Meet the entire roster of Resistol Rookie of the year award recipients in the barrel racing in the Women’s Professional Rodeo Association.
The prestigious Resistol Rookie of the Year title is awarded at the close of the WPRA season and presented during the National Finals Rodeo to the barrel racer who wins the most money that year and is a first-year cardholder in the WPRA.
WPRA Resistol Rookie of the Year winners
Choate qualified for the 2022 NFR and broke the rookie season earnings record with $182,970.62 on the year.
2020 Paige Jones
2019 Carly Taylor
2018 Jimmie Smith
2017 Taci Bettis
2016 Cayla (Melby) Small
2014 Sarah Rose McDonald
2013 Taylor Jacob
Not only is Jacob a former Resistol Rookie of the Year and NFR qualifying barrel racer, Jacob (now Hanchey) is the first and only woman who also qualified for the National Finals of Breakaway Roping and has made multiple trips.
2011 Lee Ann Rust
2010 Lindsey Ewing
2009 Kelli Tolbert
2008 Sydni Blanchard
2007 Julie Erkamaa
2006 Audrey Ridgeway
2005 Chani Payne
2004 Sabrina Lay
Brittany Pozzi (now Tonozzi) is in the history books as the first and only barrel racer to enter the National Finals Rodeo in the No. 1 position as a barrel racing rookie in the WPRA in 2003.
2002 Jill Besplug
2001 Connie Morris
2000 Gloria Freeman
1999 Jodi Hollingworth
1998 Shelle Shaw
1997 Peyton Raney
1996 Trula Truitt
1995 Ramona Scott
1994 Mindy Schueneman
1993 JoAnn Middleton
1992 Sharon Smith
1991 Donna Kennedy
1990 Melody Smith
1989 Charlotte Schmidt
1988 Vana Beissinger
1987 Lana Merrick-Hemsted
1986 Laura Farley
1985 Tacy Cates-Johnson
1984 Charmayne James
1983 Sherry Elms
1982 Kathy Spears
1981 Lee Ann Guilkey
1980 Wanda Cagliari
1979 Lynn Manning-Flynn
1978 Carol Goostree
1977 Jackie Jo Perrin
1976 Darla Higgins
1975 Lynne Mayes
1974 Colette Graves-Baier
1973 Cheryl Luman
1972 Jann Kremling
1971 Martha Tompkins- Wright
1970 Joleen Hurst Steiner
1969 Lee Natalie
1968 Ann Lewis
1967 Patti Mack-Prather
