Miss Rodeo USA is an annual pageant to select the official spokesperson for the International Professional Rodeo Association (IPRA).
On January 16, 2022, Jessie Lynn Nichols was crowned Miss Rodeo USA 2022 at the Lazy E Arena in Guthrie, Oklahoma. The ceremony was held during the 52nd International Finals Rodeo. Nichols hails from Prattville, Alabama. The event occurs annually at the IFR. [1]
Jessie Lynn Nichols is Miss Rodeo USA for 2022. Nichols is the 57th woman to wear the crown. She is also the 11th woman to hold the title from the Yellowhammer State. She will travel throughout the United States and Canada as the ambassador for the IPRA promoting professional rodeo. [2]
Brooke Wallace was Miss Rodeo USA for 2020 and the 55th woman to wear the crown. Hailing from Council Grove, Kansas, she was the first to hold the title from the Sunflower State.
The Miss Rodeo USA Association has represented the IPRA for more than five decades. The pageant is open to cowgirls around the nation, who have won the title each January in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. [1]
This is a list of women who have won the Miss Rodeo USA crown.
2022 | Jessie Lynn Nichols | Alabama | [3] |
2021 | Kylee Campbell | Alabama | [4] [5] |
2020 | Brooke Wallace | Kansas | [6] |
2019 | Heather Morison | Iowa | [7] |
2018 | Summer Weldon | Tennessee | [8] |
2017 | Brittany Howard | Kentucky | [9] |
2016 | Harmony Latham | California | [10] |
2015 | Kirbi Allen | Arkansas | [11] |
2014 | Elisa Swenson | California | [12] |
2013 | Lauren Terry | Alabama | |
2012 | Trisha Smeenk | South Dakota | |
2011 | Katie Barger | Arkansas | |
2010 | Dakota Missildine | Alabama | |
2009 | Jamie Virden | Washington | |
2008 | Kristin Scott | Alabama | |
2007 | Candice Carper | California | |
2006 | Stacy Jo Johnson | Wyoming | |
2005 | Joanna Blackwell | Texas | |
2004 | Katie Woods | California | |
2003 | Leslie Burgreen | Alabama | |
2002 | Georgiana Abdo | Oklahoma | |
2001 | Rebecca Passion | Alabama | |
2000 | Marjon Brady | Arizona | |
1999 | Bobbie Jo Loomis | Oklahoma | |
1998 | Kimberly Williams | Idaho | |
1997 | Donna Stricklen | Texas | |
1996 | Kimberly Bullard | Texas | |
1995 | Amy Hettich | Wyoming | |
1994 | Lucynda Henrick | Oklahoma | |
1993 | Karen Ranswieler | California | |
1992 | Lana Grubb | Texas | |
1991 | Lorraine Keogh | California | |
1990 | Nicki Barefoot | Alabama | |
1989 | Lisa Watson | Oklahoma | |
1988 | Bobbie Kay Tate | Texas | |
1987 | Paige Hoffman | Alabama | |
1986 | Carmen Knepper | Nevada | |
1985 | Catherine Santee | Oklahoma | |
1984 | Robin Vroman | Oklahoma | |
1983 | Teresa Bailey | Alabama | |
1982 | Bobbie Newman | California | |
1981 | Laura Akers | California | |
1980 | Diana Parsons | Alabama | |
1979 | Sheri Howell | Oklahoma | |
1978 | Nancy Sides | California | |
1977 | Katie Kiebler | Missouri | |
1976 | Jackie Hayes | Tennessee | |
1975 | Billie Ruth Elrod | Texas | |
1974 | Terry Jo Langford | Florida | |
1973 | Sandra Garnett | New Mexico | |
1972 | Brenda Jowers | Louisiana | |
1971 | Mary Ellen Maxwell | Ohio | |
1970 | Diana Flynn | Oklahoma | |
1969 | Donna McLaughlin | Texas | |
1968 | Linda Lindsay | Texas | |
1967 | Sandra Polovkas | Texas | |
1966 | Donna Gittleson |
Source: [13]
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