Pam Minick

There is no doubt that Pam Minick has broken down many barriers as a woman in the Western industry. From being Miss Rodeo America, Women’s World Champion Breakaway Roper, multi-time Women’s National Finals Team Roping qualifier, the first woman to announce a major pro rodeo, past president of the WPRA, to a successful businesswoman and...

It’s no secret that Pam Minick is one of the great women of Texas, but now she has her name on an award that says so. At 19, she planned to attend University of Nevada Las Vegas but soon won the title of Miss Rodeo America. She was the youngest person ever to hold this...

There is no doubt that Pam Minick has broken down many barriers as a woman in the Western industry. From being Miss Rodeo America, Women’s World Champion Breakaway Roper, multi-time Women’s National Finals Team Roping qualifier, the first woman to announce a major pro rodeo, past president of the WPRA, to a successful businesswoman and...

Twenty-seven years ago, a first-grader wrote the following on a scrap of now-faded lined notepaper: “When I grow up I want to be in rodeos all over the world and a mom and Miss America and a wife and a singer and a model and a baby sitter and a farmer and have a ranch...