Six-Time All Star in Women’s Football Dallas Diamonds Jen Welter Takes the Cowgirl Chick Challenge

Weatherford, TX — March 30, 2011 — The All American Cowgirl Chicks have invited Dallas Diamonds Jen Welter to participate in the Cowgirl Chick Challenge. Welter currently plays in the Independent Women’s Football League (IWFL) for the Dallas Diamonds and is entering her 10th season. Welter has had an impressive career thus far, which has included: winning four World Championships and being voted to the All-Star team six times. In addition, Welter received her bachelor’s degree in Business from Boston College, a Masters degree in Sport Psychology, and is currently working on her dissertation to receive a PhD in Psychology. She is also well respected in the fitness industry, in which she has more than 13 years of experience as an aerobics instructor and personal trainer.

For more information about Jen Welter, visit www.jenwelter.com

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Cowgirl Chicks Never Quit TV Show: Episode 6 – Walt Garrison

Episode #6 highlights Walt Garrison and his new line of Walt Garrison BBQ Rubs products. Mr. Garrison brings his chef out to the Cowgirl Chicks ranch to make a gourmet meal fit for a cowgirl.

The Cowgirl Chicks Never Quit Series airs on RFD-TV RFD-TV on Tuesdays 8:30 p.m. (CST) and repeats Wednesdays 10:30 am CST and Sundays 4:00 p.m. CST.

To find RFD-TV on your channel lineup, visit FIND RFD-TV

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Cowgirl Chicks Participate in Rose Bowl and Equestfest

The Cowgirl Chicks will ride in the parade and perform at Equestfest

“One Nation,” a float dedicated to reconciliation honoring Native American culture, will be the RFD-TV entry in the 2011 Tournament of Roses Parade. The massive float, designed and built by Phoenix Decorating, will pay tribute to the sights and sounds of Native America and will feature Brule’-the award-winning contemporary Native American musical group. RFD-TV and Paul LaRoche, founder of Brule’, hope to create a historic endeavor that will shed a long overdue spotlight on the American Indian culture.

Through this collaboration, both parties hope to connect our global cultures in friendship and in unity, in an effort to support the 2011 Rose Parade® theme of “Building Dreams, Friendships & Memories.” The float, “One Nation,” marks RFD-TV’s third consecutive year as a Rose Parade float participant. Focused around a 35-foot “fancy dancer,” the float stretches an impressive 75-feet in length.

Watch On Television The live broadcast on RFD-TV/RFD HD will begin on New Year’s morning with a one-hour special, “The Making of the ‘One Nation’ Float,” at 10 a.m. (Eastern), 9 a.m. (Central), 8 a.m. (Mountain) and 7 a.m. (Pacific). This program will give viewers a behind-the-scenes look at the start-to-finish process on designing, building and decorating of the float. RFD-TV will also feature on-location interviews with tribal members involved with “One Nation.”

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Cowgirl Chicks participate in the Snowball Express

For the 2nd year, the All American Cowgirl Chicks will be performing at the Mesquite Championship Rodeo for the Snowball Express paying tribute to the children of the men and women who have died while serving in the U.S. military since 9/11. The program was started in December 2006 for nearly 900 family members from across America and the world gathering in southern California.

American Airlines again this year is the official airline for the Snowball Express donating aircraft for bringing these families to Dallas. Each flight will have a member of the Cowgirl Chick team to welcome the families aboard. In 2009, 1,500 family members came to Dallas for the first time.

The Snowball Express activities will be held this weekend and the rodeo event starts at 7 p.m. on Friday. The public is invited to attend the rodeo.

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Rodeo Roadshow/Runway Rubout (Vanity Fair)

by James Wolcott
August 3, 2010

The pleasantest surprise of the television year so far is Lifetime’s underhyped and unheralded On the Road with Austin and Santino, teaming two of the most memorable, personality-plus designers from Project Runway, a creative odd couple that make for a terrific matched set.

Outfitted in perfect little outfits, Austin Scarlett, diminutive and fey, looks as if he could be the guidance counselor from Glee’s long lost brother, the one who taught her everything she knows about pastels and jewelry selection; Santino Rice, tall, husky-voiced, and spaniel-eyed, has a more loping presence and loose, layered look. But both are quick-witted and droll, and make a helluva comedy duo as they tool around the country in this fashion-makeover road movie on the installment plan. (Santino at least resembles a road warrior behind the steering wheel–to many of the locals, Austin looks as if he landed from Venus.)

