Alan Woolsey
2024Lance Nichols
2023Tony Wisely, CAI, BAS
2022Halie Behr
2020Michael Nichols
2019Dean Gunter, BAS
2018Wes Lamb
2017Josh Larson
2016Doug Carpenter, CAI
2015Scott Shuman, CAI
2014Sean Allen
2013Emily (Wears) Kroul, CAI
2012Adam Kevil
2011Rich Schur CAI, MPPA, BAS
2010Steve Linnebur
2009Shawn Hagler
2008Mike Heitmann
2007Kevin Holt
2006Walt Partridge
2005Everett Schneider
2004David P. Whitley CAI, CES
2003Josh White
2002Brian Marshall
20012000
Lloyd Michael, Jr.Scott Goodhue
1999Dan McVey
1998No Contestant
1997Ken Holzworth
1996James Higgins
1995Brian Weitzel
1994Steven W. Holt
1993John L. Korrey
1992Raymond R. Holt
1991Sammy Hamblen
1090Ron Miller
1989Robert L. Johnson
1988Randell N. Smith
1987Larry Lusher
1986Jack Salisbury
1985Ted Odle
1984Jack De Nooy
1983Fritz Rundel
1982Otha C. “Jr.” Mass
1981Booth Brown
1980
Jess Nighswonger
2024Justin Behr
2023Trenton Holzworth
2022Shelby Shuman
2020Casey Panique
2019James Head
2018Brett Barker
2017Cody Johnson
2016Jennifer Clifford Spaeth
2015Wes Lamb
2014Graig Medvesk
2013Mike Nichols
2012Dean Gunter
2011Norm Silver
2010Rich Schur
2006Vaughn Long
2004Shawn Hagler
2003
Matthew Heitmann
2024Cissy Tabor
2023Tony Wisely, CAI, BAS
2022Mike Whitfield
2020Josh Miller
2019Aaron Rodriguez Awarded 2022 Colorado Jr Bid Calling Champion
The Colorado Jr Bid Calling Competition is open to anyone between the ages of 13 and 18.
Aaron Rodriguez
2022Rylee Nichols
2018Shelby Shuman
2017Matthew Heitmann
2016Amanda Shuman
2015
Shawn Hagler and Monica Higdon
2024Trenton Holzworth & Rylie Behr
2023Shawn Hagler & Cissy Tabor
2022Shawn Hagler Crowned
As Inaugural
Challenge Of Champions Auctioneer
During the 60th Anniversary Colorado Auctioneers Association Convention, the Challenge Of Championscompetition was held for the first time and was a new addition to the auctions that are held during the annual convention. This competition is only open to competitors that have been crowned as a Colorado Auctioneer Champion.
Contestants vied for the coveted honor of being crowned the 1st Challenge of Champions Auctioneer, a custom-designed championship belt buckle, a cash award and plaque. This contest is only scheduled to be held every 5 years and predicts to get more and more competitive throughout the years in addition to entertaining.
Shawn Hagler of Hudson, Colorado, was crowned the 2018 Challenge Of Champions winner on Thursday, January 4, 2018. Past Colorado State Champions competed in front of an esteemed panel of State, International and World Champion Auctioneer judges.
Shawn first joined the CAA in 2003, where he won the Troil Welton Bid Calling Award. Shortly thereafter, he found his way into the Auto Auction industry and discovered his love for the fast paced and demanding car auction world. In 2008, he won the Colorado State Auctioneer Championship and the 2009 World Automobile Auctioneers Championship World Champion Ringman.
After the past nine years of flying over 200 flights per year and working five auto auctions weekly in four different states, Shawn decided to slow down, be at home more and shift his business focus more to his Fundraising Auction business and to start a new venture. Shawn feels that he has been blessed in the auction business and wants to give back to the profession that has given so much to him. Shawn and his long-time friend Vaughn Long, 2007 WAAC World Champion Ringman, have started a new school, World Champion Ringman College, to train Ringmen. Shawn feels that there is a large need for more advanced Ringman training and that while Shawn and Vaughn both received several years of on-the-job training at the auto auctions while under the tutelage of World Champion Paul C. Behr of World Wide College of Auctioneering and several other world class auctioneers, not many new auctioneers and Ringmen ever get that opportunity to learn and develop their skills and they want to give them that opportunity.
This year Shawn is also using his Professional Speaking background to give motivational speeches, emcee all the concerts at the Greeley Stampede and to also speak at several State Auctioneer Association Conventions. He looks forward to the next several years of serving on the CAA Board of Directors and hopes be able to once again give back to a great association that has given him so much over the past 15 years.
Each professional auctioneer who competed became a better auctioneer because of the contest and should be congratulated for taking part.
Thank you to AuctionFlex for providing the auction clerking software and clerking the auction