The 2024 Miss Teen Rodeo Kansas was killed and 5 of her faculty equestrian teammates have been injured in a automobile crash in rural Kansas on Friday night time, college officers mentioned.
Emma Brungardt, 19, a sophomore at Colby Neighborhood School and an equine administration and manufacturing main was declared useless on the scene of the accident, authorities mentioned.
“Emma was a candy soul who picked up different folks and all the time had a optimistic perspective,” the CC School Rodeo Group wrote on Fb.
“Her mild will reside on in and across the rodeo enviornment.”
Brungardt and 4 equestrian teammates have been inside a pickup truck pushed by an unidentified 18-year-old.
The driving force of the pickup truck had been headed south and minimize “between the Y hanging a tree row,” inflicting the automobile to flip, a Kansas Freeway Patrol trooper wrote in a crash report.
The driving force and the 4 surviving passengers have been taken to Residents Medical Heart in Colby, Kansas for minor accidents.
On social media, folks flooded the feedback of her memorial posts.
“The crew, college students and households concerned are in my prayers. As an alumni I do know that they’re all an amazing group at CCC and can work via this tragedy collectively,” one person wrote in Fb.
The Miss Rodeo Kansas Pageant praised Brungardt for her dedication to her craft and uncommon mild.
“Emma was a real gem and horsewoman who embodied what it meant to be a rodeo queen, all the time going above and past what was anticipated of her,” Miss Rodeo Kansas Pageant mentioned on Fb.
“We’ll miss her contagious smile and one in 1,000,000 character.”
On social media, folks flooded the feedback of her memorial posts.
Brungardt was attending college on a scholarship. On her equestrian crew, she competed in goat tying, breakaway, and crew roping.
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