Lane started riding little dairy calves on the family dairy farm in Randlett, UT when he was 5 or 6. He was 9 when he first got on a bull. However, to the relief of his family, he met Don Gay around that time, and Don told Lane that he should just ride calves and steers until his bones were more fully developed.
Frost says that they had been telling Lane the same thing, but of course he listened to Don! At the age of 15 Lane started to ride bulls on a regular basis. Before that, he had been competing on calves and steers. Lane's first rodeo awards were won in , when he was 10, at the "Little Buckaroos" Rodeos held in and around the Uintah Basin of UT.
Lane stayed on a bucking Shetland Pony to win first in bareback, took second in calf roping and rode a calf in the "bull riding" event to place third. While rodeoing wasn't the way of life his parents exactly wanted for him, especially the bulls! Lane spent his first 14 years in Utah, doing chores on the dairy farm his parents owned, and later competing in various rodeo events. He wrestled at about 75 pounds.
During these two years he had 51 matches with 45 wins, 4 losses and 2 tied matches. Lane also continued competing in the "Little Britches Rodeos", and any other rodeo he could enter, until his parents moved the family to Lane, OK.
Lane Liked the fact that there were more youth rodeos in Oklahoma then in Utah. Lane's mom says that, while they did not encourage Lane to ride bulls, they did support him in his decision. Lane began his freshman year at Atoka High School, his sister Robin began her senior year there, and Cody was in 4th grade at Lane Elementary. In addition to help and schooling by his father, Lane now had the help of his father's friend Freckles Brown, the Bull Riding Champion, who lived not far away in Soper, OK.
Freckles became a life time mentor to Lane, who followed Freckles's advice and spent hours watching Freckle's rides on home movies. In high school Lane was offered rodeo scholarships, but he decided to pursue a professional bull riding career. He finished 16th in the standings. The top 15 finishers are qualified to compete in the National Finals Rodeo. The 15th qualifier was Jacky Gibbs, Lane's traveling partner at that time. Lane was named runner up "Rookie of the Year". At "Super Bull" he received the "Tough Luck" award for his bone-jarring, but unsuccessful efforts.
In he talked his dad into letting him build a bull riding arena on the family's ranch. Lane and his father designed the area, to be both an arena and a place to work cattle. He would qualify every year from now until his death in The reception was held at the church also. Lane also taught his first bull riding class, a class of 10, at the arena he built.
Lane not only loved to ride bulls, he loved to help others that wanted to learn how to ride. In he also taught his first bull riding class, a class of 10, at the arena he built. What Lane had to say about trying Mr. I just got hung up on his neck and he just kept working on me before I could get out of there. It's been three weeks since then, and my teeth feel a little better. My whole head feels a little better. It wasn't that bad the first three days, you know, my face just swelled up and my eyes got shut on me.
But as soon as I got my eyes opened where I could see I was feeling a lot better. What Mr. T for about four or five seconds. Then he bucked him off. About Us. Seen On. Brand Focus.
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High School Football. Athlete of the Week. Play of the Week. Spirit Stick. The situation, for an instant, looked just that innocent, and Frost did get up and take three steps. But K. Walsh had broken at least two of his ribs and one of them had punctured a vital artery, and so here, suddenly, he raised his hand in a request for aid and fell face down into the dirt. Now Hedeman and Lambert and some doctors rushed out to him, and when they turned Frost over, they knew this wreck was worse than it had appeared.
Looking back on it now, I think we all knew right then. Lane Frost, in a freak wreck, was dead. The bull rider, like the auto racer, operates at the edge, but that awful spectre of death rarely reaches down and touches him.
It seems meaningless right now. Elsie Frost loved the story, and often told of taking her baby boy Lane to the rodeo. He slept contentedly through those events and all others as well, but then magically, mysteriously, he would awake as soon as the bull riding started.
That was his wish from the time he was little,'' says the father. We tried to discourage it even. It was no big deal. But we knew there was no chance of that.
There, since the kitchen was closed, his young boy got a donut to eat, and as he gobbled it up, he said, ''This is pert near as good as bull riding.
Elsie Frost remembers him at the same age, and atop the arm of a couch in their home. He was a friend of Freckles Brown, a true legend in bull riding circles, and he watched Freckles, learned from Freckles, and passed that knowledge onto his ambitious boy. He quit Little League so he could compete in some junior bull riding.
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