Miss Rodeo Kansas 2019 Contestants
A cowgirl at heart, Brooke Wallace from New Cambria, Kansas, started riding horses before she could even walk. Thanks to her parents, Mark and the late Julie Wallace, she was brought up knowing what hard work and dedication are with these values. Brooke graduated from Kansas State University with a degree in Apparel Design. She was a member and officer of the rodeo club. She has a passion for western wear fashion and currently designs and constructs her own western wear clothing. Brooke’s goal is to promote the sport of rodeo, by embodying our Kansas heritage and showing the community that rodeo can continue to enhance our evolving society. |
Lexi Luce is the 21-year-old daughter of Meloney Galloway and Todd Luce. Her home town is Augusta, KS where she attended Augusta High School and represented her school and hometown for a total of four years as a cheerleader. She is a recent graduate from Cowley County Community College where she also represented as a collegiate level cheerleader for two years. She graduated from Cowley receiving her Associates of Science Degree, and will be continuing her education to get a bachelor’s degree in Physical Therapy. Growing up, Lexi has a long history of being an active member in her local 4-H club. She would like to thank 4-H for everything it has to offer, and for the lasting impact it left on her life and many others as well. Lexi’s motto is “To the Stars through difficulty.” She states “Everybody has challenges in life, overcome these challenges, strive for greatness and reach for the stars. One of the most important aspects that being a rodeo queen has taught me, is that mistakes and disappointments are not only inevitable but are a necessary part of the growing process.” When life gets hard, saddle up and ride on harder. Lexi started riding horses before she could walk, and to this day her favorite place to be is on the back of a horse. She has competed in many horse shows, and has held a total of four rodeo queen titles in the last four years. Giving back to the 4-H, Rodeo, and Agriculture industry that made me who I am today is what I strive for. The western way of life is one I am very proud to live and through me I want to spread my love for the sport to many others. I would be honored to represent the great state of Kansas, Dodge City Round-up Rodeo, as their spokesperson for such an amazing sport.
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Miss Teen Rodeo Kansas 2019 Contestants
Emma Losh is a true cowgirl that loves the sport of rodeo. Emma is the daughter of Neil and Brenda Losh. She attends Concordia High School where she will be a sophomore in the fall. She is involved in FFA, the FFA horse judging team, cross country, track, and the high school cheer squad. Emma believes you have to get involved and give 100% in everything you do, just like the rodeo lifestyle she is so proud to represent. Remember the words, “go after life as if it’s something to be roped in a hurry, before it gets away.” . |
Kaylee Couch is the 17 year old daughter of Shawn and Tricia Couch. She will be a senior at Fredonia Junior Senior High School. She has two older sisters and one younger brother. When not at home working with her horses, she stays busy with many other activities including being on the Fredonia High School Pom Squad for four years. Being a 4-H member for 10 years and currently serving as Vice-President of Busy Beavers 4-H Club. Being a member of FCCLA for 7 years. Competing in STAR events at Nationals for four years. Kaylee was Vice-President of her chapter and on the State Peer Ed Team. She has also played basketball for the last three years. After high school Kaylee plans to attend college at NEO A&M and be on the rodeo team. Kaylee wants to get a degree in physical therapy and eventually start her own practice and become an equine physical therapist.
