Little Miss Dream Girl is FBLA’s big fundraiser
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PHIL CAMPBELL — This year’s Little Miss Dream Girl, presented by the Phil Campbell High School Future Business Leaders of America, took place recently at the Phil Campbell campus of Northwest Shoals Community College.
The pageant is the group’s biggest fundraiser each year to help members be able to attend the state leadership conference in Mobile, where, this year, students will be competing in job interviews, public speaking and client services. Any student placing in the top four at state will advance to the national leadership conference in Anaheim, Calif. in July.
“We greatly appreciate each contestant that participated in our pageant to help us attend these leadership conferences,” said PCHS FBLA advisor Taylor Godsey, who noted this year FBLA members have participated in many projects and community service events.
Godsey said one community service activity completed this school year was creating Christmas and Valentine’s cards for a nursing home.
“Our most recent community service project involves sponsoring a child in need from Compassion International so that we are able to provide that child with supplemental nutrition, medical care, life skills training and educational opportunities,” Godsey explained.
“Our FBLA chapter has a goal of raising $600 to go toward this community service project. If anyone is interested in donating to our community service project, please contact me at Phil Campbell High School.”
Lara Gunderman, a senior at PCHS and president of FBLA for the second consecutive year, served as emcee of Little Miss Dream Girl.
Gunderman currently holds the title of Miss Northwest Shoals Community College. Her other school activities include being a member of the 2024 Franklin County Junior Leadership Class, varsity cheerleader for three years, volleyball for three years, NWSCC Dual Enrollment, Student Council Ambassador, senior class treasurer, the Giving Club, Future Teachers of America, Phi Theta Kappa and the National Honors Society.
She is also a member of the Miss Alabama Class of 2025 and will be competing for the role of Miss Alabama this June as NO. 38 out of 43 contestants.
“We had many FBLA members volunteer their time to make sure our Little Miss Dream Girl Pageant was a success,” Godsey said.
“These members include Ragan Moss, Daylee Trapp, Easton Hutcheson, Hudson Hutcheson, Melanie Gonzalez, Lola Mays, Memoree Hester and Kayden Headlee. We also had our new Miss Dream Girl Queen 2024-2025, Lydia Garrison, and our previous Miss Dream Girl Queen 2023-24, Jaci Sutherland, there to crown the new queens.”
This year’s Teen Miss Dream girl, Saylor Wade is in the sixth grade at Phil Campbell Elementary School. She recently made the junior high cheerleading team at PCHS, where she will also begin junior high basketball this summer. Her pageant experience began last year when she entered the Little Miss Dream Girl pageant.
“She brought home the form for Dream Girl and told me she thought she wanted to do it, so I ran with it,” said Christian Wade, Wade’s mom.
Last year in Little Miss Dream Girl, she received first alternate, People’s Choice and Prettiest Dress. Her next pageant was the Miss 911 pageant in Haleyville where she also received first alternate. Since competing in her second pageant, she has been crowned queen in every pageant she has entered.
Wade’s mom said, “She definitely works hard at it and tries to improve every time.”
The pageants Saylor has won in the past year include Junior Miss Phil Campbell, Miss Summer Belle in Cullman, Watermelon Queen in Russellville, Back to School Queen in Hamilton and Miss Queen of the Season in Falkville.
The Little Miss Dream Girl awards include:
Baby Miss Dream Girl
Avayah Ergle – Queen, Most Photogenic, People’s Choice, and Prettiest Dress Lucianna Trapp – First Alternate, Prettiest Smile, Prettiest Hair
Toddler Miss Dream Girl
Wrenley McAfee – Queen, People’s Choice, Prettiest Smile Livie White – First Alternate, Prettiest Hair Posie Stancil – Second Alternate, Most Photogenic, Prettiest Dress
Tiny Miss Dream Girl
Natalie Kelly – Queen Kensleigh Schmittou – First Alternate, Prettiest Dress Lily Riley – Second Alternate, Most Photogenic Ava Ray – People’s Choice Adaline Haney – Prettiest Smile McKenna Busby Prettiest Hair
Little Miss Dream Girl
Emmy Ricketts – Queen GraceLeigh Schmittou – First Alternate, Prettiest Dress Saygen Sanderson Second Alternate Willa Hood – Most Photogenic Vilah Fugate – People’s Choice Charlie Fuller – Prettiest Smile Adayah Morgan Prettiest Hair
Young Miss Dream Girl
Knoxlee Taylor – Queen, Prettiest Smile Jaci Lee Moutelle – First Alternate, Most Photogenic Paizlee Hammond Second Alternate Amayah Evans – People’s Choice Evelyn Carreto – Prettiest Hair Maddie Miller – Prettiest Dress
Junior Miss Dream Girl
Callie Kate Nix – Queen, Most Photogenic, People’s Choice, Prettiest Dress Piper Cochran – First Alternate, Prettiest Smile Sipsey Barnett – Second Alternate, Prettiest Hair
Teen Miss Dream Girl
Saylor Wade – Queen Avery Burks – First Alternate, Prettiest Dress Anna Lane Moutelle Second Alternate, Most Photogenic Renzie Jade Thompson – People’s Choice, Prettiest Hair Maddie Drew Welborn Prettiest Smile
