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Flood Competing In International Finals Youth Rodeo

PictureBailey Flood competes at the 2018 IFYR. Photo courtesy IFYR/RodeoBum.com.
July 11, 2019

Bailey Flood of Crane, is competing in the 27th annual International Finals Youth Rodeo July 7-12 at the Heart of Oklahoma Exposition Center in Shawnee, Oklahoma. Flood is participating in the world’s richest youth rodeo, hoping to win her share of more than $250,000 in prize money and championship saddles and buckles.


Flood will join more than 750 of the top high school rodeo athletes from around the world for the 2019 IFYR. She is vying for prizes in cowgirls goat tying.


Contestants will compete in 10 events running simultaneously in three arenas throughout the week. Events include cowgirls barrel racing, cowgirls pole bending, cowgirls breakaway roping, cowgirls goat tying, team roping, tie-down roping, steer wrestling, bull riding, saddle bronc riding and bareback riding. The IFYR consists of two long go-rounds and a short go. All contestants compete once in each of the long go-rounds. The top 15 averages in each event will compete in the short go finals on Friday.


“The International Finals Youth Rodeo brings phenomenal high school athletes from all over the world Shawnee, Oklahoma, each year,” said Stephanie Meiler-Gideon, interim director of the Heart of Oklahoma Exposition Center and International Finals Youth Rodeo. “The IFYR gives these athletes the chance to compete at a professional level and allows them to showcase their rodeo skills for all to see.”


As of presstime on Tuesday, July 9, Bailey has not placed in any of the results released by IFYR. 


The International Finals Youth Rodeo continues in Shawnee, Okla., until Friday, July 12.


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