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For Brayley Rae Frazier, age 16, rodeo is a family affair. She is a third generation rodeo competitor that includes her mother, uncle and grandparents. Her first love has always been horses. She has been riding horses all of her life and started competing in Little Britches at age six. Over the past 10 years, her participation in a variety of rodeo competitions has increased and her love for horses has never changed. She rides daily whenever possible. In addition to her rodeo practice, she has also been involved in vocal music. She maintained a 3.5 GPA her freshman year and was a freshman cheerleader. |
2019 MRK Pageant Judges
Audra McNicholas
Audra was born and raised on a small ranch in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. She went on to attend Colorado Mesa University (CMU), where she graduated with honors, obtaining a Bachelors of Arts with an Elementary Education endorsement. During her four years at CMU, she served as a “CMU Ambassador” and also competed on the CMU Rodeo Team. Following graduation, Audra taught Kindergarten and First Grade on the Western Slope. While teaching, she also received certification as a Reading Recovery Specialist. In 2009, Audra was officially crowned as the 54th Miss Rodeo Colorado (MRC) at the Denver National Western Stock Show. As a representative of the Centennial State and the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association, Audra spent a year traveling to various rodeos and western celebrations throughout the United States. In December 2009, Audra joined nation’s best cowboys and cowgirls in Las Vegas, Nevada for the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo, proudly representing Colorado in the Miss Rodeo America Pageant and placing as a Top 10 finalist. During her reign as MRC, Audra met her husband, Sean McNicholas, President and Owner at Service Systems Associates. She and Sean live in Greenwood Village and have two beautiful daughters, Aralilia (age 5) and Avalynn (age 3). In addition to being a busy mom of two young girls and supporting her husband in his many corporate endeavors, Audra also serves on a number of community boards and committees, all of which are close to her heart, including the National Western Stock Show Citizens of the West, Colorado FFA Foundation, Arapahoe Rodeo Royalty Association and the Children's Museum of Denver. Despite her busy schedule, Audra remains actively involved in the world of rodeo with riding, roping, and coaching young girls for pageants, as well as teaching western horseback riding. |
Staci Trehern
Tucked away in the Jemez Mountains of northern New Mexico is where Staci calls home. Born and raised on her family’s cattle ranches, Staci grew up with a deep-rooted love and passion for the cowboy way of life, agriculture and the sport of rodeo. From gathering cattle, fixing fence and bucking hay Staci truly enjoys the everyday work associated with this way of life. When she isn’t at the ranch she can be found in the rodeo arena competing as a WPRA barrel racer and team roper, outside of the arena Staci is currently pursuing her Doctorate in Organizational Communication, working on business ventures and spending time with her family. As a young girl, Staci dreamed of running barrels in the bright lights of Las Vegas competing in the sport she loved the most. Never in her wildest dreams would she have ever guessed that her arrow would lead her to stand on one of rodeos biggest stages representing not only the sport of rodeo but, the cowboy way of life and the state of New Mexico. Staci’s journey to Las Vegas was unexpected and did not come without its shares of up and downs, but as she says- if you want something you’ve never had you have to do something you’ve never done. God set her on a path of preservation and representation. Her job, preserve a way of life that so many knew little about through promotion. In November of 2016 Staci competed at the Miss Rodeo America Pageant in Las Vegas, Nevada held in conjunction with the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo. Staci competed against 35 women from around the United States where she was 2nd runner up and won the prestige’s horsemanship award. Staci was the 2014 New Mexico State Fair Queen, 2015 Miss Turquoise Circuit and the 2016 Miss Rodeo New Mexico, becoming only the 2nd woman in New Mexico history to win all 3 titles. Her work didn’t end there she has since been featured in Western Horse and Gun Magazine, Cowboys and Indians magazine, Rodeo News Magazine and was named Vogue Magazines "American Cowgirl". Staci says "I never competed in pageants for the crowns or buckles, in time they will fade and tarnish. I competed to leave a legacy, change an industry and to inspire those around me to believe in themselves and to follow their arrow where ever it points." |
Randy Fisher Randy was born in Meade, Kansas and raised on a small family livestock farm just outside of town. He was active in sports, 4-H, youth church organizations, livestock and rodeo. One year at Southwestern College in Winfield was followed up by attending Kansas State University where he graduated in 1976 with a B.S. in Animal Science and a minor in Agriculture Business. It was there in his late college days where his rodeo career peaked and ended while working the bareback riding, tie down roping, and team roping. He then started his family and a career in the retail commodity brokerage business in the heart of the Flint Hills near Emporia, Ks. Western Kansas became home for the next 5 years ranching and managing a couple commercial beef feedyards. Currently he is self-employed specializing in estate and financial planning, 401k and IRA retirement plans. Fisher is Past President of Beef Empire Days PRCA Rodeo, has judged the Miss Rodeo America Pageant, Miss Rodeo Kansas and Oklahoma state pageants, originated the Pro/Celebrity Team Roping Match twenty years ago that was held during Garden City and Dodge City’s rodeo, commissioned a bronze traveling trophy named “Lookin’ Forward, Lookin’ Back” , and co-founded Journey To The Cross Cowboy Church in 1998. His passion for the code of the west, supporting youth activities, rodeo, and spreading the Gospel was all brought together when he helped organize and direct the first of eleven Rodeo Bible Camps though the Cowboy Ministry organization. Randy’s interests today include work, Cowboy Church ministry, raising and training horses, team roping, spending time with his family, cooking outdoors, traveling and writing some Cowboy Poetry. (Not particularly in that order?) He and his wife Rhonda, of twenty-six years, have five children and eight grandchildren. |