Phil Campbell High School crowns 50 Dream Girls – and counting
Arianna Medina, Pre-K, is crowned Pre-K/kindergarten Little Miss Dream Girl.
Cheyann Nix, first grade, is crowned first/second grade Little Miss Dream Girl.
Kyli Mather, third grade, is crowned third/fourth grade Little Miss Dream Girl.
Raegan Misner is crowned fifth/sixth grade Little Miss Dream Girl.
Junior Miss Dream Girl winners (left to right) are: fourth alternate Katelyn Frazier, eighth grade, who also received prettiest smile; first alternate Grace-Lyn Habada, eighth grade, who also received best poise and appearance and the academic award; Junior Miss Dream Girl Harley Cummings, eighth grade, who also received best interview, Miss Congeniality and eighth grade representative, second alternate Mary Kathryn Swinney, seventh grade, who also received prettiest hair; and third alternate Josie Warhurst, seventh grade, who also received photogenic, best evening gown and seventh grade representative.
Miss Dream Girl winners (left to right) are: Dream Girl ambassador Emma Duncan; third alternate Chloe Carpenter, 10th Grade; first alternate Anna Benford, 11th grade, who also received best evening gown and 11th grade representative; Miss Dream Girl Taylor Hallman, ninth grade, who also received prettiest hair, photogenic and ninth grade representative; second alternate Jenna Sharp, 11th grade, who also received best poise and appearance; fourth alternate Lexi Crittenden, 10th grade, who also received Miss Congeniality and 10th grade representative; Karlee Faust, prettiest smile and the academic award and Reyna Wingo, best interview and 12th grade representative.
PCHS has crowned 50 Miss Dream Girls to date – including the 2017 Miss Dream Girl, Taylor Hallman, crowned in fall 2017.
The pageant is currently a PCHS Student Council-sponsored event and fundraiser for the organization.
Along the way, the pageant has incorporated a few tweaks in efforts of improvement, but nothing has changed about the Dream Girl standard over the past 50 pageants, according to coordinator Brandi Gholston. Each contestant goes through an interview as well as the formal beauty competition. Academic achievement is also a factor.
Not only does a Dream Girl win on grace and style on stage, she proves herself through the interview process as well.
Some of the other awards in the competition include Miss Congeniality, which is chosen among contestants, along with Audience Choice, voted on by spectators. Participants also compete in evening gown, poise and appearance, best hair, academic award, best smile and photogenic.
Only girls from Phil Campbell High School compete in this pageant.
A junior high competition provides the stage for girls in seventh and eighth grades. The top title of Miss Dream Girl is awarded to a girl from grades nine through 12.
Once a girl is crowned Dream Girl, she doesn’t compete again.
One thing Gholston wanted to implement after becoming Phil Campbell High School’s guidance counselor three years ago was a Little Miss Dream Girl Pageant for the elementary girls. The second annual Little Miss Dream Girl event, for girls in Pre-K through sixth grade, was held this year.
“The Little Miss Dream Girl Pageant is designed to mimic the Dream Girl pageant, with the exception of the interview, in which these little girls do not compete,” Gholston explained.