The staging and shooting of On the Road is a couple cuts above what one might expect, a testament to what a little dash of location scouting and sympathetic imagination can do. The premiere began with Santino and Austin driving up to a grand ranch entrance in Texas, the buildings beyond on the scale of Giant or J. R. Ewing’s Southfork. Their mission is to doll up teenage tomboy Sadie Lynn (such a country-music name!) for the Cowgirl Chicks Ball. She is given a sensational visual intro. Through the windshield the two designers see her whipping around the rodeo ring on horseback like Annie Oakley, twirling from side to side and standing upright. Austin and Santino exchange Omigods and Austin says, in his best Corky St. Clair, “There’s something mythological about this woman and beast.” Sadie dismounts, introduces herself to Santino and Austin and us, and I have to say is completely adorable–all of the Cowgirl Chicks we meet are, and the entire episode recalls Sam Peckinpah’s Junior Bonner in its easy-does-it charm and atmosphere.

Austin and Santino are wisecracky throughout, but there’s nothing patronizing or nasty-spirited about their humor, and they’re greeted and treated with generosity apart from the askance looks that Austin attracts. The sweetness of the series launch was all the more welcome following the sour season 8 premiere of Project Runway, whose judging section had Michael Kors, Nina Garcia, and host Heidi Klum acting almost capriciously, callously harsh and cheap-shotty with the contestants, like three pickles competing for attention from the same jar for Most Quotable Takedown.

Extending the judging portion–the show runs 90 minutes instead of the previous hour-long format–didn’t produce deeper, more detailed analysis, just additional, annoying almost sadistic repetition and reiteration of specific criticisms, as if the contestants standing in the police line-up needed to hear everything in triplicate.

Only Tim Gunn acted like a mensch and avoided a scolding manner and put thought into his words and the effect of his words beforehand. It looks like an incredibly talented, varied slate of competitors this season, but I wonder if Kors and Garcia haven’t been too long in the saddle, their verbal repertoire scratchily limited compared to Sadie Lynn’s exuberant array of tricks.

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Miss Rodeo USA Dakota Missildine Takes Cowgirl Chicks Challenge

Miss Rodeo USA Dakota Missildine will be taking the Cowgirl Chick Challenge and not only go behind the scenes of the Cowgirl Chicks but also train along with them as they prepare to perform for at Equestfest and participate in the Rose Bowl Parade. You can read more about her and follow her journey with the team on her blog.

The Cowgirl Chick Challenge will also be a featured documentary sponsored by RFD-TV and available on DVD in the spring.

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The All American Cowgirl Chicks nominated 2010 PRCA “Specialty Act of The Year”

Congratulations to the All American Cowgirl Chicks for being nominated as PRCA (Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association) Specialty Act of the Year for 2010!

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Sadie Lynn – On the Road with Austin and Santino

The All American Cowgirl Chicks are featured on the season premiere of On the Road with Austin and Santino, a Project Runway Spin-Off. The show airs on Lifetime on Thursday, July 29 (9:30 p.m central), following the highly anticipated premiere of Project Runway Season 8.

“Project Runway” breakout stars Austin Scarlett and Santino Rice have made names for themselves on and off the catwalk with their unique styles and eyes for fashion, working with some of the biggest stars in the business. In “On the Road With Austin & Santino,” the talented designers team up for the first time ever to travel to, and immerse themselves in the culture of, small towns across America to create new, dream-come-true looks for special women in unique situations as they celebrate such life milestones as anniversaries, birthdays, balls, graduations and bachelorette parties.

But with differences in opinion, demanding clients ranging from a rodeo trick-rider to a military officer to a female truck driver, and no access to the latest fashions, will Austin and Santino’s designs make the cut — or will their matchup be a pattern for disaster?

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Bobby Flay features Cowgirl Chicks on BBQ Episode

Get ready for a wild ride with The All American Cowgirl Chicks – the All-women trick riding team that grills and thrills. Plus a BBQ sauce spa treatment that has one woman covered in sauce. How BBQ changed Dallas, the TV show, and a totally Texas red, white, and blue BBQ. BBQ gadget: collapsible grilling tools.

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Bobby Flay and Cowgirl Chicks

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