06/20/19 Raleigh, NC – Preliminary competitions continued tonight at Raleigh’s Memorial Auditorium for the 2019 Miss North Carolina Competition. Preliminary On Stage Interview Award: Miss Jacksonville, Alexandra Badgett Preliminary Talent Award: Miss Charlotte, Autumn Hubbard North Carolina Electric Membership Association Cooperative STEM Scholarships: Miss Orange County, Ashton Blackburn Miss Cabarrus County, Deja Grant Miss Capital City, Grace […]
06/19/19 Raleigh, NC – Preliminary competitions kicked off tonight at Raleigh’s Memorial Auditorium for the 2019 Miss North Carolina Competition. The Miss North Carolina Organization implemented a state level Quality of Life program modeled after the opportunity presented at Miss America each year. The five semi-finalists were: Alexandra Badgett, Miss Jacksonville Elizabeth O’Brien, Miss Moore County Tiffany Rush, […]
04/14/19 High Point, NC – Karlee Sanderford, previously Miss Garner’s Outstanding Teen, was crowned Miss North Carolina’s Outstanding Teen 2019 this weekend. Sanderford is the daughter of David and Kelli Sanderford of Clayton. Her platform was “Show The Love- Caring for Orphans Around the World.” Sanderford performed a jazz dance to “Proud Mary.” She will […]
04/11/19 High Point, NC – The Miss North Carolina Scholarship Organization will host the 2019 Miss North Carolina’s Outstanding Teen Competition this weekend in High Point, North Carolina. As a state preliminary to the Miss America’s Outstanding Teen, thirty-five young women from across North Carolina will compete for the crown and thousands of dollars in […]
RALEIGH, N.C. (February 4, 2019) — Russo Dentistry has been named the headline sponsor for the Miss North Carolina 2019 Broadcast. The Miss North Carolina Organization has maintained a commitment for the last 81 years to empower North Carolina’s young women to achieve their academic and career ambitions – a partnership is made possible by the […]
2018 brought some of my life’s greatest successes; graduation from Clemson University, earning the job of Miss North Carolina, competing on the Miss America stage, paying off educational debt, serving as an ambassador of the Miss America 2.0 rebranding, visiting every Children’s Miracle Network Hospital in the state and shaping my own legacy in an […]
Could you be a titleholder in the Miss America Organization? Why not? So often the public sees titleholders only as what they take away from a final night broadcast of a state or national pageant believing that is all there is to being a titleholder. Seeing what essentially is only the ceremony of a real-life […]
A group of people, two in particular, are heavily on my mind today as the hours draw shorter and shorter to a very special anniversary for me. Tonight, I have the distinct privilege of serving as the Mistress of Ceremonies for the 2019 Miss Randolph County Scholarship and Outstanding Teen Competitions. My mind takes me back […]
The Miss America Organization provides scholarship rewards for educational purposes to young women who learn from the programs many facets; those that have the potential to empower young women and those that indeed challenge them greatly. This is not a giveaway of funds by any means. This is a comprehensive learning experience wherein a young […]
The door opens today for my opportunity to be Miss America 2.0 for 2019. Beginning the competition with my interview; my chance to tell the judges why it is necessary they elect me to the office of a social change agent championing my social impact initiative, women’s issues, and the Children’s Miracle Network, my competition […]
