SYLACAUGA – Forty-six young ladies from across the state, including one from Cullman County, will compete for the title of Miss Alabama’s Outstanding Teen 2017 and $500,000 in scholarships on March 4-5 at B.B. Comer Memorial High School in Sylacauga. The pageant is the only affiliate of the Miss Alabama Pageant.
Cullman County’s Kirsten Campbell, 15, a sophomore at Holly Pond High School, will be competing.
The winner will receive a $5,000 cash scholarship as well as four-year full tuition scholarships to the University of Alabama, Auburn University, Troy University, the University of Montevallo, the University of North Alabama and Jacksonville State University. Preliminary awards will be presented in talent and evening wear. Awards for excellence in community service and fundraising for Children’s Miracle Network will be made, and contestants will select the recipient of the Miss Congeniality award.
Judges will score the contestants in talent, private interview, evening wear/onstage question, lifestyle and fitness, and scholastic achievement.
Miss Alabama’s Outstanding Teen 2016, Tiara Pennington, is a senior at Helena High School and was a top eight semi-finalist at the Miss America’s Outstanding Teen Pageant in Orlando, Florida, last July.
For more information about the program, visit www.outstandingteen.homestead.com.
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