2014 Princess and 2015 Miss Eugene Pro Rodeo Pageant

Do YOU want to be the next Miss Eugene Pro Rodeo? The tryout packet for the 2014 Princess and 2015 Queen pageant is now available! Must be 18-24 years and live within 45 miles of Oregon Horse Center. If you have any questions or would like a copy, please send an email to eprqueen@gmail.com. Printed copies also available within the OHC office.

2014 Miss Eugene Pro Rodeo - Kayla Wood

On behalf of the Eugene Pro Rodeo Committee, I would like to congratulate your 2014 Miss Eugene Pro Rodeo! She will spend all summer representing our home rodeo and showing everyone what a great place it is to be on the 4th of July. Please take a moment to view her bio:

Hi there! My name is Kayla Wood and I am the eighteen year old
daughter of Rod and Pam Wood. I have lived in Harrisburg for over thirteen years. I am a 2012 high school graduate. I have been working on my prerequisites and plan on continuing in the fall. My goal is to complete the dental hygienist program at LCC in the next few years.
I have been around horses my whole life. I started on my mom’s old
rodeo court horse Jasper when I was five years old. As any little girl would, I fell in love with horses and haven’t been able to leave the saddle ever since!
I have been in 4-H, and OHSET. I competed in a variety of events like team penning, cow daubing, barrels, other speed events, saddle seat, working rancher, and a few others. I have always enjoyed showing and being in the horse world. Clay, my partner in crime, is a big eight year old chestnutquarter horse with a big white
blaze, which carries me high and proud. We have a fresh relationship but we already have a connection
that is unstoppable. I am proud to have him on my side, as my trusty steed as we rodeo around Oregon all summer.
Being on rodeo court is a huge passion I have been dreaming about for years. I can remember
being six years old telling my mom (who was also a princess) that I was going to be exactly like her. I
would always hold her princess crown, my imagination would go wild. I remember being a little girl,
sitting in the Eugene Pro-Rodeo stands watching the rodeo queens flying by waving, and I knew that was
a goal I was always going to strive for.
I am so greatly honored to be Eugene Pro-Rodeos 2013 Queen. I have family and loved ones
who support me, and help me out tremendously and I am extremely thankful for them. I will represent
Eugene Pro-Rodeo with pride and dignity. I can’t wait to travel to other rodeos and represent Eugene as
one of the best rodeos around! I hope to make 2013 Eugene Pro-Rodeo one to never forget. You don’t
want to miss out, See you there!

Information

Hope everyone has been doing good! It has been an awesome year! Just to update everyone, we are moving a lot of our Miss Eugene Pro Rodeo information over to facebook. I put a copy of the finalized packet on here, and there is also a copy on the facebook page. Don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions!

http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Miss-Eugene-Pro-Rodeo/176450012428943

More Updates!

Wow how time flies! Its been an amazing spring and start to summer and I am so excited for our rodeo coming up!
I saw a first little taste of summer at the Rhodie Fest in Florence, Oregon. When we first got there I was worried the weather wouldn't be good, but by the time the parade started it turned out gorgeous! Our 2010 miss EPR, also a good friend of mine happened to be at the coast that weekend with her fiance, another good friend and they were kind enough to help me get my horse ready. Kyra is a lot more crafty than I am and decorated Rhodies all throughout Rulu's mane and tail. It looked so cute!

And Cody was my rodeo queen mom for the day pinning my sash on :)

It turned out to be an overall great day! The inner "child at heart" came out in me on the way home when we went by the Gingerbread Village Restaurant  in Mapleton. They had the Gingerbread man out, so of course I had to get a picture! He even gave me a free gingerbread cookie ;)

 Our next event was KKNU dinner at Putters. It was great to finally meet the radio crew, Barrett, Fox, and Berry. I hear them on the radio almost every day they are such great people! I had a lot of fun chatting with everyone and helping out with the raffle for rodeo tickets!

At last but certainly not least, I just got back from the Sisters Rodeo this last weekend. I had such an amazing time. I ran into some of the queens I have already met, and got to meet some new ones too. There was so many nice, beautiful girls and everyone was very welcoming! I felt right at home. Saturday morning we had the parade and right after all of the contestants were treated to ice cream bars :) I was really excited for Sunday because I got to wear my new pink chaps for Tough Enough to Wear Pink night. Rulu was such a trooper for a long hot weekend. I was a bit bummed to come home because the weather was so amazing there and I didn't want to leave!

