Christi Braudrick took over the Southeastern rodeo program in the summer of 2013.

Braudrick is a Southeastern graduate who competed as a member of the rodeo team from 1992-95 under legendary coach Betty Gayle Cooper-Ratliff and was a member of the 1994 team that finished national runner-up at the College National Finals Rodeo.

She currently presides as the Roping Director and serves ont he Board of Directors of the Women's Professional Rodeo Association and is the Vice President of the NIRA Alumni Association.

Professionally, Braudrick was the Prairie Circuit Breakaway Roping Champion in 2023, and is a two-time Average Champion in the breakaway on the Prairie Circuit, a four time Prairie Circuit Finalist itn eh Breakaway and a two-time NFR Open Circuit National Finalist. 

While guiding the Savage Storm rodeo squads, she has overseen four national champions, 27 event region champions, posted four team regional titles with the men and two with the women.

Braudrick has been an educator throughout Oklahoma and Texas since 1997, and has coached multiple sports while also facilities, fundraising and community programs.

She served as unit director for the Boys and Girls Club from 2001-06, and during this time implemented horseback riding, roping and elementary basketball programs.

As a student she taught western and equestrian riding through continuing education course, while also helping to manage the equine, livestock and facility grounds. She also helped conduct rodeo camps and clinics.

As a teacher, she and her students have been well recognized for their success both athletically and academically.

She has also served as the junior rodeo association directors for breakaway roping in both Texas and Oklahoma.

Braudrick competed in rodeo in multiple events in junior rodeo associations, the OHSRA, and eventually in amateur rodeo associations, and the women’s professional rodeo association. 

She has qualified to the WPRA roping division finals (PWRA) in the breakaway, tie down, and barrel racing and in 1994 won the timed event rookie in the WPRA.

Since 2013, the Southeastern Rodeo program has boasted four College National Finals Individual Champions and 15 Central Plains Region Event Champions.

In her time at the helm, the program has picked up two Central Plains Region Women’s Championships, and one Central Plains Region Men's Championship, and she was named the 2018-19 Central Plains Region Coach of the Year.

She also spearheaded the creation of the Southeastern Rodeo Hall of Fame which was implemented in Fall of 2016, and the Betty Gayle Cooper Ratliff Alumni Rodeo which was implemented in the Fall of 2014.

The rodeo team host many clinics throughout the year and is active within the community of Durant. 

She is a 1995 graduate of Southeastern with a BA in social studies education, and received her masters of education from SE in 2013.