New Caribou County Rodeo Royalty Announced

Many young girls dream about becoming a princess or queen.  They dream about the elegant dress, the sparkly crown and the hundreds of followers cheering them on.  For the majority of girls these dreams evolve into other worthy ambitions but for a few those dreams of becoming royalty do actually come true.  For a select few those dreams were realized last week during the Caribou County Fair and Rodeo.  

Unlike other positions of royalty, becoming part of the Rodeo Queen Royalty takes more effort than just being born into the right family or winning a popularity contest.  Rodeo royalty must compete in a series of events and competitions to earn their spot in the rodeo grand entry.  For this year's contestants these events began on August 2nd.  All of the contestants gathered at the Gem Valley Performing Arts Center where they competed in three categories: modeling, speech, and impromptu.  The following day the contestants met at the fairgrounds to compete in the horsemanship portion of the contest.  Once all of the competitions were completed only the princess and pee-wee winners were announced.  The rest of the contestants would have to wait until the beginning of the PRCA Rodeo on Tuesday night to hear the results of who the Senior and Junior Queens and their attendants would be.  As for the Princess and Pee-Wee they were awarded to Jaylee Shei and Averee Spencer respectively.  

After three days of waiting the anticipation and holding of breath finally came to a conclusion when the new Queens and attendants were announced in the arena just prior to the start of the rodeo.  Your new Caribou County Rodeo Junior Queen is Addison Wright with first attendant Cady Johnson and second attendant Hailee Abramson.  The new Senior Queen Royalty are Jaycie Smith as Queen, Paige Clements as first attendant, and Paisley Barthlome as second attendant.

Congratulations to all of this year's contestants and winners.