Red Willow Rodeo Royalty

05/30/2026

👑Introducing our 2026 Red Willow Rodeo Queen Contestants:

▪️ Kodi Dirks - Ludell, KS
▪️ Kassidy Vaughan – Bartley, NE

Contestants will compete in horsemanship, modeling, speech, and interview on June 6th. Pageant will start at 9:15A.M with horsemanship at the Garrett Nokes Memorial Arena with the Style Show to follow at the McCook Senior Center.
The pageant is free and open to the public.

05/30/2026

👑Introducing our 2026 Red Willow Rodeo Jr. Queen Contestants:

▪️ Corinne Hammond - Moorefield, NE
▪️ Xariah Lemmer – North Platte, NE

Contestants will compete in horsemanship, modeling, speech, and interview on June 6th. Pageant will start at 9:15A.M with horsemanship at the Garrett Nokes Memorial Arena with the Style Show to follow at the McCook Senior Center.
The pageant is free and open to the public.

05/30/2026

👑Introducing our 2026 Red Willow Rodeo Princess Contestants:

▪️Ava Rahn - Merriman, NE
▪️Daya Vap – Atwood, KS

Contestants will compete in horsemanship, modeling, speech, and interview on June 6th. Pageant will start at 9:15A.M with horsemanship at the Garrett Nokes Memorial Arena with the Style Show to follow at the McCook Senior Center.
The pageant is free and open to the public.

05/24/2026

Congratulations to our Red Willow Rodeo Queen Sophia, for placing 5th in the Pole Vault at State Track. 👏😁🥳

🚨Results from Omaha!

🏅Congrats Sophia!!

05/20/2026

Where in the world has our Red Willow Rodeo Queen been lately?

Well I have been at the high school rodeos every weekend. I have been pretty consistent about being in the top ten in goats. I continue to work on barrels with my new horse Lola and she is starting poles.

I competed at state horse judging with my ffa chapter in Norfolk this week. I made the cheer team for my Senior year and finished up my junior year of high school.

I kept busy during the week track practice and track meets. I competed at district track and qualified for state and will jump Friday in Omaha. I am very fortunate to have my older sister, Samantha, coach me the last three years. It has truly been a blessing and I appreciate all her help through the years. This will be our 5th state track tournament together starting with jr high state track. That’s been a lot of time commitment by her through the years. I attached a few pole vault pictures.

I will be in Atkinson and Valentine at the high school rodeos this weekend. Then one more big weekend out west and I will be in McCook for the Red Willow Royalty Pageant.

It has been a truly amazing year representing the Red Willow Rodeo. I can’t wait to wind up my rodeo season and get to the NSRA and Mid-States rodeos the rest of the summer.

Dream Big Dreams!
Sophia Schemper

05/18/2026

👑Calling all Rodeo Royalty! 👑

We welcome you to join us in McCook, NE June 6th for the Red Willow Rodeo Royalty Pageant as visiting royalty! Please email bios to
[email protected] by May 30th.

05/12/2026

👑Red Willow Rodeo Royalty Pageant Raffle👑

Tickets are $5 Each or get 5 for $20.

Pick the package(s) you want to be entered in. We have something for everyone!

▪️Raffles will be drawn at the pageant June 6th 2026 in McCook, NE after the Pageant. Need not be present to win, but packages will not be shipped.

▪️Please list your name, phone number, and which package you want entered for on the ticket(A-D).

▪️If no letter is listed, tickets will be mixed into the different raffles. Please note that items may be added to packages.

▪️Tickets are available for purchase from any Princess, Jr. Queen, or Queen contestant as well as committee members and current royalty.

Thank you to all of the sponsors for making this possible. The raffle benefits the continuation of the pageant and scholarship program. 🙌❤️

05/03/2026

📢𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁📢

With so much going on this time of year with end of school events and graduations, we have decided to extend our application deadline to 𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝟏𝟓𝐭𝐡.

Newly crowned royalty will receive a wonderful prize package including a trophy crown, buckle, breast collar, jacket and more!

The new Red Willow Rodeo Queen will win a trophy Corriente Saddle Co. Barrel Saddle, a $𝟏,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐭𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 from Mid-Plains Community College, a $𝟏,𝟓𝟎𝟎 𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐡 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 from LONGNECKER JEWELRY, a $𝟓𝟎𝟎 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 from the Tom & Alice Kiplinger Foundation, and a $𝟕𝟓𝟎 𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐡 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 from the Red Willow Rodeo Royalty Committee along with generous local businesses listed below:
American Agricultural Laboratory
First State Bank / Community Bank
Herrmann-Jones Funeral Chapel
Jiles & Joni Bowman
Joyce Anderson, CPA, LLC
Pinnacle Bank

𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐭?
Open to young ladies ages 9-20! Applications are due May 15th. Message our page or email us at [email protected] to request an application.

04/29/2026

👑The countdown is on for the crown!
Only 2 days left to submit your application!

𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐭?
Open to young ladies ages 9-20! Applications are due May 1st. Message our page or email us at [email protected] to request an application and handbook.

04/25/2026

🤷‍♀️ 𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐑𝐞𝐝 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐑𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐨 𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐞𝐧?
One thing we do know, is she will be riding in style in this beautiful Corriente Saddle Co. trophy saddle sponsored by our friends at Wagner Ford-Toyota!!

⏰ 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝟏𝟓𝐭𝐡!
If you have questions or would like to request an application, please message our page or email us at [email protected]