A veteran chuckwagon competitor with over 30 years experience in the game, Doug has won 5 show championships on the WPCA Pro Tour including major wins at the Ponoka Stampede and the Grande Prairie Stompede. He qualified for the Rangeland Derby’s Championship Final at the Calgary Stampede’s Centennial Celebration in 2012 and came up short by a mere one one-hundredth of a second – the closest championship final in Calgary Stampede history.
As a chuckwagon driver, Doug received the 2015 Herman Flad Memorial Award as the WPCA’s Most Improved Driver, the WPCA Clean Drive Award in 2006, and has had two horses named to the WPCA Equine Outfit of Excellence. As an outrider, Doug outrode for two Calgary Stampede COWBOYS Rangeland Derby Championship outfits, 3 Calgary Stampede Aggregate winners, and 2 Ponoka Stampede championship outfits.
Doug started his career on the Canadian Professional Chuckwagon Association (CPCA) circuit where he was the CPCA’s High Point Rookie Driver in 1998, the CPCA’s High Point Rookie outrider in 1993 and the CPCA outrider champion in 1997. A truck driver for B & R Eckel’s Transport Ltd. in the off-season, Doug also enjoys playing hockey. Doug and his wife Jimmi Lou have 3 children – Dacia, Britton and Maddi Jo, and make their home near Bonnyville, Alberta.
