ProRodeo Sports News - September 21, 2018

Nominees unveiled for Donita Barnes Lifetime Achievement Award The following people have been nominated for the 2018 PRCA Donita Barnes Lifetime Achievement Award: Sunni Deb Backstrom, Hadley Barrett, Lecile Harris and Duane Reichert. The purpose of the award is to recog- nize and honor contract personnel members of the PRCA who have dedicated their lives to the rodeo industry through their commitment, hard work and contributions. Past winners of the Donita Barnes Lifetime Achievement Award were Donita Barnes (2011), Art and Linda Alsbaugh (2012), Fred and Norma Dorenkamp (2013), Quail Dobbs (2014), Cotton Rosser (2015), Karen Vold (2016), and Jim and Julie Sutton (2017). Three more cowboys joined the $2 million club during the 2018 summer run. Bareback rider Kaycee Feild, tie-down roper Ryan Jarrett and team roper Chad Masters all surpassed the $2 million mark in career earnings over the last couple months. Of the thousands of cowboys to compete in the PRCA, only 27 had surpassed $2 million in career earnings. Now that number is 30. Tuf Cooper, Cory Petska and Matt Shiozawa also joined the $2 million club earlier this year. Feild was the first of the recent trio to make $2 million. He needed to win $34,800 entering the 2018 season to surpass $2 million, and he accomplished it as of the July 2 PRCA | RAM World Standings. “It’s pretty unreal,” Feild said. “It’s not a goal I ever had, to make $1 million or $2 million. But, to be in the game as long as I have and to have the success I’ve had at such a young age is amazing and humbling.” One week later, Jarrett surpassed $2 million as of the July 9 standings. The Georgia cowboy had needed to earn $41,000 in 2018 to surpass $2 million. Masters needed to earn $88,108 this season to surpass $2 million, and he accom- plished that as of Sept. 17 when money he won at the Pendleton (Ore.) Round-Up was factored in. Feild, Jarrett and Masters surpass $2 million mark

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Clown/barrelman J.J. Harrison helps show why Cody Cabral is known as the Flyin’ Hawaiian at the Lewiston (Idaho) Rodeo, Sept. 6.

Keith Martin named 2018 Legend of ProRodeo ProRodeo Hall of Famer Keith Martin, who was inducted as a rodeo notable in 2011, has been named the 2018 Legend of ProRodeo. Martin will be honored at the 11th annual Wrangler Gold Buckle Gala at the South Point Grand Ballroom in Las Vegas, Dec. 3. “When you look at the list of people who have made that, you think, ‘Gee-whiz, I’m not in that category,’” said Martin, who served on the ProRodeo Hall of Fame Board of Trustees for more than 10 years. “It just means a lot to me, and to be in the same category with those other folks, I’m happy and humbled more than anything.” As executive director and chief executive officer of the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo, Martin set the bar for all rodeo committees when San Antonio became the first $1 million regular- season rodeo in 2007. At the same time, he was pushing ProRodeo toward a financially secure future in his role as interim CEO and PRCA Commissioner, which he did free of charge. “I would fly back and forth and never charged the PRCA a dime for that,” Martin said. “We got things straightened out and money back in the

bank (for the PRCA). We had an awful lot of help, it wasn’t a one-man job by any means.” Martin started with the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo as a vol- unteer in 1969, joined the executive committee in 1984 and became presi-

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dent in 1989, igniting a period of unprecedented growth and success. San Antonio has been voted the PRCA’s Large Indoor Rodeo Committee of the Year every year since 2005. “I started when I was 22 years old, and I’m 71 years old now, and I guess it’s because of the way I was raised that I volunteer,” Martin said, adding that he grew up ranching with his family. “It’s a very family-oriented business, families participate and come to the rodeos. It’s a very wholesome and patriotic sport.” In his time on the PRCA Board of Directors and as interim commissioner in 2007-08, Martin assisted the PRCA staff in developing a budgeting system, and also worked to develop commu- nication opportunities among the association’s membership.

$36,317,022 MONEYWON BY PRCA COWBOYS SO FAR IN 2018

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