A rodeo can’t be a rodeo without contestants...

and the Energy Town ProRodeo Committee has set up this page to provide information specifically for the cowboys and cowgirls who enter our rodeo. We want your experience at the Energy Town ProRodeo to be a good one so read on and if there is something more you’d like to know, then let us know!

Performance Times

The Energy Town ProRodeo is held on August 1^st and 2^nd in Gillette, Wyoming.  Performances are at 7:00 P.M. both nights. Steer Roping is held on Thursday, July 31^st at 6:00 P.M. Timed event slack is held on Friday morning, August 1^st at 9:00 A.M. The performances start out with a kid’s Mutton Bustin’ competition. Depending upon the number of our rough stock entries, we may have two sections in the rough stock events.

Location

The Energy Town ProRodeo is held in the Morningside Park Arena at the Cam-Plex Facility in Gillette, Wyoming. Located just off of I-90, take exit 129 and go south on Garner Lake Road approximately 1 mile and turn left on Windmill Drive.

Parking

All rodeo parking is located in the infield of the arena and in the east stall area.

Stalls

Cam-plex is one of the host sites of the National High School Finals Rodeo and has a vast amount of stalls on grounds. The committee provides free stalls for our rodeo contestants, with the only contingency being that rodeo contestants use the stalls on the east side of the infield. The west stalls are reserved for the 4H and FFA kids and their projects.

Hospitality Tent

Let us feed you and your family at our free Hospitality Tent. Located at the north end of the arena, the Hospitality Tent serves hot food at both performances and the steer roping performance and features biscuits and gravy for Friday morning slack. There is also the Neighborhood Barbeque on Saturday, August 2^nd at 5:00 P.M. which is free to the public and contestants are welcome there as well.

Personnel

Barney Sheridan, PRCA rodeo announcer from Arlee, Montana will be calling the action in the Morningside Park arena. Daughter Nikki will be on hand to run the music board and the duo will be sure to keep the rodeo action fast-paced and entertaining. Miss Rodeo Wyoming, Stacey Johnson, will be on hand throughout the rodeo and adds great charm and beauty to the production. J.W. Winklepleck from Strasburg, Colorado will be the barrel man. John Harrison, Soper, Oklahoma is the contract act.

Livestock

Burch Rodeo Company provides top-notch bucking horses and bulls for the Energy Town ProRodeo. Every nod of the head is guaranteed a great ride and every cowboy has a chance to win a paycheck on a Burch animal. The committee contracts our own timed event stock and this year the calves, bull dogging steers and team roping steers have been contracted with Brookman Rodeo Company of Sidney, Montana. The steer roping cattle will come from JR Olson of Greeley, Colorado.

Co-Approvals

The Energy Town ProRodeo is approved in the Mountain States circuit, and co-approved with the Badlands Circuit and the Montana Circuit.

Heartland ProRodeo Series

With the implementation of this new PRCA program, the Energy Town ProRodeo   comes on board as a Heartland ProRodeo Series event. The $500 approval fee is slated to be added to the purse money at the Heartland ProRodeo Series

Championship, scheduled for early October in Waco, Texas.

Tough Enough to Wear Pink Night

Friday, August 1^st is the Energy Town ProRodeo’s Pink Night. We encourage all the contestants to wear pink. In addition, if the fast time or highest score competitor is wearing pink, then they will receive an extra $50 in the cash giveaway. For every person wearing a pink shirt in the audience, the Energy Town ProRodeo committee will donate $1 to a local breast cancer support group.

Cash Giveaway

Each performance, the fast time and highest score, in each of the events, will receive a $100 cash bonus. And new this year, we will award $100 for the fastest time in each of the three go-rounds of the steer roping. It is necessary for the winner of the cash bonus to follow the sponsor flag around the arena to the front of the grandstand to receive the bonus. We will provide a horse for the rough stock contestants.

  Tickets available online at Cam-Plex.com