2006 Pace Picante ProRodeo Chute-out Contract Personnel Announced
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - This year’s Pace Picante ProRodeo Chute-out will feature some of the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association’s finest personnel calling the action, protecting the cowboys and entertaining the crowds at the Tulsa Convention Center in Tulsa, Okla., May 13-14.

        With microphones in hand, PRCA announcers Boyd Polhamus of Brenham, Texas, and Roger Mooney of Ellijay, Ga., will let the audience members and contestants know what is going on with each ride and run. This will be Polhamus’ first Pace Picante ProRodeo Chute-out to announce, but his seventh Tour finale overall. Mooney has announced three previous Tour Finales, beginning in 2000 at the Summer Tour Finale in Mesquite, Texas.

        Watching over the cowboys and taking care of the bucking bulls, will be several of PRCA’s top bullfighters and an award-winning barrelman. Frankie “Punkintown” Smith of Easley, S.C., will work his first Pace Series event as a barrelman. PRCA bullfighter Darrell Diefenbach of Azle, Texas, will work his sixth Pace Series event. The Australian-born bullfighter is well known around the professional rodeo circuit having worked the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo five times and the Dodge National Circuit Finals Rodeo twice.

        In the arena with Diefenbach will be PRCA bullfighters Shorty Gorham of San Juan Capistrano, Calif., and Travis Adams of Gary, Texas. Gorham worked his first Wrangler NFR in 2005 after previously working three Pace Series events. Gorham was also selected in 2004 and 2006 to work the Dodge National Circuit Finals Rodeo in Pocatello, Idaho. Adams, 34, will work his first Pace Series event at this year’s Chute-Out.

        Pickup men Jason Bottoms of Corsicana, Texas, and Danny Etbauer of Goodwell, Okla., will bring roughstock contestants safely to the ground and gain control of the high-flying bucking horses. Bottoms worked his first Wrangler NFR in 2005. Etbauer, a former PRCA saddle bronc rider, is the brother of five-time world champion Billy Etbauer and two-time world champion Robert Etbauer.

PRCA secretaries checking in the cowboys and keeping track of results will be Barb Duggan of Canyon, Texas and her daughter, assistant secretary Mikey Duggan. PRCA timers Tonya Lovelace of Waskom, Texas and Cindy Barnes of Sutherland, Iowa, will keep track of the elapsed time in the timed events. They will also ensure that roughstock cowboys make full eight-second rides.

The Pace Chute-out will be preceded by the Dodge Xtreme Bulls Ride Hard Tour on Friday night, May 12 at 8 p.m. CT. The Chute-out will take place on May 13 at 8 p.m. and May 14 at 3 p.m. For more information on the 2006 Pace Picante ProRodeo Chute-out, be sure to check out www.prorodeotour.com.