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Annie Bianco Ellet
Annie Bianco Ellet, Cowboy Mounted Shooting Association (CMSA) World Champion Cowgirl and Single Action Shooting Society (SASS) Overall World Champion, is perhaps the most recognized person in all of cowboy mounted shooting and has helped revolutionize the sport. She is the first and only woman in mounted shooting to win a world title overall. Ellet travels the country competing and offering shooting seminars. Her student following is worldwide. Ellet's shooting and riding skills have been featured on ESPN, Outdoor Life Network, TNN and Fox Sports Television, and she is the official shooting instructor in CMT’s hit reality show Cowboy U. She also stars as one of the three judges in the CMT show America's Top Cowboy.

Articles about her have appeared in numerous books and worldwide magazines, where she has graced many of the covers. No stranger to the spotlight, Ellet has had a successful career in modeling that has spanned two decades, and was recognized as one of Daimler Chrysler’s Top Presenters at Automotive New Product & Concept Introductions Nationwide. Ellet is the national spokesperson for CMSA and was inducted into their Hall of Fame in 2007. She’s a Wrangler endorsee and a member of the Prestigious Cimarron Firearms Team of World Champions. She was honored as one of the judges for the Miss Rodeo America Contest during the 2007 WNFR. As a shooting enthusiast, she is a member of the National Rifle Association and Single Action Shooting Society. She also is a lifetime American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) and American Paint Horse Association. Her world and national champion AQHA foundation stallion, El Costa Prom, is highly sought for breeding across the country and is the "winningest" horse in the sport of mounted shooting. Ellet makes her home at her ranch in Cave Creek, AZ with daughter Sierra Lyn and husband Dave Ellet, retired National Hockey League Allstar and owner of the New Mexico Scorpions Hockey Franchise.

Jeff Chadwick
Jeff Chadwick is no stranger to Pro Rodeo. He started off as a Professional Rodeo Cowboy competing on the national stage decades ago. Now, Chadwick heads up the Wrangler professional rodeo management team, a role that places him in charge of all of Wrangler-sponsored riders, events and western promotions. It was Chadwick's dream to create a program that mirrored the signature Tough Enough To Wear Pink fundraising campaign which, to date, has raised millions for breast cancer research. Chadwick and his staff at Wrangler are passionate about their love for America and its greatest heroes of all — the service members, and their families and friends. 

Kaycee Feild
Current world champion, Kaycee Field is a force to be reckoned with in the rodeo world. He stepped behind the chutes for the first time as a professional in 2008. It wasn’t his first trip to Sin City, though. Throughout the 1980s, Feild made annual trips to the desert to accompany his father, Lewis, a five-time world champion (all-around 1985-87, bareback riding 1985-86) and member of the PRCA Hall of Fame. After leaving the circuit, Lewis Feild moved into coaching at Utah Valley State College, retiring in 2008, the same year that Feild won the College National Finals bareback championship. “I had the best coach in the world,” Feild said Saturday night after earning an 82-point score on a re-ride in the bareback competition during the second round of the 77th Sand Hills Stock Show and Rodeo at the Ector County Coliseum. “He’s one of my biggest supporters and to be able to walk into the arena in Las Vegas, knowing that my father had competed there and won, was the thrill of a lifetime. It’s something that I’ll always remember."

Feild, however, did more than just show up the National Finals Rodeo the past two years, he made sure that everyone understood he was there for a reason. In 2008, after five so-so rounds, Feild won the sixth round with a 90.5-point ride on Wise Guy and then placed in three more rounds before the end of the event, finishing eighth in the world. Last year, after entering the NFR in seventh place, Feild won the second round with an 89-point ride on Dusty Dan and placed in three other rounds to move up to third in the final stands for 2009. “It’s a great experience to make the (victory) lap after winning at the NFR,” Feild said. “When I would go with my dad, it was something that you dream about and to do it both years is great.” Feild also learned that life on the chute side of the arena is much different than sitting in the stands for 10 nights. In 2008, the then 21-year old experienced all the nightlife that Las Vegas had to offer — and paid for in during the later rounds of the competition. “By the eighth and ninth rounds, I was really sore because I was just competing, then going out and then laying around during the day waiting for the performance. We planned things during the day to get up and moving around, so we were asleep a lot earlier and I felt a lot better. It’s something that you don’t understand until you’ve been through the NFR and 10 straight days.”

Lucas Hoge
There are less than 50 people in the tiny Nebraska town of Hubbell and nearly all of them came out to see Lucas Hoge leave. Hoge started singing at the age of 12, played in several bands throughout his teens and won over his hometown. During his farewell concert, friends, fans and family came to say good-bye and donated $2,500 seed money for his dream. Hoge packed up his 1994 Dodge Ram truck, headed straight for the country music capitol and quickly began making a name for himself.

Since arriving in Nashville, Hoge recorded two acclaimed country CDs, had an original song featured on the WB’s Smallville, scored an entire HBO series and If Only I Could, Dirt and Get The Door have won several music awards. Hoge also has won the title of International Country Artist of the Year, Country Album of the Year.

“My favorite place to write is when I’m on the road” Hoge says. While traveling to Iraq, Kuwait and Kosovo to perform for the troops he wrote Medal Of Honor, which is featured on three compilation projects including the Music For Our Troops CD. Hoge is now the spokesperson for Not Alone, which is an organization that helps warriors and their families adjust to life after war.

Hoge has been featured on The Today Show, Inside Edition, The Daily Buzz, Fox 17, Tennessee Mornings, Daytime TV and more to promote his TV show Last Chance Highway, which has been seen in more than 30 million homes each week on Animal Planet. The show focuses on saving dogs in the south from being euthanized and finding them "forever homes" up north. Hoge also penned and performs the show's theme song, also titled Last Chance Highway, which is available on iTunes. Hoge resides in Nashville, TN and his focus is on his music, his love of our troops and his love for animals.

Maegan Ridley
Miss Wrangler National Patriot and Miss Rodeo America 2009, Maegan Ridley, is an official spokesperson for the sport of professional rodeo and providing educational opportunities for those young women who compete in the pageant. Miss Rodeo America travels some 100,000 miles during the year of her reign, appearing at nearly 100 rodeo performances, as well as appearances at schools, civic groups and other special events, educating the public and creating awareness about the sport of rodeo, its sponsors and opportunities. Talented, beautiful and well-spoken, Miss Rodeo America is the ideal ambassador to represent and promote America’s Original Professional Sport – rodeo – serving as the official spokesperson for the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association. She also takes on the role of model and spokesperson in a variety of promotional events and commercial advertisements for western clothiers, publications, sponsors and other service providers to the western industry. We encourage you to come out and meet Miss Rodeo America when she makes an appearance at a rodeo or event near you — pull on your leather work boots or your cowboy boots, grab your hat, and join Miss Rodeo America in supporting the great western rodeo tradition as she now takes on the role of representing the Wrangler National Patriot Program. Ridley will be the second ever Miss Wrangler National Patriot, supporting the effort that raised over half a million dollars for Fallen and Wounded Service Members in its first year.