Daily Archives: March 10, 2010

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He owns 13 world champion­ships, but would trade in all of them if asked to choose between his two sons and the rodeo.  

That family devotion goes a long way toward describing Shawn Minor’s reign atop the International Pro Rodeo Associ­ation standings. He couldn’t do it, he said, if not for the support of his wife, Tara, and children Kole, 4, and Tate, 2.

And he can’t compete in the Pro Rodeo Cowboys Associa­tion, he said, because the travel to western rodeos would take him away from his family.

“If I had to go hard in the PRCA again, the main thing is I wouldn’t be able to take my wife and kids everywhere,” Minor said. “I’m not going to miss a minute with my boys. It’s not important enough for me to go PRCA to miss something with my kids.”

Minor grew up a PRCA com­petitor from Nebraska, but learned a new side of the rodeo when he met his wife at a IPRA rodeo in Huntsville in 2004 and settled in her world of Camden, Ohio, to start a family.

“I was probably 23, 24 years old before I crossed the Missis­sippi,” said the 34-year-old cow­boy. “I was surprised how many rodeos were here.”…….(read more)