April Updates!

I was able to run into Benton County's
Queen, Clara and we got to visit for a while.
 It was great seeing her!

I feel like its been a while since I have given everyone an update! I have had a fun and busy month so far and finally got a chance to sit down and post!

And then I ran into Mr. Gage :)
One of the cutes cowboys I know!

First, I will start off with the PBR at the Matthew Knight Arena. I was really excited because I hadn't been there yet and the first time I got to go was for a rodeo event. We had an awesome booth set up for Eugene Pro Rodeo and I met some great people!

And I couldn't complete the night without taking a picture
with the UO Duck Mascot!

The next weekend I headed up to Corvallis to the Benton County Spring rodeo. I had a great time! The weather is starting to get better and we managed to stay dry! I was excited to come again because I had a lot of fun at their last rodeo, Super Bulls in January. It's always fun helping out with the games for the kids. Since Easter is coming up, they did an egg and spoon race with plastic easter eggs. It was so cute watching the little kids run across the arena! One of the kids was a little impatient though and wanted to eat his chocolate before the race! (He had spotted the Hershey's Kiss inside his egg). 

Me and the 2011 Cottage Grove Queen, Jenny Conrad

All of the girls looked great and the rodeo made for a really fun weekend!

OHSRA rodeo at Oregon Horse Center

Once again, this is Kyra blogging!
While Jessica was attending the Cowgirls and Crowns clinic held by Miss Rodeo Oregon this weekend, the Oregon Horse Center was playing host to a rodeo for the Oregon High School Rodeo Association. And since OHC is the home of the Eugene Pro Rodeo, we all felt we needed the EPR to be present! And so, since Jessica couldn't be in two places at once, I got to be her substitute and be queen again for the weekend.
First off I was really ecxited because I haven't been very involved with horses in the past few months since my pony is now leased out and so naturally I am very sore today! Anyway, I had the great honor of wearing the "retired" queen chaps and I even got the chance to use the "souvenir crown" that my mom had made for me post-reign.
I was very glad to be able to work cattle and run a couple sponsor flags for the rodeo and the best part was watching all of these upcoming rodeo-stars doing what they do best! It made me sort of wish that I had done competition-rodeo while I was in high school, even though I would not have been nearly as good as the kids competing this weekend!
I just want to thank all of the people who made my weekend a blast and for letting me get my well-needed rodeo time in! Thank you to all of the members of OHSRA for having me and for running such a well organized high school event, and the biggest thank you goes to Mandi and Kaylee Hansen for letting me borrow Keely for my run-in and cows! She was fantastic and I loved getting to ride again!
And now, back to Jessica, your 2011 queen :D -Kyra Turner

Duck Parade

Last Saturday, I went just a few minutes from my house to our local Parade of Champions, Duck Parade. I had a lot of fun! I was a little worried at first trying to find parking in the middle of downtown Eugene, but luckily they had a big area cleared out so I was able to unload....right at the heart of Campus! I never thought I would be riding on the UO campus, and Rulu wasn't so sure about it at first, but she quickly realized it was game time and did great with all the new and interesting sights to see!
Since we were the only horse entry in the parade, I had a lot of people really excited to see Rulu. A couple of the girls working the parade traffic wanted to take a picture with her. The one girl however was scared of horses so any time Rulu moved she got a little nervous ;) I hope they were able to get a picture though! It was nice meeting lots of new people, and I ended up running into a lot of people that I knew throughout the parade. There was a lot of Duck Spirit and I think that it was a really fun atmosphere. I was really excited to get my Great Uncle's old parade saddle out too! It reminds me of a saddle Roy Rogers would have for Trigger. My Great Uncle used it in parades when he was part of the Sheriffs Posse so it was neat keeping the family history alive! I would also like to thank my helpers, Lian and Bev for helping me get ready, and McKenzie and Maddison for being my pooper scoopers. Not a very fun job but they can say they helped out when they try out for Miss EPR someday :)