ProRodeo Sports News - October 1, 2021

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Donita Barnes Lifetime Achievement Award nominees

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The 2021 nomineees have been announced for the PRCA Donita Barnes Lifetime Achievement Award, which honors contract personnel such as announcers, bullfighters, clowns, specialty acts, secretaries and timers who have been PRCA members for at least 15 years and have committed their lives to the rodeo industry. • Andrea Moon, a secretary and timer from Iron River, Mich., who has been with the PRCA since 1978. She served as the National Finals Rodeo’s secretary in 1990 and was a timer at the 1983 NFR. • Irene Singer, a secretary and timer from Calhan, Colo., who has been with the PRCA since 1970. She served as the NFR secretary in 2004 and was a timer at the 1996 NFR. • The Harris Family. Grant Harris’ grandfather

Police say 20-year-old Jate Frost, of Utah, was driving the Jetta and going east when the car rear- ended a commercial vehicle hauling potatoes. Frost was seriously injured in the crash and flown to a hospital in Washington. A third passenger, 21-year-old Jesse Hopper, who was also from Oklahoma, suffered serious injuries and was taken to OHSU in Portland. All three were bull riders. He also shot behind the scenes in 2017. Connor will be making his first appearance at the NFR. He photographed the NFSR in 2020. Guardipee and Sales were both photographers at the Wrangler NFR in 2020 held in Arlington, Texas. This will be the third consecutive NFR that Guardipee has photographed. Sales also will be making her third appearance as a Wrangler NFR photographer, having shot in 2017 (behind the scenes) and 2020 (in the arena). started producing rodeos in 1930, and in 1955 Grant’s father, Howard, started a weekly rodeo in New Jersey that continues to this day. Grant and Betsy Harris bought Cowtown Rodeo in 1978 and run the weekly rodeo that’s held in Woodstown-Pilesgrove, N.J. Grant has been with the PRCA since 1973, competing in bull riding, team roping and saddle bronc riding. • Jennifer Nicholson, of the Riata Ranch Cowboy Girls, has been with the PRCA since 1990 and lives in Three Rivers, Calif. The Riata Ranch Cowboy Girls have been nominated for Specialty Act of the Year four times (2011, 2013, 2015-16). They performed at the NFR in 1985-89, 1996 and 2014. • Kay Gay is a secretary and timer from Terrell, Texas, who has been with the PRCA since 1964. Doyle will be shooting in the arena at the NFR

The number of National Finals Rodeo team roping qualifications by ProRodeo Hall of Famer Allen Bach, a PRCA record. Bach qualified for the NFR in 1978-96, 1998-2008. $132K The amount of money ($132,484) earned by the winners of the ProRodeo Tour Finale, which took place at California Rodeo Salinas, Sept. 23-26. $579K The payout ($579,249) at the Pendleton (Ore.) Round-Up, a stop on the ProRodeo Tour presented by Pendleton Whisky. The rodeo concluded Sept. 18.

NFR, NFSR photographers announced The PRCA is excited to announce the selections for the 2021 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo photographers. The in-arena photographers will be Phil Doyle and Rod Connor. The behind-the scenes photographers are Clay Guardipee and Roseanna Sales. The Wrangler NFR returns to the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas Dec. 2-11. Click Thompson will shoot the National Finals Steer Roping at the Kansas Star Arena in Mulvane, Kan., Nov. 12-13. photographer can receive. for the second time, the first in 2018.

It will be his first time shooting the NFSR. Shooting the Wrangler NFR or the NFSR is one of the most prestigious honors a ProRodeo

PRCA cowboys involved in fatal auto crash Three contestants from the Pendleton (Ore.)

Roundup were involved in a fatal crash Sept. 16 when the car they were in rear-ended a commercial vehicle, according to Oregon State Police. The crash was reported around 8:15 p.m. (PDT) on Interstate 84 near milepost 193. Police say the right, front passenger in the Volkswagen Jetta, identified as 24-year-old Richard Schleicher from Oklahoma, was killed in the crash.

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