Monday, April 11, 2011

Miss Rodeo Iowa Clinic

Miss Rodeo Iowa clinic
It’s that time of year again! The Miss Rodeo Iowa Clinic was held March 12th and 13th in Winterset, Iowa. I went down the Friday night before to stay at Hannah Hilsabeck (Miss Teen Rodeo Iowa 2010) house so Saturday wouldn’t be such an early morning. I also had another queen stay with me, Brooke Owen Miss Rodeo Illinois. We had a nice relaxing night chatting and snacking. It was also very nice to see Judy Rogers; she is a past board member and flew in from Laramie, Wy for the clinic. I had not seen her since my coronation celebration so it was nice to catch up. The clinic was at the new junior high school in Winterset so we had a nice facility to use. There was a good turnout of girls that came to learn new things and work on skills to be a rodeo queen or cowgirl queen. We started the day with Jordanne Blair (Miss Rodeo Iowa 2010) and Judy going over interviews, applications and general etiquette of a queen. As the afternoon went on we worked on modeling, speeches, walking and pose. Brooke and I worked with the younger girls help them perfect the techniques they were being taught. As Jordanne worked with the girls, Judy and I helped the girls one on one with the short speech they had prepared. Throughout the day we had other members of our board helping and feeding us snack and made a nice meal. 

On Sunday of the clinic I could really see change in a lot of the girls. Even just after a day the girls were much more confident and comfortable being in front of an audience. Judy went through her 4 Pillars of Strength and we were able to get interactive. Judy had us on our feet doing some exercises and working on what she was teaching us. I think we were all a little sore and had a laugh watching some of the new moves we learned. The afternoon we showed off what we had been working on the past few days. The girls improved so much. I am very excited to see these girls in the future and how they will do wonderful in the queen world.

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