With seven World and Reserve World Championship titles to her credit, a membership to the National Honor Society, a spot on the UIL Mathematics League and future ambitions to be a plastic surgeon, Paige Stawicki truly knows the meaning of being an all-around competitor.

And now, after showing Paint horses for the past eight years, Stawicki has decided to try her hand at breaking into the modeling world. But, this isn’t her first walk down the runway.

As a young child, she modeled for an Esprit runway show, appeared on “Barney” and was featured in a Neiman Marcus Christmas catalogue.

“I modeled with the Campbell agency when I was four to six years old,” Stawicki says. “Then I got really involved with horses, so modeling had to go on the backburner.”

However, after signing with a Dallas agency on her seventeenth birthday, Stawicki is now a fully contracted model.

She said that her new representation means she is basically “on-call” for people who request her for a photo shoot or casting call. So far, booking events that conflict with horse shows hasn’t been an issue.

“It hasn’t been a problem yet, but if I had to choose, it would definitely be the horse show,” Stawicki says.

While she is excited about her new foray into modeling, Stawicki makes it very clear that her first priority is her five-year-old gray and white overo gelding HR Zip Me. As a team, Stawicki and “Speck” compete in 14-18 all-around events at major Paint Horse shows around the country.

In fact, Stawicki just returned from the Oklahoma Holiday Classic where she won the 14-18 high point title.

As an individual, Speck’s most recent achievement was a World Championship in Jr. Western Pleasure with Randy Wilson and a Reserve title in Jr. Western Riding with Charlie Cole at the 2009 APHA Fall World Championship.

Although she was just signed in October of 2009, Stawicki has already

attended a casting for Paper or Plastik, a t-shirt company, gone on two photo shoots to build up her portfolio, participated into two runway shows and was an extra in a movie.

Stawicki says that she notices a lot of similarities between showing horses and modeling.

Besides the high level of stress and pressure, she says that both involve being judged and having to please people. Whether you are having to model a product to a client’s expectations or ride according to the judge’s expectations, it is a very similar experience.

Also, having competed in horsemanship and equitation classes has helped Stawicki with controlling different parts of her body, which can be very helpful on modeling shoots, she says.

Stawicki is looking forward to doing more print and fashion work in the future, but hasn’t really considered pursuing modeling as a career.

“I would definitely consider it,” she says. “But, I am really set on medical school.”

As far as her goals for the future are concerned, they are threefold.

Education:

• Complete undergraduate degree at Texas A&M.
• Go to medical school.
• Become a plastic surgeon.

Modeling:

• Do more print and fashion shoots.
• Appear in a magazine like Seventeen or Vogue.
• Model for a high end designer like Fendi or Guess.

Horse Showing:

• Continue improving in western riding.
• Add trail as a new event.
• Continue being successful and become a better team.

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