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Katherine Lacaze
The crowning of Miss Oregon takes place Saturday.
TALENT
AHEAD!
Miss Oregon pageant comes to Seaside
By KATHERINE LACAZE
For Seaside Signal
W
hen the can-
didates
step
onstage during
the Miss Oregon Schol-
arship Pageant, they are
encouraged to stay focused
on one primary goal: Beat-
ing their own best.
“I’ve personally never
felt in competition with
my sisters,” said 16-year-
old Lilly Boothe, Miss
Clatsop County’s Out-
standing Teen from Clats-
kanie. “I truly believe it’s a
battle against yourself. …
I think we’ll all be happy
and supportive of whoever
wins.”
The Miss Oregon
and Miss Oregon’s Out-
standing Teen Competi-
tions kick off with a vari-
ety of preliminary events
Wednesday, Thursday, and
Friday. The final compe-
tition and crowning takes
place Saturday night at the
Seaside Civic and Con-
vention Center.
Twenty-five titlehold-
ers from across the state
are in the running to win
the Miss Oregon crown
and advance to the Miss
America
competition,
while 20 younger candi-
dates compete for Miss
Oregon’s
Outstanding
Teen.
The areas of competi-
tion for the Miss Oregon
candidates include per-
sonal interview, onstage
interview, evening wear
and social impact, and tal-
ent. The top five finalists
also participate in a final
conversation with judges,
where they express why
they are best for the job
of Miss Oregon and how
serving in the role will set
the stage for becoming a
future leader.
The Outstanding Teen
categories also include
private interview and tal-
ent, along with lifestyle
and fitness in active wear,
onstage questions in eve-
ning wear, and scholastic
achievement.
‘Practice, practice,
practice’
Miss North Coast’s
Outstanding Teen Syd-
ney Rapp, of Gearhart, has
prepared rigorously for the
state competition over the
past few weeks leading up
to it.
“I take a section of the
competition every day and
practice, practice, prac-
tice,” she said.
Not only has she
reviewed her tumbling
routine for the talent por-
tion and the group chore-
ography, but also honed
her public speaking and
interviewing skills by hav-
ing her friends or mom
ask her random ques-
gram since she was 12 and
advanced to state for the
first time this year, agreed
she has never felt animos-
ity toward the winners in
the past.
“They’ve always been
the most deserving young
ladies I’ve ever seen,” she
said.
Making a difference
Sydney Rapp
Lilly Boothe (from left), Miss Clatsop County’s
Outstanding Teen; Ranisha Speed, Miss Clatsop County;
and Sydney Rapp, Miss North Coast’s Outstanding Teen
are competing in the Miss Oregon Scholarship Program’s
state competition, which takes place through Saturday at
the Seaside Civic and Convention Center.
tions, mostly pertaining to
her platform of financial
literacy for kids. She is
tying her platform into her
upcoming senior project at
Seaside High School.
Rapp’s favorite part
of the competition is the
talent category, as she’s
been tumbling since she
was 8 and finds it exciting
to share her love for the
activity with the audience.
Although
she
is
focused on the state com-
petition at hand, the Out-
standing Teen candidates
also are aware of the Miss
America’s
Outstanding
Teen competition coming
up July 23 through 27 in
Florida.
“Whoever is going to be
Miss Oregon’s Outstand-
ing Teen has to go to the
national level right away,”
Rapp said. Although she
hopes to be that person,
she reminds herself, “If
you don’t get Miss Ore-
gon’s Outstanding Teen,
someone else will get it,
and they’ve also worked
their hardest.”
Boothe, who has been
competing in the pro-
Miss Clatsop County
Ranisha Speed, of Tilla-
mook, who is compet-
ing in the scholarship pro-
gram for the first time,
said the workshop held in
May was especially useful
for familiarizing the can-
didates with everything
entailed in the state com-
petition. The candidates
also receive ample sup-
port from their local direc-
tors and other participants,
who are touted as a sister-
hood by the Miss Oregon
Scholarship Program.
“Because a lot of
these girls have competed
before, they really offer
support for us first-tim-
ers,” she said.
Although Speed and
the other two dozen can-
didates are all vying to
be Miss Oregon, she feels
staying devoted to her own
improvement and self-em-
powerment enables her
not to feel “the pressure of
competitiveness.”
“All I can do is focus on
myself and appreciate the
women next to me at the
same time,” Speed said.
“I don’t think any person
who doesn’t take away the
crown of Miss Oregon is
at a loss, because we still
have our local title.”
She will continue to
represent Clatsop, Tilla-
mook and Columbia coun-
ties and advance her social
impact platform, The Bet-
ter Me, a nonprofit she
helped establish that is
“designed to bridge the
gap between young adults
and reality.”
The
organization,
based out of Richmond,
Virginia, offers a men-
toring program targeted
toward people ages 15 to
30 who are struggling with
independence. Through
the program, mentors pro-
vide support and guidance
to empower young adults
in areas such as finan-
cial planning, social and
life skills, academic sup-
port, college preparation,
career counseling, and job
and employment training
skills.
Regardless of what hap-
pens with the Miss Ore-
gon competition, Speed
feels each candidate still
benefits from participation
and can continue working
toward the goals they cre-
ated in the process.
“We don’t have to
have a crown to make an
impact,” Speed said.
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