Electric Utility Operations

How to Win a Lineman's Rodeo

Oct. 17, 2020

Maximo Fuentes, a retired lineman and supervisor and past Lineman's Rodeo winner, shares his strategies for achieving success at the competition.

Amy Fischbach

The traditional Lineman's Rodeo Week wraps up with a day of competition and an awards banquet. For our virtual Lineman Celebration Week from Oct. 12-17, 2020, we are honoring the spirit of the competition on Super Saturday.

For example, we are posting photos from past Rodeo awards banquets and giving linemen an opportunity to test their knowledge by taking online quizzes prepared by the International LIneman's Rodeo Association. In addition, we invite apprentices and journeymen linemen to watch this special video by Maximo Fuentes on "How to Win a Rodeo."

Thanks again for your participation in Lineman Celebration Week. We hope to see you next year in Kansas City. If you have any questions or comments, email Field Editor Amy Fischbach.

About the Author

Amy Fischbach | Amy Fischbach, EUO Contributing Editor

Amy Fischbach is the contributing editor for the Electric Utility Operations section of Transmission and Distribution World. She worked for Prism Business Media (now Penton) for eight years, most recently as the managing editor of Club Industry's Fitness Business Pro magazine. She is now working as a freelance writer and editor for B2B magazines. Amy earned her bachelor's and master's degrees in journalism from Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kan.She serves as the national vice president of the American Society of Business Publication Editors. She can be reached at [email protected].