Miss Teen Rodeo Kansas dies in accident that also injured her rodeo teammates

BY MICHAEL STAVOLA
UPDATED OCTOBER 06, 2024 7:05 PM

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The Colby Community College Rodeo Team posted this picture of Emma C. Brungardt on Saturday. Brungardt, the 2024 Miss Teen Rodeo Kansas, died in a wreck on Friday.
Colby Community College Rodeo Team

The 2024 Miss Teen Rodeo Kansas died in a single-vehicle accident on Friday night that injured five others, including her rodeo teammates, in rural Thomas County.

Emma C. Brungardt of Blue Rapids died at the scene of the accident, which was reported at 9:44 p.m. on County Road 21. She was 19.

The driver, an 18-year-old Flagler, Colorado, man driving a 2007 Ford F-250 truck, and four other passengers were all taken to Citizens Medical Center in Colby after they all complained of pain.

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The accident happened at a Y intersection on County Road 21 and a private drive. The driver, headed south, went “between the Y striking a tree row,” a Kansas Highway Patrol trooper wrote in a crash report. The vehicle came to a rest upright, facing south in the tree row.

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Emma C. Brungardt, the 2024 Miss Teen Rodeo Kansas, died in a wreck on Friday that injured four of her teammates on the Colby Community College Rodeo Team. This photo is from her athlete profile at CCC. Courtesy photo Colby Community College

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This story was originally published October 05, 2024 7:59 PM.

MICHAEL STAVOLA
THE WICHITA EAGLE
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Michael Stavola covers breaking news at The Wichita Eagle. He was a finalist for the prestigious Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting in 2022. He’s also won several national, regional and state awards during his seven-plus years of working at newspapers in Kansas. He finished his MBA at Wichita State University in spring 2020.