Fashion Show-Speeches-Questions Sweethearts & Cowgirls (aka 2012 Contestants)

2012 Sweethearts & Junior/Teen Contestants

"The past cannot be changed.
The future is yet in your power."
- Hugh White

Seize today and look to the future, its all we have as insurance that anything is possible.  The future looks as bright as can be for our 2012 Junior, Miss Teen Contestants & Miss Rodeo Oregon Sweethearts.  It’s truly amazing what programs such as this can do for the development of our youth and to watch each of them fulfill their own potential is more than a pleasure as our organization, its truly a gift to each and every member.    Each one of our contestants has taken control of her future and has focused their dreams into reality.  Each of our young ladies showcased unique qualities from the next or the former and both entertained and inspired their crowd and families gathered to witness dreams in the making.   

It is often that our young people get told they can’t do where their dreams are leading, and tonights competition was a spectacle of the greatest kind in protest to that notion of “can’t”.  On one end our contestants took leaps of faith and most likely had those “butterflies” that competition creates.  What was so profound is the evidence that each girl had fully committed to their dreams and were each well on their way to making them a reality.  There was a magnetic aura moving through out the room, that allowed all those in attendance time to reflect on how prepared, poised, and confident each girl was and how that infused into every aspect of the competition; from the prepared speaking, filled with awkward pauses and cutting out of the mic system, to their creative and somewhat comical answers to the impromptu questions.   Although each girl had to react to a flawed microphone system, it just so turns out having two sound systems going at same time causes quite a confusion and somewhat annoying interference, but true to each girls moments in the “sun” so to speak the evenings events were filled with individualism, unique insights into their personalities, and a general sense of the scope of the impact upon youth that the MROP Inc. programs & partners such as TCR committee is great.  Each lady in her own but someone simplistic fashion was able to take spectators with them on their journey towards this title and have cemented in the minds of listeners and observers tonight that the youth are truly the future and that programs such as this Pageant provide young people with real life experiences that no matter who wins and is crowned for 2012  we have witnessed what is the power of the positive and the cowgirl strong spirit they each portrayed will be remembered by all.  Each of these young ladies, including our Miss Rodeo Oregon Sweethearts, emitted such a professional yet real picture at just who they each are! Each of the young ladies has shown great desire to reach the goal each set forth this morning when the competition began

"Successful and unsuccessful people do
not vary greatly in their abilities.
They vary in their desires to
reach their potential."
- John Maxwell