Twenty-two-year-old Kimberley Tout said she is delighted to be the 2019 Wauchope Showgirl.
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Ms Tout grew up competing in the horse riding at the Wauchope Show.
"Ever since I was a little girl I would ride in the parade and I would see the girls that would be standing here," Ms Tout said.
They were the role models, the girls I looked up to."
In 2017 she was runner-up as the Wauchope Showgirl.
She felt there was "something unfinished".
"I felt I needed to have another go at it."
Ms Tout said she hopes to inspire young women to persevere with their dreams.
I want to show that it is okay not to always succeed, that you can give things another go, you can always improve and you can always come back.
- Kimberley Tout
Ms Tout works as a teacher at Kempsey West Primary School.
She grew up on a beef cattle farm at Yarras, 45km west of Wauchope.
She said her thoughts were with the farmers out there where it is "very dry, very tough times".
Ms Tout has big hopes for her year as Wauchope Showgirl.
"I want to become a director of the Wauchope Show Society.
"I want to be involved in fundraisers, organisations in the community, really anything I can be a part of that helps the community."
The runner-up of the 2019 Wauchope Showgirl competition is Simone Tucker.
