NONE of the local showgirls have been successful in progressing through to the finals of The Land Sydney Showgirl Competition, which will be judged at the Royal Easter Show in just over a week.
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The Agricultural Societies Council (ASC) of NSW Zone 3, which includes an area from the Victorian boarder on the South Coast over to Tumut, Gundagai, Yass, Boorowa, Crookwell and Taralga, will be represented by Bega Showgirl Jacinta Day and Cobargo Showgirl Stephanie Tarlinton.
The announcement was made at the Goulburn Workers Club on Saturday night by ASC president Geoff Bush in front of an audience of over 200 Show Society representatives, families and friends of the 12 young women who had been named showgirls for their district’s agricultural show.
The aim of the Showgirl Competition is to find a young woman to act as an ambassador for rural NSW, with her role involving many official and informal duties both at the Sydney Royal Easter Show and during the following year in her travels within NSW and overseas.
The contestants are judged on personality, confidence, ambition, life goals, general knowledge, rural knowledge, presentation and speech. Finalists are also asked to demonstrate knowledge of their local community and current affairs and show potential ambassadorial qualities.
They are also judged on their involvement in and experience of rural affairs. Judges for the zone final in Goulburn on Saturday were David Peters from the ASC, Annika Jarman from Courtyard by Marriott and The Land journalist Katana Smith. Showgirl Emma Friend represented Goulburn in the competition,
Taralga’s competitor was Sophie Cummins, with Stephanie Picker from Crookwell and Kathryn Jenkinson from Gunning. From more distant parts around the zone there was Anna Corcoran from Boorowa, Eleanor Windsor from Bungendore, Ellen Mackay from Cooma, Jaimie Henderson from Nimmitabel, Josee Sergi from Queanbeyan and Amelia Thomson from Tumut.
Goulburn Show Society president James Stevenson said he was pleased with the way the day and evening went and thanked everyone involved in organising the event, the first time since 1991.
“It was a lot of hard work by a small but cohesive committee,” Mr Stevenson said.
“Our Zone’s hopes are now resting on Jacinta Day, a receptionist from Bega, with a strong interest in beef cattle farming, and Stephanie Tarlinton from Cobargo, who is studying agricultural business management.
“The Zone final dinner and entertainment that followed was a great opportunity for everyone to socialise, support all the young women who had stepped forward to represent their respective show societies and to wish our Sydney finalists well in the competition next week.”
