| 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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