COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The ProRodeo Hall of Fame has unveiled the new class of inductees who will be enshrined in Colorado Springs on July 13.
Bareback rider Kaycee Feild, who won an event record six PRCA World Championships, highlights the 2024 ProRodeo Hall of Fame class announced Monday.
"I was blessed with a durable body and blessed with my dad as long as I had him (before he passed)," Feild said. "My resiliency, grit, determination all those things played into what I did. I'm kind of at a loss for words because I'm so surprised. I thought I would have five or six years to prepare for this speech."
ProRodeo Hall of Fame 2024 inductees
- Bareback rider Kaycee Feild
- Won PRCA World Championships in 2011-14 and 2020-21
- Team roper Art Arnold
- 1968 RCA World Champion
- Bull rider Blue Stone
- PRCA World Champion in 2001 and 2002
- Stock contractor Sammy Andrews
- Bullfighter Darrell Diefenbach
- Worked National Finals Rodeo 12 times
- J.D. Yates
- Made NFR as a team roping header and heeler
- Bull Mr. T of Burns Rodeo Company
- 1986 PRCA Bull of the Year and Bull of the NFR in 1986 and 1989
- Rodeo committee from the Tri-State Rodeo of Fort, Madison, Iowa
- Barrel racer Marlene (Eddleman) McRae
- 1983 WPRA World Champion
- Barrel racer Jeana Day
- 1974 WPRA World Champion
"This means a lot because there are not a lot of people who get to be (inducted into the ProRodeo Hall of Fame)," Arnold said. "It took a lot of practice and trying to perfect techniques and just watching guys and learning from guys who did it well."
"When I started rodeoing, I didn't wake up that morning and say, 'I wanted to have a Hall of Fame of career," Yates said. "I was blessed to do what I got to do. Anybody that says it isn't a dream come true to get into that (ProRodeo Hall of Fame) are not telling the truth. For me to be put in with the people who are in there is an amazing honor."
The 2024 Ken Stemler Pioneer Award will be awarded to Bob Feist, a contestant and announcer at the 1979 National Finals Steer Roping and 1980 National Finals Rodeo, and founder of the Bob Feist Invitational Team Roping.
The award recognizes those who have provided groundbreaking, innovative ideas and forward-thinking that help the development, advancement and success of the PRCA and or the Hall of Fame and their missions.
To learn more about the Hall of Fame class and the ProRodeo Hall of Fame, visit ProRodeo.com.
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