"I admit, I sat there in the hospital," Mary said, "and thought, 'God, what have I done to deserve all this?'"īyron, befitting his personality, is even more blunt. Her arduous road to physical recovery had to run concurrently with an emotional journey of climbing back from what felt like bottomless grief. But in April 2011, Mary and Byron Walker lost their beloved boy in a car accident.Īnd less than two months later, while still in the fog of that tragedy, Mary was seriously injured while competing on the horse she'd long been waiting for. "But at that point in time, you seem to disagree a little bit."Ī lifelong horsewoman, she was married to a rodeo champion, and they had a 21-year-old son climbing the ranks of their sport. "People reassure you and say, 'God's not going to put anything more on you than you can handle,'" Walker said. But the gentle way she speaks shouldn't disguise the hell she went through. World champion barrel racer Mary Walker makes it sound like a milder dispute with the Almighty than it surely felt like.
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