Junior Rodeo Royalty

Queen

Jaina Johnson

Jaina Johnson is a 14-year-old from Lehi with a love and passion for rodeo. She was honored to represent the Lindon Days Junior Rodeo as its second attendant in 2024. Jaina was also a former queen for the City of Highland. Jaina has a dream of someday competing for the title of Miss Rodeo Utah and hopefully Miss Rodeo America.

Beyond rodeo, Jaina is an artist with many hobbies ranging from drawing to painting and even crochet! Crochet is one of Jaina’s biggest hobbies. She has sold items at three craft shows already and also has an online business with a website.

Jaina has experience in rodeo queening, barrel racing, 4-H, horsemanship, rodeo grand entries and more. Her love for animals — especially horses — drives her every day. Rodeo queening has always had a special place in Jaina’s heart. She loves being able to teach and represent the sport she has such love and passion for. One of her favorite aspects of rodeo queening is being someone to look up to for all the young cowgirls. Jaina is a girl of many dreams and talents that she hopes to share with the world.

First Attendant

Carlie Nielson

Carlie Nielson would rather be riding a horse than anything else. Even though that is where she wants to be 24/7, she is very responsible and dedicated to various projects and gives 110% to everything she puts her mind to. Carlie has been training a young mustang for three years. She also recently started bottle feeding a young calf after its mom passed away unexpectedly. Her goal is to train it and take it to the county or state fair next year.

Carlie is also very diligent with her studies and continues to be on the high honor roll at Pleasant Grove

High School. She has been working for Lindon City for the past year teaching various classes to children ages 7 through 12. She absolutely loves seeing the students she has taught around town at the other city events where she has been a positive role model. She is currently a junior and looking forward to being a senior next year! Carlie truly loved being in the Lindon Rodeo Royalty this past year and is very grateful for those who helped make it such a fun experience.

Second Attendant

Emma Hopkins

Emma Hopkins is 17 years old and is the daughter of Emily and Brigham Hopkins. She lives in Lindon and is the third of seven children. She currently attends Pleasant Grove High School as a junior and has been on high honor roll since seventh grade.

She also has a certificate of achievement in CAD mechanical design, digital business, and manufacturing technology. Her hobbies consist of drawing, baking, and of course, horse riding.

She has loved horses from the time she was very little. Her mother remembers her even at 2 years old wanting “all things horses.” Emma was 12 years old when she talked her parents into letting her take riding lessons. They agreed under the condition that she paid for at least half of her lessons. Emma started putting all of her hard-earned dollars from working in their family business toward learning how to ride. She quickly learned that riding made her feel free; it was an escape from real life. Emma continued to save money and bought her first horse at the age of 15. She is riding that horse, Bandit, today. Emma loves her time with Bandit and learning about the western way of life. Emma has always been a cowgirl at heart and is paving the path toward the rodeo way of life for her family!