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National Patriot Tour

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Annie Bianco-Ellett
World & National Champion

Annie Bianco Ellett, 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. Annie travels the country competing and offering shooting seminars. Her student following is world wide. Annie’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 is also staring as one of the three judges in the New CMT show "Americas 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, Annie 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. She has a marketing degree from Saint Mary’s Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana. Annie was the front-woman for the PRCA Team Colt Rodeo program.

Annie is currently 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 SASS. She is also a lifetime American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) and American Paint Horse Association member in the horse world. 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. Annie makes her home at her ranch in Cave Creek, Arizona with daughter Sierra Lyn and husband Dave Ellett, retired National Hockey League Allstar and owner of the New Mexico Scorpions Hockey Franchise.

Jeff Chadwick
Director of Western Events Wrangler
PBR – PRCA – Toughest Cowboy
Miss Rodeo USA Program – NFR Vegas

Jeff Chadwick is no stranger to Pro Rodeo. He started off as a Professional Rodeo Cowboy competing on the national stage decades ago. Today, Jeff heads up Wranglers professional rodeo management team, a role that places Jeff in charge of all of Wranglers sponsored riders, events and western promotions. It was Jeff’s dream to create a program that mirrored the signature “Tough Enough To Wear Pink” fund raising campaign, which to date has raised millions for Breast Cancer Research. Working with Robi Powers, of The Warrior Tours nonprofit along with Senior Management at the VF Corporation, we are now on the cusp of seeing a dream become reality. In the early summer of 2010 the first ‘Wranlger National Patriot’ custom western apparel items will be available across America. The goal is simple- Raise Millions of Dollars for Fallen and Wounded Service Members and their Families. Jeff and his staff at Wrangler are passionate about their love of America and its greatest heroes of all – Our Volunteer Service Members and their Families, Employers and Friends. Jeff will be active in ensuring that Armed Forces Entertainment Staffers and MWR Military Liaisons have all the necessary tools at hand to provide deployed service members access to information about this new campaign. He will also be on hand to work with Anne and Kaycee to teach interested service members a ‘thing or two’ about roping, rodeo’n and championship belt buckles of the NFR and PBR Circuits.

Natalie Johnson
Ms Wrangler National Patriot 2010
Phoenix Arizona

Natalie is a former Ms Rodeo Arizona. As a 20 year old she spends the vast amount of her time riding horses, volunteering with local charities and saluting our Nation’s Service Members. Natalie nearly grew up on horses...and finds herself pursuing a career in Rodeo mapped out for her by Annie Bianco-Ellett, who Natalie looks up to as a mentor, friend and coach.

The Wrangler National Patriot Staff is pleased to announce Natalie as the first ever ‘Ms Wrangler National Patriot’ ... and looks forward to showcasing her patriotism and outward love of our Men and Women who serve our country in the Armed Forces throughout the 2010 Professional Rodeo Season!

Kaycee Feild
Collegiate National Champion
Current World Ranking - 1st
3rd in the World 2009

Every cowboy or cowgirl has memories of the first time that he or she walked into the Thomas & Mack Arena in Las Vegas as a competitor in the Wranglers National Finals Rodeo, the Super Bowl of the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association. Kaycee Feild, of Payson, Utah, is no different, talking about “getting chills up my spine,” in 2008 when he stepped behind the chutes for the first time as a professional. 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 Kaycee Feild won the College National Finals bareback championship. “I had the best coach in the world,” Feild said Saturday night after earning an 82-ponit score on a reride in the bareback competition during the second round of the 77th SandHills 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 an 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.

“Last year, 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.”