Pageant Emcee - Creed Roberts

This year's pageant featured a new emcee - Creed Roberts. Creed is an accomplished rodeo announcer from Sealy, Texas. He was raised in the western lifestyle and was president and spokesperson for his high school FFA chapter while being thoroughly involved in the cattle industry. He competed on the Stephen F. Austin State University rodeo team but found his true success in rodeo would be behind the microphone. He has been selected as the voice of the National Bucking Bull Association and has announced at rodeos and events across the United States. Creed is married and has three children, and at home he enjoys working with his rodeo cattle on the Blood Line Bucking Stock Ranches.


I had the opportunity to talk to Creed for a few moments in between events on his busy schedule, to find out what it has been like for him to be the emcee for the Miss Rodeo America Pageant.


Creed says he didn't really know what to expect coming into the pageant. He came in with an open mind, and it is a good thing. Over the course of the events we've seen Creed dance with another man, wear a captain's outfit and a sailor's cap and even jump off a pier to catch the boat. Was it difficult? Sure, Creed said - "I kept drawing the line and telling DeShannon & Jeana 'I ain't gonna do that' ... but in the end I guess I did end up doing that. Somehow the line just kept getting farther and farther away!"


When I asked how it was working with the girls, he says they have been great. "It's all so positive, there's no negative," says Creed. "These are the neatest girls and they've all been really great to work with."


One thing he didn't realize was how many volunteers there are in this organization and how each and every one of them pays their own way to get here, to stay here, and pays for their own tickets to each event. "It's an amazing organization, I had no idea," Creed said.


He feels that his experience as a parent helps him in that he can imagine what the parents are going through, and he tries very hard to be mindful of everything he says and how the parents will perceive it. Creed has a great sense of humor and has had fun at every event. Jeana Allen, Fashion Show Production Coordinator, said she has developed some new muscles from laughing so much with Creed.


While the schedule has been very tight and Creed is with the girls just about all of the time - including late night rehearsals and early mornings; he thinks the schedule is put together just right, and it all works out.


It's been great, he says... it's been a blast!