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Texas A&M University junior Courtney Eoff, a marketing major from Rockdale, earned the top spot for “Best Original Song” in the 2020 jingle contest for the “Don’t Mess With Texas” anti-littering campaign.
Her 30-second song was chosen from more than 130 entries. She joins musicians including fellow Aggie Lyle Lovett in promoting the campaign, launched by the Texas Department of Transportation in 1985.
Eoff said she comes from a musical family and “was humming before I could even talk.” She grew up listening to country and western icons like Willie Nelson, George Strait and LeAnn Rimes, whose jingles also have been used in the campaign over the years.
Aggie sophomore wins state jingle contest
Student s song says Don t Mess With Texas!
A Texas A&M student and Rockdale native won a jingle contest put on by the state, for the Don t Mess With Texas anti littering campaign.
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COLLEGE STATION, TX â Courtney Eoff, a sophomore studying at the Mays Business School of Texas A&M, has been playing and composing country music since she was a child. Her skills were really put to the test in late 2020, when she entered a song writing contest for Donât Mess With Texas, the anti-littering campaign hosted by the Texas Department of Transportation.
While I do hope to pursue music full time, I value education, the sophomore said.
This wasn t Eoff s first win. In 2019 she and a friend won the Houston Rodeo Rockstar competition. Now thanks to the song search competition, she said she ll be able to make more music with her prize. I ended up winning a $5,000 at-home recording studio and I don t know, I would never be able to go out and buy something like that for myself, Eoff said.
She comes from generations of Texans and she said she s proud to be from the Lone Star state and she s honored to have been chosen to be part of the campaign.
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