction weekend canceled

The ProRodeo Hall of Fame and Museum of the American Cowboy announced July 2 that the Class of 2020 Induction Ceremony scheduled for Aug. 1 in Colorado Springs, Colo., and associated activities would be canceled due to the extreme restrictions placed on events in Colorado from the COVID-19 pandemic. Unfortunately, the Hall would be unable to have the kind of numbers of attendees to truly honor the class as well as have the events be successful and worthy of the honor they are meant to be, according to a press release from the Hall.

Without the ability to have the entire families and many friends of the inductees attend, the Hall made the decision to cancel and move the events to next year. “We did not enter into this very difficult decision lightly,” said Kent Sturman, Director of the ProRodeo Hall of Fame and Museum of the American Cowboy. “None of us wanted to make this decision but it is best under the circumstances.” The ProRodeo Hall of Fame will work to plan a robust and successful event for the 2020 class to be

held in 2021.

ProRodeo Sports News 7/10/2020

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