Jessica Routier

Smoothie was trained by Routier's mother, Shelly Mueller, and Routier competed on the horse during high school and college, winning the College National Finals Rodeo. As of 2021, Smoothie is a 26-year old mare.

As of 2019, Routier has competed in over 58 rodeos. She has earned $643,308 in career winnings as of 2020. She is ranked 7th in the world in barrel racing. She has qualified to the 2018, 2019, and 2020 National Finals Rodeo, and finished 3rd in the average finish for barrel racing at the 2020 National Finals Rodeo, a place she also claimed at the 2020 RAM National Circuit Finals Rodeo.

Fiery Miss West, or "Missy", is Routier's current horse, owned by Westergren. Routier began riding Missy in 2017 as a futurity horse. Routier stated that Missy reminded her of "Smoothie". She has described Missy as special, "had a lot of good qualities that I knew I liked", and "it's natural; the way I want to ride is the way she wants to be ridden." As of 2021, Missy is a 10-year old mare.

In 2017, she won the Badlands Circuit year-end title. In 2018 she finished the year as reserve WPRA World Champion with $251,704 and was second in the NFR average race. She placed in 7 out of 10 rounds at her first Wrangler NFR. In 2019, she entered the Wrangler NFR ranked 8th. She placed in six out of 10 rounds, finished 9th in the average and remained ranked 8th in the world. She won a total of $94,615 at the NFR and finished the year with $191,197 in earnings. In 2020 she finished third in the average at the National Finals Rodeo, scoring 174.59 seconds across 10 runs, winning $82,346. She won the Oregon Trail Rodeo.

Routier met her future husband Riley while attending university in Rapid City, and she was married in 2007. She and her husband have five children: four girls and one boy. Her family usually travels with her to her competitions. Her family lives on a farm where they farm grass and raise cattle; the land is mostly leased from Riley's parents. Her oldest son Braden has competed in the South Dakota High School Rodeo Finals, while her second child Payton also competes in rodeo.

With a rodeo scholarship to National American University in Rapid City, South Dakota, she competed under the tutelage of Glen Lammers and she qualified for the College National Finals Rodeo four times, winning the national barrel racing title in 2003. She graduated in 2006 with a master’s degree in business.

Routier was born Jessica Mueller on June 20, 1983. She grew up in Montfort, Wisconsin. Routier grew up around horses; her mother and father rodeoed a little bit in their college and earlier years, which led her to do every girls event possible. She competed at Little Britches Rodeos and the Wisconsin High School Rodeo Association winning the Wisconsin high school cutting title for four years, the goat tying three years, and the pole bending and breakaway roping twice. She is also a three-time Wisconsin all-around champion.