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MAY 7

Eight young ladies vie for Rodeo Queen crowns Saturday

Saturday evening the winners of the 2008 Valley Center Stampede Rodeo Queen/Jr. Queen contests will be announced.
The girls are busy getting read for the quickly approaching events, and would all love your attendance and support.
The Speech Competition will be held Friday, May 9, at VC Community Hall Pavilion area, and will begin at 5:30 p.m.
It will commence with a farewell speech from 2007 Rodeo Queen Jessica Simonsen.
The Horsemanship Competition will be held Saturday, May 10, at Aerie Park, beginning at 9:30 a.m.
Following the competition will be Queen and her Courts coronation for both the Queen and Junior Queen contestants.
This year’s queen and junior queen candidates are as follows:
2008 Queen Contestants
Kelsey Steadman
Kelsey Steadman is a 15-year-old freshman at the Valley Center High School. She has owned horses all her life and never owned less than three. Kelsey believes that being Rodeo Queen is a good opportunity to show riders that it is not what your horse can do for you, but what you can do for your horse.
Samantha Wheeler
Samantha Wheeler is the daughter of Keith Wheeler, she is 15 years old and she started riding when she was 12 years old. She was given her horse Budy a year later when she was 13 years old. Budy is a 17 year old liver chestnut Morgan, with a diamond on his forehead. When she is older, she wants to break and train horses for a living, and get some horses that are rescued, correct there problems and sell or give them to a good home.
Mary Johnson
Mary Johnson, 17, has owned and ridden horses for 14 years. She attends A Beka Christian Academy and is preparing for college. She also serves as a Sunday school teaching assistant. Her dream is to be a veterinarian and horse trainer, and to own a horse ranch.
Megan Glennie
Megan Glennie, 15, has lived in VC her entire life. She is a VCHS sophomore. She enjoys spending time with family and friends and loves our community. Megan also loves volleyball. She has played for the high school for the past two years and is now involved in club and beach volleyball. She is also involved in the Foundation of Christian Athletes. Megan would someday like to go on a mission trip to Uganda.
Megan has been passionate about horses ever since she had her first pony at age five. She now has a 16-year-old Quarter horse names Lexie. She and Lexie enjoy galloping the trails, horse shows, and being on Drill Team. She also takes her horse to Palomar Mountain and participates in cattle drives with her grandpa. She wants to attend Cal Poly and even one day become Clinton Anderson’s apprentice.
Jackie Bishop
Jackie Bishop, 15, attends VCHS. She has grown up watching rodeo. When not riding horses she likes to play basketball and lacrosse, cook and hang out with her friends. She has been riding since she was 8 and has been riding her paint mare, Sparky, for six months. She says running for Rodeo Queen has been a great experience.
2008 Junior Queen Contestants
Samantha Peters, 14, is a freshman at VCHS. She has two horses, both Arabians. Pasha is a 20-year-old gray mare she has owned for five years, and Scooter is a three year bay gelding colt of Pasha. Samantha has been riding for ten years and loves it.
Her dream is to one day work with horses either as a trainer or equine reproduction vet. Last year she competed in the Jr. Rodeo Queen division and had a blast! She learned a lot and made many friends.
Jennifer Stathatos
Jennifer Stathatos, daughter of Teri & Gary Stathatos, started riding two years ago. She met her trainer, Bud, and her horse, Jessica, at the VC Rodeo.
She has always wanted to be in a rodeo. She is a member of the Vaqueros, the Young Riders, California Jr. Rodeo, 4-H Horse group, and has ridden in the VC Rodeo and Poway Rodeo. She has accomplished a lot, all because of her relationship with Jessica and Bud. Bud supported her in everything and encouraged her to run for Junior Rodeo Queen. After Bud died, he left Jessica to her knowing that she would take good care of her. Bud believed in her and made her know she could do anything.
Jessie Thompson
Jessie Thompson, 13, has lived on Palomar Mountain since she was 17 months old. She has attended the Palomar Mountain one room School from Kindergarten-8th grade. Her family has owned horses her whole life. She just recently started showing her Quarter Horse mare, Sammy. She says it has been a blast. She says running for Junior Rodeo Queen has been a great experience and she has learned a lot from it.
Rodeo Queen 2007
This year’s outgoing Rodeo Queen Jessica Simonsen is a student at Escondido Charter High School. Her favorite activities are playing volleyball, going to the beach, riding her horse, and spending time with her family.
She plans to attend Palomar College and transfer to a university where she will study to become an athletic trainer. She plans to own a ranch to aid animals in rehabilitation from disease and injury. Jessica Simonsen is honored to support her community in representing the Valley Center Stampede Rodeo.
Junior Rodeo Queen 2007
For Sara Maguire, horses have always been a big part of her life. Sara has lived in Valley Center her whole life. She learned to do gymkhana at the Valley Center Vaqueros, where she has won two first place trophies and a whole lot of ribbons. Doing gymkhana built her self confidence, and she now competes at horse shows in both Western and English. This is her fourth year as a member and Jr. Teen leader of the Valley Center Homesteader’s 4-H. Sara has had fun over the past year learning about herself and her horses.

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