Florence Youree (born April 19, 1933) is a ProRodeo Hall of Fame cowgirl.
[1] She assisted in getting barrel racing into the National Finals Rodeo (NFR), which only had men's events at the time.
Youree's granddaughter, Janae Ward, won the barrel racing world championship in 2003.
In the spring of 1967, Youree had wrangled meetings with Stan Draper and then Clem McSpadden, the general manager.
[3] She was inducted into the Rodeo Hall of Fame of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in 2009.