Southeastern head rodeo coach Christi Braudrick is set to be honored on Friday night as the Alumnus of the Year at the 30th NIRA Alumni Reunion being held in conjunction with the CNFR in Casper, Wyo.
She is a lifelong member of the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association Alumni and has served as a director on the NIRAA Board since 2019. Her and her husband, Kyle, are sponsors of the scholarship awarded to the first-go-round winner in the breakaway roping at the CNFR.
In Braudrick's time at the helm of the program she has coached four national champions and 16 individual Central Plains champions while her women's team has picked up a pair of regional team championships while the men have added one.
She also added a 2019 NIRA Central Plains Region Coach of the Year award.
Braudrick is a Southeastern graduate who competed as a member of the rodeo team from 1992-95 under legendary coach Betty Gayle Cooper-Ratliff and was a member of the 1994 team that finished national runner-up at the College National Finals Rodeo.
Braudrick has been an educator throughout Oklahoma and Texas since 1997, and has coached multiple sports while also facilities, fundraising and community programs.
She served as unit director for the Boys and Girls Club from 2001-06, and during this time implemented horseback riding, roping and elementary basketball programs.
As a student she taught western and equestrian riding through continuing education course, while also helping to manage the equine, livestock and facility grounds. She also helped conduct rodeo camps and clinics.
As a teacher, she and her students have been well recognized for their success both athletically and academically.
She has also served as the junior rodeo association directors for breakaway roping in both Texas and Oklahoma.
Braudrick competed in rodeo in multiple events in junior rodeo associations, the OHSRA, and eventually in amateur rodeo associations, and the women's professional rodeo association.
She has qualified to the WPRA roping division finals in the breakaway, tie down, and barrel racing and in 1994 won the timed event rookie in the WPRA.
Braudrick has recently returned to competition, finding success in her return to the breakaway roping arena.
She has recently competed across the 2022 Rodeo Houston, the Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo, 2021 Pendleton Roundup, Cheyenne Frontier Days and the WPRA World Finals in Waco, Texas.
Since 2013, the Southeastern Rodeo program has boasted four College National Finals Individual Champions and 15 Central Plains Region Event Champions.
In her time at the helm, the program has picked up two Central Plains Region Women's Championships, and one Central Plains Region Men's Championship, and she was named the 2018-19 Central Plains Region Coach of the Year.
She also spearheaded the creation of the Southeastern Rodeo Hall of Fame which was implemented in Fall of 2016, and the Betty Gayle Cooper Ratliff Alumni Rodeo which was implemented in the Fall of 2014.
The rodeo team host many clinics throughout the year and is active within the community of Durant.
She is a 1995 graduate of Southeastern with a BA in social studies education, and received her masters of education from SE in 2013.
Source: https://gosoutheastern.com/news/2022/6/17/rodeo-braudrick-earns-niraa-alumnus-of-the-year-honor.aspx
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