Miss Virginia's Caressa Cameron Crowned Miss America
Miss Virginia Caressa Cameron has been crowned Miss America 2010. Caressa is pursuing a degree in broadcast communications in Virginia Commonwealth University. Caressa's platform is "Real Talk: AIDS in America" according to her bio on the Miss Virginia website.
Caressa believes strongly in her message, "Real Talk: AIDS in America". She is the Coordinator of Youth Services for the Fighting the AIDS Crisis with Education and Support (FACES) Project and she served on the steering team which brought the Ora-Sure HIV (Oral) Antibody Test to the State of Virginia. In addition, she organized an effort to persuade public school officials to establish AIDS-targeted sex education in middle schools. She has spoken to over 10,000 students in more than 40 middle and high schools across Virginia. For her efforts, she was the recipient of the President's Volunteer Service Award and she was presented with a Congressional Honor for her community service endeavors in Virginia. Community service has always been a part of Caressa’s life and, in high school, she received the Fellowship of Christian Athletes award for integrity, service, teamwork, and excellence.
Here is a list of the top five in the Miss America competition.
Miss Virginia, Caressa Cameron
Miss California, Kristy Cavinder
Miss Tennessee, Stefanie Wittler
Miss Louisiana, Katherine Putnam
Miss Kentucky, Mallory Ervin
Last year the winner was Miss Indiana, Kate Stam -- see here.
Carrie Prejean talked with Sean Hannity about her latest scandal: her sex tape. Carrie has a new book out, for which Sean wrote the introduction. Carrie is 22 years old and the sex tape was made when she was a teenager. Carrie says the tape is of her alone in her room and that she made it for her boyfriend at the time that she loved. There was no one else in the room. If Carrie really made the tape when she was a teen, it will never be aired because she's underage. TMZ decided not to run the video and that's probably why. Take a look:
Miss Indiana Katie Stam has been crowned Miss America. 22-year-old Katie Stam is currently a a communications major at the University of Indianapolis. She won the competition despite suffering from laryngitis. You can read more about her here on the Miss Indiana website and here on Miss America's official site.
There's also a bio here of Katie Stam on the University of Indianapolis website where Katie says the Miss America competition is much more than a beauty pageant.
Katie Stam has heard her share of cynical comments about "beauty pageants," even from close relatives, but she's quick to correct any misconceptions.
"The Miss America pageant is a scholarship pageant," says Stam, a University of Indianapolis senior who will be vying for that storied crown in January after winning the Miss Indiana title on June 21. "It's so much more than standing onstage and being poised."
Stam, who turns 22 in July, has the resume to back up that statement, being listed on the honor roll and active in student government at UIndy. But as it turns out, she is especially good at being poised onstage, as well as on camera.
In her college career, she's been one of the top broadcasting students in the Department of Communication, acting first as news director and more recently as operations manager for startup campus cable station UIndy TV. This spring, she helped lead her classmates to an underdog win in the Indiana Association of School Broadcasters annual college competition, seizing the TV School of the Year title from much larger competitors. Stam herself took home first-place honors in both the TV News Anchor and TV News Package categories. She also was among six UIndy students to win national recognition this year in the Broadcast Education Association's annual competition, sharing second place in the TV Hard News Reporting category.
Congratulations Katie!
Update 1-30-10: Miss Virginia Caressa Cameron has been crowned Miss America 2010.
Miss America 2008 Kristen Haglund Says Confidence is a Beautiful Thing
Miss America 2008 Kirsten Haglund shares her best beauty tip. She says confidence is "the most beautiful thing that someone can possess." Haglund opened up last year about her dangerous battle with anorexia. Her parents helped her through it and she made eating disorder awareness her Miss America platform. Kirsten has been blogging here for the Miss America website.
