CONTESTANT REGISTRATION
STEPS T0 ENTER
- Email your interest to notify the Pageant and be placed on the official e-mail list (misscollierville@aol.com). We have workshops prior to December 1 and you will want to be included on the invitiation.
- Download the Paperwork packet of information and save to your computer desktop (See steps below)
- Follow the instructions and begin completing the paperwork.
- MISS CONTESTANTS ONLY: Raise $100 for the Children’s Miracle Network (See steps below). No other entry fee is required
- TEEN CONTESNTANTS: There is a $75 entry fee payable to the Miss Collierville Scholarship Organization at the time forms are due.
- Any contestant is invited to purchase advertising for the program book. (See steps below)
- Send in all official paperwork by December 1 deadline.
CONTESTANT REGISTRATION PACKET & APPLICATION
Download a complete Contestant Information Packet/Application by following these steps:
- Right Click on the link below and “Save Target As” to your desktop.
- Save the packet to your desktop
- Print it out and Review the information.
- When you’re ready to send in your application:
- Resave the packet under a new file name. Example: “2008 Miss Collierville: MARY SMITH.”
- Delete all the miscellaneous information, leaving only the application and information you are to complete.
- Save the final application and e-mail to misscollierville@aol.com.
- Complete instructions are contained within the document. You will find a sample below for your reference.
Right Click on this link and “Save Target As” to your desktop.
Contestant Packet
QUALIFICATIONS
What type of young women is best prepared to win one of these titles?
She is a role model who cares about her role and other women’s roles in society. She is attractive and poised woman with a confident and commanding presence. She is talented and intelligent, and she is an independent and eloquent communicator. She is a leader by virtue of her experiences and takes pride in her health and physical fitness.
As Miss Collierville, you will be the official hostess for our city. You will gain through the rich personal experience of meeting and associating with many exciting people from across the city and across the state of Tennessee.
Miss Collierville will participate in the Miss Tennessee Scholarship Pageant held in Jackson next June. The winner of the Miss Tennessee Scholarship Pageant travels to the Miss America Pageant. The Teen winner will also serve as the official teen hostess and compete in the Miss Tennessee Outstanding Teen Scholarship Pageant in on Martin on . At each level, winners and alternates receive hundreds of dollars in scholarship money, which will help you, further your education.
QUALIFICATIONS
For Miss Collierville
To enter the Miss Collierville Scholarship Pageant, or any other Miss America local preliminary, contestants must meet certain basic requirements and agree to abide by all the rules of the local, state and national Miss America Pageants now in effect or as announced hereafter. To be a contestant in the Miss Collierville Scholarship Pageant, you must:
- Be a female
- Be at least 17 years old on January 5, 2008
- Be no older the 24 years old on September 30, 2008
- Be a high school graduate by June 30, 2008
- Be a resident, attend a college or university; or be a full-time employee in Shelby County
- Not be married, never have been married, never have had a marriage annulled, never cohabitated or have a child.
- Be available for public appearances during 2008
- Compete in Interview, On-Stage Question, Talent, Swimsuit and Evening Wear Competitions
Complete contestant qualifications are found in the official contract and information packet.
For Miss Collierville Outstanding Teen
- Be a female
- Be at least 13 years old on January 5, 2008
- Be no older the 17 years old on September 30, 2008. If you are going to college in the Fall of 2008, you are not eligible to be in the Outstanding Teen Program.
- Be a citizen of the United States of America
- Be of good moral character
- Be a resident of Shelby County.
- Not be married, never have been married, never have had a marriage annulled, never cohabitated or have a child.
- Be available for public appearances during 2008
- TEEN DIVISION: Compete in Talent, Interview, On-Stage Question, Fitness Wear and Evening Wear Competitions
Complete contestant qualifications are found in the official contract and information packet.
SCORING
Interview 25%
On-stage Question 5%
Lifestyle and Fitness in Swimsuit 15%
Talent (2-Minute time Limit) 35%
Evening Wear 20%
Total 100%
Scoring for the Miss and Teen divisions are the same. In the Miss division, these competitions will select the top five. The judges will then rank the contestants in the order they individually believe the contestants should finish on a final ballot.
ADVERSTISING
You are invited to sell advertising to show your how your community is supporting you. All advertising must be submitted by December 1 and should include any artwork that you would like in your ad. Photos are only accepted on Full Page Ads.
Business Card Size = $25
1/4 Page = $50
½ Page = $100
Full Page - $150
Children’s Miracle Network Obligation
The Miss America Organization is proud to support the Children’s Miracle Network. Locally, our CMN hospital is Le Bonheur Children’s Medical Center.
All local contestants are required to raise $100. This is done through a cool web site and by e-mail. All funds must be raised before the start of the pageant.
All contestants must register at www.MissAmerica4Kids.org. This easy to use web site will allow you to upload a photo and input the e-mail addresses of your family and friends. E-mails will automatically be sent to your e-mail list asking for contributions. You can monitor the results, and send out additional e-mails as needed. All monies raised are by credit card contributions directly to the Children’s Miracle Network.
Donations, in excess of the minimum amount required for each pageant, collected by a contestant, may be rolled-over for use in multiple Local pageants to State & National pageants within a pageant cycle.
If you have already been in a local pageant since June 2007, then follow the directions below:.
- Contestants need to raise a minimum of $100 per local pageant entered
- Returning contestants (those who have already participated in a pageant from June 2007 through December 2007) must register on line for each local pageant entered by going to MissAmerica4Kids.org and logging into their CMN personal page and selecting the new pageant for the title that they are then currently competing for
- If you were involved in the Miss America Pageant system last pageant cycle (June 2006 through May 2007 leading to the 2007 Miss Tennessee title), a new ID is needed when the contestant enters their first Local Pageant of the Pageant Cycle.
- That ID chosen for the first Local Pageant will be used by that contestant throughout the pageant season for that pageant cycle.
- DO NOT create a new ID for each pageant within a pageant cycle.
- Any donations collected, in excess of the $100 for Pageant 1, will automatically roll-over into the contestants excess account and will be used toward their fundraising goal for Pageant 2. Any excess funds from Pageant 2 will automatically roll-over and will be used toward their fundraising goal for Pageant 3, etc.
- When changing the “Pageant competing for:” do not change your ID.
- Donations, in excess of the minimum amount required for each pageant, collected by a contestant, may be rolled-over for use in multiple local pageants to State & National pageants within a pageant cycle.
- No funds are rolled over from the prior pageant cycle which means everyone is at the same starting place for 2008 pageant season (June 2007- May2008).
