Kendrie Owens crowned Hereford Heaven Round-Up Club rodeo queen

SULPHUR, Okla. Kendrie Owens, 5, made her rodeo pageant debut and brought home the crown June 21, at the 78th annual Hereford Heaven Stampede Open Rodeo. She was the youngest contestant in the pageant.

Kendrie, a Chickasaw citizen, has been fascinated with pageants and horses since she was old enough to walk. She has found a way to combine her love for both through rodeo pageantry.

“She has competed in beauty pageants,” Dakota Owens, Kendrie’s mother, said. “But this was her first rodeo pageant.”