A 19-year-old rodeo celebrity, that won Miss Teen Rodeo Kansas in 2024, passed away in a single-vehicle cars and truck crash that left 4 of her colleagues and a 5th individual harmed on Friday evening in country Kansas, according to authorities.
Emma Brungardt, of Blue Rapids, was a guest in a 2007 Ford F250 pickup taking a trip southbound on County Road 21 in Thomas County when the pick-up “left the roadway” at the Y junction and struck a tree row, Kansas Highway Patrol stated in an on the internet collision record.
Troopers stated Brungardt was using her seat belt at the time of the collision. The vehicle driver and 4 various other travelers made it through the collision, reporting feasible injuries.
Colby Community College, where Brungardt was a student, verified her fatality to Fox News Digital on Monday early morning.
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Brungardt went to Colby Community College, where she completed on the rodeo group. (Emma Brungardt/ Facebook)
The college’s rodeo group specified in a Facebook message that the various other people in the lorry consisted of 4 various other staff member and a job research study.
“We are praying for all families involved,” the message on the group web page read. “Emma was a sweet soul who picked up other people and always had a positive attitude. Her light will live on in and around the rodeo arena.”
Brungardt learnt equine administration and manufacturing. (Emma Brungardt/ Facebook)
The vehicle driver of the pick-up was an 18-year-old guy from Colorado, according to the Highway Patrol’s collision record. The various other travelers consisted of a 20-year-old Larned female, a 19-year-old Newton female, a 19-year-old Galva female and an 18-year-old guy from Council Grove.
Emma Brungardt was called the 2024 Miss Teen Rodeo Kansas. (Emma Brungardt/ Facebook)
Brungardt learnt equine administration and manufacturing. The rodeo occasions she completed in consisted of goat linking, breakaway and group roping.
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Brungardt was called the 2024 Miss Teen Rodeo Kansas.
A web site for the occasion explained Brungardt as a “first-generation cowgirl” that “immersed herself in the western way of life.”
She was associated with FFA, a not-for-profit company that uses trainees farming courses, in senior high school and in the Kansas Wild Horse Youth Challenge, winning grand champ in 2019 and 2021, the internet site reviews. She likewise completed in the Kansas High School Rodeo Association for 2 years.
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Brungardt was going to Colby Community College on a rodeo scholarship, according to the Miss Rodeo Kansas internet site.
