56th Barraba Young Woman
2024 Barraba Show Young Woman Maddison Taylor & 2024 Runner Up Kaitlyn Smith
The Young Woman Competition aims to find a young female between 18-25 years of age to be an Ambassador for Barraba and the agricultural show movement. The winning Showgirl of each local Show Society is selected by a panel of three judges and remains the Young Woman until the next year’s Show. Her role involves many official and informal duties locally such as public speaking throughout the year and presenting prizes for winners in agricultural events.
The competition is not a beauty pageant. Entrants are judged on personality, confidence, ambition and life goals, general knowledge, rural knowledge, community involvement, presentation and speech. In addition to their potential ambassadorial qualities, contestants are also judged on their genuine interest in rural NSW and their involvement in their local community.
Today, the Young Woman Competition continues to find young rural women with purpose and ambition, and the Competition plays a significant role in the overall development of rural youth, attracting strong support from entrants, sponsors and organizers.
The Barraba Young Woman for 2024 is Maddison Taylor with runner up Kaitlyn Smith. Judging taking place with a luncheon at the Barraba Showground. Judges being Carmen Bennett, Sally Steiger & Christine Penna.
Maddison will now go onto Zone 4 judging in Tamworth on the 10th February 2024 where she will be a wonderful ambassador for the Barraba Show Society & the Barraba community as well as attending a Young Woman Development Workshop in Glenn Innes on the 13 January 2024.
Thank you to everyone for attending the presentation and making it a very enjoyable day and to all girls for entering the competition, we hope that your experience was an enjoyable and rewarding one.
Once again we would like to thank all of the very generous sponsors of the Young Woman competition. These being: DJ Kelly & Co Accountants Barraba, Barraba P A & H Assoc Inc, Bareela Pastoral Co. Barraba, Hart Rural, Babes in the Bush, Dave Penna, Polkadot & Cobbadah Flowers
The competition is not a beauty pageant. Entrants are judged on personality, confidence, ambition and life goals, general knowledge, rural knowledge, community involvement, presentation and speech. In addition to their potential ambassadorial qualities, contestants are also judged on their genuine interest in rural NSW and their involvement in their local community.
Today, the Young Woman Competition continues to find young rural women with purpose and ambition, and the Competition plays a significant role in the overall development of rural youth, attracting strong support from entrants, sponsors and organizers.
The Barraba Young Woman for 2024 is Maddison Taylor with runner up Kaitlyn Smith. Judging taking place with a luncheon at the Barraba Showground. Judges being Carmen Bennett, Sally Steiger & Christine Penna.
Maddison will now go onto Zone 4 judging in Tamworth on the 10th February 2024 where she will be a wonderful ambassador for the Barraba Show Society & the Barraba community as well as attending a Young Woman Development Workshop in Glenn Innes on the 13 January 2024.
Thank you to everyone for attending the presentation and making it a very enjoyable day and to all girls for entering the competition, we hope that your experience was an enjoyable and rewarding one.
Once again we would like to thank all of the very generous sponsors of the Young Woman competition. These being: DJ Kelly & Co Accountants Barraba, Barraba P A & H Assoc Inc, Bareela Pastoral Co. Barraba, Hart Rural, Babes in the Bush, Dave Penna, Polkadot & Cobbadah Flowers
2025 Young Woman CompetitionExpressions of Interest now open for 2025
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2024 Junior Young Woman/ Young ManExpressions now open for the 2024 Junior Young Woman/Man Comp
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Past Young Women / Showgirls
The Barraba Miss Showgirl was first held in 1964 and has been conducted every year since, with the exceptions of 1980 and 2001. Mrs Esme Trotter was the first showgirl coordinator with Ms Chater. Barraba has had one Zone finalist in this time with Annette Hughes in 1969, aged 17, going to Sydney to represent our Zone. On the 8th March 1975 & 22nd February 2014 the Barraba PA &H Association was the host for the Zone 4 Finals. A Junior Showgirl Compeition ran between 1967 and 1975, and has recently been reinstated in 2012.
Barraba hosted the Zone 4 Final for the first time in 1975 and again on the 22nd February 2014.
If you have a showgirl photo you would like to contribute to this gallery, or can name someone we haven't identified, please get in touch.
Barraba hosted the Zone 4 Final for the first time in 1975 and again on the 22nd February 2014.
If you have a showgirl photo you would like to contribute to this gallery, or can name someone we haven't identified, please get in touch.
