Bio

Alexa Major Wilcox is entering her first year as the head women's rodeo coach at NMJC. Wilcox joined the T-Birds during the 2022-23 season as an assistant rodeo coach.

Prior to NMJC, Wilcox worked for an international agricultural non-profit. For the 2017-2018 academic school year, Wilcox served as the graduate assistant rodeo coach at Oklahoma State University where she recruited the school’s first collegiate finals qualifying team. Wilcox also competed for Oklahoma State during the 2016-2017 academic year, winning the Fort Hays State University Rodeo in 2017 and finishing in the top 15 in the breakaway roping in the Central Plains Region. She graduated with her Master’s in International Agriculture from OSU in 2018.

Wilcox received her bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Communications from Texas Tech University in the spring of 2016.  She was an active member of the rodeo team during her four-year stint with the Red Raiders. The Fowler, Colorado native competed in breakaway roping, barrel racing, and team roping. Wilcox finished her 2015-16 season in the top ten in the breakaway roping in the Southwest Region, winning the Ranger College Rodeo in 2016 and qualifying for multiple short rounds.

Wilcox comes to NMJC as an amateur and professional breakaway roper with various qualifications to her name, including Short Round qualifications at both the Windy Ryon Memorial and Three Star Memorial breakaway ropings. Recently, Wilcox won the Open Stakes Breakaway at the AQHA World Show in 2022. Coach Wilcox was also included in Cowgirl Magazine’s “30 Under 30” in the Class of 2024. Wilcox and her husband CD have also had ample success in the AQHA Breakaway and Tie-Down classes, winning multiple world championships at various levels. They enjoy breeding and training horses for the roping and cowhorse events and call Lovington, New Mexico home.