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Date Posted: 13:57:13 10/16/09 Fri
6 Pageant Titles To Be Awarded Sunday At Chattanooga State
by Wendy King
posted October 16, 2009
The Scenic City Pageants and the Hamilton County Scholarship Associations have dominated the last nine Miss Tennessee competitions in Jackson.
For starters, there are the four Miss Tennessee winners including current titleholder Stefanie Wittler of Soddy Daisy and 2008 queen Ellen Carrington, a top seven finalist at January’s Miss America Pageant.
Add five first runners-ups, two second runners-ups, four third runner-ups, three fourth runners-ups, numerous semi-finalists and several preliminary winners in talent and swimsuit and true to the name of his East Brainerd salon, Executive Director Rodney Hullender has made a “Splash” in pageant circles along with his Hamilton County and Chattanooga counterpart Mardi Boone, the owner of Custom Greenery.
One second runner-up is the newly crowned Miss Tennessee USA Tucker Perry, who competed in Jackson in 2007.
However, there is a new merger in Chattanooga – the Scenic City and Hamilton County competitions are now one as six titles – Misses Chattanooga, City Lights, Cleveland, Hamilton County, Metropolitan and Scenic City – will be awarded at the 2010 event Sunday afternoon on the Chattanooga State campus on Amnicola Highway.
Tickets are $12 each and Misses Carrington and Wittler will be the mistresses of ceremonies.
Little wonder that 15 women from across the state will be in the city competing for the six coveted area titles which will ensure their participation at next June’s state pageant.
Misses Wittler and Perry will be among the entertainers. Miss Wittler will be crowning her Miss Hamilton County successor during the finale. In June, Miss Wittler became the first Miss Hamilton County in 27 years to win the state pageant.
The daughter of the first Miss Hamilton County to become Miss Tennessee in 1982 and the first runner-up to Miss America 1983 Desiree Daniels is among the contestants. Hannah Disterdick is a junior at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and a former Tennessee Junior Miss.
Two titleholders will be relinquishing their crowns – Kaley Schwab (Metropolitan and Miss Tennessee fourth runner-up) and Ivy DePew (Chattanooga), but they will also be among the competitors as they are eligible to compete for the titles they haven’t won.
Kayla Hockett, the third runner-up at Miss Tennessee, represented the state at September’s National Sweetheart Pageant as the first Miss City Lights.
UT-Chattanooga student and Miss Tennessee top 10 finalist Chandler Lawson is the outgoing Miss Scenic City. Stacy Reigle, a top 15 finalist who was also the second runner-up at Miss Tennessee USA, is the departing Miss Cleveland.
Due to the awarding of six titles, there will be two judges’ panels with five members each per Miss Tennessee requirements. The panels will interview the contestants and judge them in talent, swimwear, evening gown and the on-stage question.
The contestant lineup along with their ages and school:
Lacey Alford, 22, East Tennessee State University
Britany Boatwright, 20, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Loren Dean, 18, Mississippi State University
Ivy DePew, 19, University of Memphis
Hannah Disterdick, 20, UT-Knoxville
Ashton Doane, 19, UT-Knoxville
Amanda Hassell. 21, University of Tennessee-Martin
Katie Houser, 22, UT-Knoxville
Katie Kendall, 18, Volunteer State
Morgan Moore, 18, UT-Knoxville
Amber Pennycuff, 18, Western Kentucky University
Kendall Schulz, 18, Walters State
Kaley Schwab, 22. Belmont graduate
Brooke Stegeman, 19, UT-Knoxville
Lindsay Timberlake, 23, Tennessee State University
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