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A 19-year-old rodeo star, who gained Miss Teen Rodeo Kansas in 2024, died in a single-vehicle automobile accident that left 4 of her teammates and a fifth particular person injured on Friday night time in rural Kansas, based on officers.
Emma Brungardt, of Blue Rapids, was a passenger in a 2007 Ford F250 pickup truck touring southbound on County Street 21 in Thomas County when the pickup “left the roadway” on the Y intersection and struck a tree row, Kansas Freeway Patrol stated in a web-based crash report.
Troopers stated Brungardt was carrying her seatbelt on the time of the crash. The motive force and 4 different passengers survived the crash, reporting attainable accidents.
Colby Group School, the place Brungardt was a sophomore, confirmed her loss of life to Fox Information Digital on Monday morning.
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Brungardt attended Colby Group School, the place she competed on the rodeo workforce. (Emma Brungardt / Fb)
The varsity’s rodeo workforce acknowledged in a Fb submit that the opposite people within the automobile included 4 different workforce members and a piece research.
“We’re praying for all households concerned,” the submit on the workforce web page learn. “Emma was a candy soul who picked up different folks and all the time had a optimistic angle. Her gentle will stay on in and across the rodeo enviornment.”
Brungardt majored in equine administration and manufacturing. (Emma Brungardt / Fb)
The motive force of the pickup was an 18-year-old man from Colorado, based on the Freeway Patrol’s crash report. The opposite passengers included a 20-year-old Larned girl, a 19-year-old Newton girl, a 19-year-old Galva girl and an 18-year-old man from Council Grove.
Emma Brungardt was named the 2024 Miss Teen Rodeo Kansas. (Emma Brungardt / Fb)
Brungardt majored in equine administration and manufacturing. The rodeo occasions she competed in included goat tying, breakaway and workforce roping.
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Brungardt was named the 2024 Miss Teen Rodeo Kansas.
An internet site for the occasion described Brungardt as a “first-generation cowgirl” who “immersed herself within the western lifestyle.”
She was concerned in FFA, a nonprofit group that provides college students agricultural courses, in highschool and within the Kansas Wild Horse Youth Problem, successful grand champion in 2019 and 2021, the web site reads. She additionally competed within the Kansas Excessive College Rodeo Affiliation for 2 years.
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Brungardt was attending Colby Group School on a rodeo scholarship, based on the Miss Rodeo Kansas web site.
