Stromberger from Iliff is Reserve Champion at NWSS

Bailey Stromberger, Iliff, Colo., and her family at the backdrop celebrating winning Reserve Champion Market Hog at the National Western. Photo by Legacy Livestock Imaging

At the 2026 National Western Stock Show Junior Livestock shows during the inaugural year of the Sue Anschutz-Rodgers Livestock Center, an Iliff teen was awarded the Reserve Champion Market Hog.

Bailey Stromberger was one of the young women who swept all four species of livestock shown at the largest agriculture building bearing the name of a woman.

Stromberger's reserve champion hog was sold at the NWSS Junior Livestock Auction to a record $120,000. Bennie was sold to Transwest Trucks, Inc, owned by George Eidsness, National Western’s current Citizen of the West. Her sister, Allie Stromberger, holds the current record for Grand Champion Hog, which sold for $100,000 in 2020. Bailey shows hogs with her sisters and values the handshake that comes with a big win. She attends Caliche High School and will pursue a career in agriculture.