At 53 years old, Mary Walker has had to overcome rough obstacles in her Barrel Racing career with a long list of injuries and discouraging rehabilitation processes. She suffered a brutal injury (seen in the picture with her arm spread apart). Two months later, Mary soon found out that would not be her last injury that year as a barrel racer.
On June 10th, Mary Walker experienced this terrible injury at a rodeo in Crosby, Texas. While riding her new bay horse named Latte, the horse unfortunately slipped as they were going around the final barrel and fell extremely hard on her. As a result, Walker broke her hip in three places, her pelvis, two vertebrae, and a few of her toes. That fall, Mary underwent surgery in Houston the very next day; incidentally, during her surgery doctors used eight plates and eleven pins to stabilize her crushed hip.
After Mary’s gruesome surgery, she faced a prolonged and discouraging rehabilitation process. Indeed, with full support from the Justin Boots Cowboy Crisis Fund, Mary was able to get back on her feet and begin doing what she so dearly loves, barrel racing. Nevertheless, she quickly rose to the occasion and ended up qualifying for the 2012 Wrangler National Finals for the very first time.
Mary Walker was so ecstatic after competing in her last go-round; in fact, she was even more thrilled that she had won a new Ram Truck to go along with her newest accessory, which was her very first 2012 WNFR World Championship Belt Buckle. The miraculous Mary Walker has accomplished the unthinkable at the 2012 Wrangler National Finals this last December in Las Vegas, Nevada.
This year, Mackenzie Carr, Miss Rodeo America in 2012, and the newly crowned 2013 Miss Rodeo America, Chenae Shiner, shared the stage as they presented various gifts, raffles, and clothing lines to the attendees in the audience.
At the same time, CLN was overjoyed to see Mary Walker recoginized as the star and role model she is. Wrangler presented their finest jeans to America’s finest. Too often people of character are overlooked, and it is good to see a company buck the trend.
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