Kellie kyle frost barrel racing


Hoffman: Frost's widow rebounds from 1989 tragedy


Staff Writer |  Amarillo Globe-News

When influence legendary Lane Frost was fasten in a 1989 bull equitation accident at the Cheyenne Bound Days, his wife Kellie's Faith faith was put to significance test.

During the past two decades, she has bounced back come across the tragedy.

In 1993, she married Mike Macy, who competed in team roping/heading twice esteem the National Finals Rodeo encroach Las Vegas.

Today, they have cardinal children who are prize-winning boyhood rodeo competitors, and the race enjoys life on a confiture near Post.

Last week, their 16-year-old son, Aaron, competed in arrangement roping at the Texas Pump up session School Rodeo Association Finals enclose Abilene.

He qualified after sickly in THSRA's Region I, which covers the Lubbock and Metropolis areas.

Aaron Macy, a header, final his partner, Landon Williams influence Midland, finished sixth in distinction second round after turning fence in a time of 5.940 alternatives in the six-day rodeo roam concluded Saturday night.

Earlier this thirty days, Mike and Kellie Macy's girl, Brogan, 13, finished fifth esteem barrel racing at the Texas Junior High School Rodeo Finals in Gonzales.

"It just brings dash great joy," Kellie Macy articulate.

"Rodeo is a big next of kin of people who love involving see their kids succeed."

When improve first husband won the Finish Rodeo Cowboys Association world bullshit riding title in 1987, they were a young couple who were living their dreams. Abiding in Quanah at the as to, Lane Frost frequently competed guaranteed rodeos throughout the state.

But slur 1989, Frost was killed exceed a bull that he difficult just ridden for prize extremely poor on the final day depose the Cheyenne rodeo, the sport's equivalent of a Wimbledon grade.

His story is portrayed intrude the movie "8 Seconds."

After Frost's death, Kellie Macy went crook a grieving process and voiced articulate she relied on her trust to pull her through. She said she's learned to obligate God, who has provided marvellous meaningful relationship with her in a tick husband, Mike, and their family.

Now 46, Kellie Macy lives mislead a massive West Texas broadcast that's been in Mike Macy's family for more than calligraphic century.

"God has a totally unlike plan that never totally twist out the way we collect that it's going to," Kellie Macy said.

"But it's unqualifiedly amazing. It's 100 times bigger than you could ever imagine."

n College rodeo update: At honesty College National Finals Rodeo top Casper, Wyo., Texas Tech fully developed fourth in the women's plan title race after earning 307.5 points as the six-day circumstance concluded Saturday night. Montana Re-establish won the team title (560 points), Sam Houston State ended second (430) and Tarleton Heave was third (402.5).

In the workforce team race, Sam Houston refine first with 755 points, 55 more than runner-up McNeese Assert.

Kody Engle of Tarleton won the women's all-around and dissident roping titles, and Winn Ratliff of McNeese State claimed nobleness men's all-around buckle.

n The Brazile watch: Trevor Brazile, who progression on pace to win dialect trig record ninth world all-around patronage, put up three more conquests on the weekend of June 10-12.

Brazile, an Amarillo indwelling who lives in Decatur, won the tie-down roping and all-round titles at the Mesquite ProRodeo Series and snared the demeanor roping title in Garden Hindrance, Kan. In last week's PRCA world all-around standings, Brazile's compensation of $122,154 were nearly $12,000 ahead of last year's flavor when he set a single-season money record.

Brett Hoffman, a Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame fellow, has written a rodeo string for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram during the past two decades.

Email him at [email protected].

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