Wayne Brooks is a familiar voice across all of rodeo and the five-time PRCA Announcer of the Year is one of the voices at Reno Rodeo. It is an electric rodeo that kicks off the Summer Run in a big way.
“The one thing in particular is this committee works so very very very hard to leave no stone upturned. The quality of their production is at the highest level because they’ve got a lot of volunteers and they care,” Brooks said.
Brooks has been a part of Reno Rodeo for 19 years and over time he has seen many improvements. That includes a purse of $600,000, more rodeo contestants than ever but most importantly, the giving back that Reno Rodeo is able to do for children in their community is at an all time high.
“Our Reno Rodeo Foundation in the benevolent arm of the Reno Rodeo and we’re about to eclipse $9 million that has gone back into kids pockets and to help them all across the state,” he said.
As for Brooks’ job of announcing alongside Bob Tallman, he looks back and says that it took the two of them a couple of years before they found the great rhythm that we hear from them today. But Brooks also has the privilege of announcing horseback in the arena adding another exciting yet trivial aspect to Reno Rodeo.
“You know, that horse belongs to Matt Twitchell, one of the pickup men here out of Utah, and he’s got five or six more just like him. Great big, fat, broke, perfect kind of horses. And he’s a pickup horse, so if I happen to be looking down doing something, about to get in trouble, that horse will start moving on his own, i don’t have to be looking. So he’ll save you. Everybody knows that horse and I love him, he’s the greatest,” Brooks said.
You can spot Brooks in the arena during all Reno Rodeo performances and you might even catch him do an interview or two from the roan’s back.
