Past Champions

Clem McSpadden

• 1946—Member of team winning first NIRA Rodeo at Cameron College in Lawton, Oklahoma
• 1954 – 1972 Oklahoma State Senator
• 1960-? NFR Rodeo Announcer
• 1967 – 1984 NFR General Manager
• 1973-1975 – US Representative
• 1974 Ran for Governor of Oklahoma
• 1974 – Gave Reba McIntyre the opportunity to sing the National Anthem at the NFR in OKC
• 1990 Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame Inductee
• 1986 PRCA Announcer of the Year
• 1998 Ben Johnson Award from the Cowboy Hall of Fame
• Rodeo Historical Society Inductee
• Oklahoma Hall of Fame Inductee
• Will Roger’s nephew
• Former President of the PRCA

Eldon Dudley

• 1949 NIRA National Calf Roping Champion
• 1975 Cheyenne Frontier Days All-Around Cowboy
• 1977 PRCA Texas Circuit Steer Roping Champion
• Texas Cattle Feeders Board of Directors member
• 1977 Dodge National Circuit Finals Steer Roping Champion

Dick Barrett

• 1951 NIRA National Bareback Champion
• 1951 NIRA National All-Around Men’s Team Champion
• 1951 NIRA National Steer Wrestling Runner Up (2nd Place)
• 1952 NIRA National All-Around Men’s Team Champion
• 1952 NIRA National Bareback Riding Champion
• 1952 NIRA National Calf Roping Runner Up (2nd Place)
• 1952 NIRA National Ribbon Roping Runner Up (2nd Place)
• 1952 NIRA National Steer Wrestling 3rd Place (just behind Eldon Dudley who was competing for Hardin-Simmons University, TX at the time)
• 1953 NIRA National Ribbon Roping Champion

Joe Chase

• Rodeoed at OSU before transferring to Hardin-Simmons University, TX where he won the 1952 & 1953 National Saddle Bronc Championships
• 1954 NIRA National Saddle Bronc 4th Place

R.A. Lotspeich

• 1953 NIRA National Bull Riding Runner Up (2nd Place)

Don Fedderson

• 1953 National NIRA Steer Wrestling Champion
• 1959 PRCA Steer Wrestling Champion
• 1960 Don and Bill Fedderson – first siblings to make NFR together

Walt Garrison

• 1966-1967 Dallas Cowboys Football All Star
• 1966-1974 Dallas Cowboy Football player
• OSU Football player
• Inductee into the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame
• US Smokeless Tobacco Marketing

Judy Campbell

• OSU Rodeo Queen 1958-1959

Sonny Ehr

• 1970 National PRCA Steer Wrestling Champion
• 1965 North Dakota Rodeo Association Steer Wrestling Champion
• 1959 National High School Rodeo Association National Calf Roping Champion before coming to OSU the next year.
• 2001 Inductee into the North Dakota Cowboy Hall of Fame
• 1978 PRCA Badland Circuit Steer Wrestling Champion
• 1991 Roughrider Rodeo Senior Breakaway Roping Champion
• 2002 North Dakota Rodeo Association Washburn Rodeo Breakaway Roping Winner

Wade L. Hudspeth

• 2000 NIRA National Team Roping 8th place

Clark R Bradley

• 1999-2000 CNFR Qualifier in Tie Down Roping
• 2000 NIRA National Team Roping 8th place
• 2002 Prairie Circuit Tie Down Champion
• 2002 Prairie Circuit All Around Champion
• 2004 NFR Qualifier in Tie Down Roping
• Six Time AQHA World Champion

Trent Creager

• 2002 NIRA National Calf Roping Champion

Janae Ward

• 2003 World Champion
• 2003 NFR Champion
• 2003 NFR High money earner
• 2003 NIRA National Barrel Racing 5th Place
• 2002 NIRA National Barrel Racing Runner Up (2nd Place)
• 2002 USSTC Summer Tour Champion (Barrel Racing)
• 2002 NFR Qualifier
• 2001 NIRA (College) Barrel Racing National Champion
• Led Oklahoma State University Women’s Rodeo Team to
• 1st National Team Championship
• 2001 NFR Qualifier
• 2001 NIRA Central Plains Region Champion Barrel Racer
• IPRA Finals Qualifier (2 yrs.)
• 1998 – 1999 Oklahoma High School Rodeo Assn. Champion Barrel Racer
• 1999 National High School Barrel Racing Champion
• 1999 – 2000 International Youth Rodeo Barrel Racing Champion
• 2000 International Youth Rodeo All-Around Champion

Julia D Warner

• 2001 NIRA National Barrel Racing Runner Up (2nd Place)

Gretchen BenBenek

• 2001 NIRA National Barrel Racing 8th Place
• 2002 NIRA National Barrel Racing 6th Place
• 2003 NIRA National Barrel Racing 10th Place
• 2004 NIRA National Barrel Racing 3rd Place

Audra Magee

• 2004 NIRA (College) Women’s All-Around National Champion
• 2004 NIRA National Breakaway Roping 9th Place

Paul E Magdeburg

• 2002 NIRA National Calf Roping 3rd Place

JR Magdeburg

• 2006 National Finals Steer Roping Qualifier
• 2005 Third Place Resistol Rookie race
• 2004 IFR Calf Roping Average Champion

Candice Foster

• 2006 and 2007 Collegiate National Finals Qualifier (Barrel Racing)

Karen Roberts

• Former Miss Rodeo Oklahoma

Gary Walker

• Prominent horse trainer

Rachelle Holt

• 2009 NIRA National Finals Qualifier
• 2011 NIRA National Finals Qualifier

Thompson Berryhill

• 2014 Collegiate National Finals 6th Place (Team Roping)
• 2015 Central Plains Region Champion Header (Team Roping)