In 2020, the 25-year-old science teacher at Doherty High School in Colorado Springs became just the second person since 1985 to win the Colorado Golf Association’s Amateur and Match Play in the same year, and the first since Gary Longfellow in 1974 also to take Colorado Open low-amateur honors. Prater also became only the second player ever to concurrently receive the CGA’s Les Fowler Player of the Year and Mid-Amateur Player of the Year awards.