PublicationProRodeo Sports News - February 22, 2019

Rodeo Corpus Christi lineup announced announced its Rodeo Corpus Christi (Texas) Concert Series lineup. Each of the four Rodeo Corpus Christi performances will feature national recording artists April 25-28. The 2019 Lineup is: Lee Brice (April 25), Pat Green (April 26), Eli Young Band (April 27) and Ramon Ayala y sus Bravos del Norte (April 28). Season tickets can be purchased at www.BucDays.com or at the American Bank Center Box Office. Individual tickets go on sale March 1. Ticket prices range from $20-$50 and include the rodeo and concert. Scooters from Scooter program underway Scooter, who won the last two PRCA | AQHA Horse of the Year honors for steer wrestling, finished his 2018 PRCA season by helping guide Tyler Waguespack to the world championship. Scooter’s owners Tyler Pearson and Kyle Irwin finished sixth and 12th, respectively, in the 2018 PRCA | RAM World Standings. “Scooter had an amazing year,” Pearson said in a press release. “He has blessed Kyle and I more than we could ever imagine. We wanted to pay it forward. We decided to donate Scooter’s $5,000 Horse of the Year check (in 2018). Then we chal- lenged our sponsors as well and have raised $19,500 to donate to Watering Seeds Organization.” Watering Seeds Organization creates rehabilitation and wellness opportunities for individuals with disabilities. With this money, those with disabilities will be given scooters for mobility. The Buccaneer Commission

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Kids chase down a calf during the calf scramble at the San Angelo (Texas) Rodeo, Feb. 9. On the Loose

Clown of Year Justin Rumford undergoes knee surgery Justin Rumford, the PRCA Clown of the Year every year since 2012, is sidelined after having left knee surgery. The surgery was performed by Dr. Chris Miller in Wichita, Kan., Feb. 7. Rumford is planning to return to the arena for Rodeo Austin (Texas), which begins March 16. Rumford, who also won the Coors Man in the Can award in 2013, 2015 and 2018, injured the knee Jan. 26 while performing at the National Western Stock Show and Rodeo in Denver. He went on to perform at Rodeo Rapid City, Jan. 25 through Feb. 2. “I had an MRI, and when I got home from Rapid City (S.D.)

my orthopedic surgeon (Miller) looked at the MRI and said we have to fix this right away because if we wait until the fall there will be nothing left to fix,” Rumford said. “I blew my whole left knee out, the ACL, MCL and meniscus. At Denver, I was doing a new clown act with a miniature fighting bull. I jumped him, and I was fighting him, and I was making some rounds. I went to throw a back fake and when I did I stepped in a hole (in the arena dirt at the Denver Coliseum). When I stepped in the hole, I hurt my knee.” Rumford, 38, said he will walk and talk and do his acts that don’t involve jumping at Rodeo Austin. “I just will not be able to work the barrel for a while,” he said. “I still have a lot of acts I can do without having to run. I’m pretty much going to do everything I usually do except work the barrel. I think by mid-April I should be back to my old self. They said the surgery was really good. I have been going to therapy, and I have a great team behind me. My physical therapist is amazed at how strong my legs are and how much stuff I have already been able to do. I plan on clowning for a long time. I’m going to come back stronger than ever.” Rumford said he blew out his right knee steer wrestling at the Greeley (Colo.) Stampede in 2004.

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