Miss Teen USA Report

July 22, 2010

 

 

Jacqueline Carroll, Miss Virginia Teen USA 2010; Shelby Layne Gregoire, Miss Vermont Teen USA 2010; Ally Brandfass,

Miss West Virginia Teen USA 2010; Kirsten Norderhaug, Miss Wisconsin Teen USA 2010; Camilla Ree Cyr, Miss

Washington Teen USA 2010; Angelia Nichole Layton, Miss Utah Teen USA 2010; Chelsea Morgensen, Miss

Texas Teen USA 2010; Alyssa Ann Hustrulid, Miss South Dakota Teen USA 2010; Caroline Scott, Miss Wyoming

Teen USA 2010; and Kristen Rose, Miss Tennessee Teen USA 2010, at Dolphin Cay at ATLANTIS,

Paradise Island, Bahamas on Wednesday, July 21, 2010.

 

 

 

DAY NUMBER ONE IN PARADISE

Our National Championship of Teenage Pageantry is underway in the exotic location of Atlantis in the Bahamas. The delegates checked into their rooms on Tuesday night and registered Wednesday morning, the official kickoff to the pageant weekend. They hit the ground running as it was immediately time to put on the swimsuits and enjoy the water paradise backyard. After a session meeting the Dolphins and Sea Lions it was into the ballroom for rehearsals the rest of the day.

 

Our Miss Florida Teen USA 2010 Alyssa Rivera is having a blast as her family joined her for a vacation prior to joining the festivities. Wednesday night was a delegate and family dinner then time to get some rest for another hectic day on Thursday. We will be landing on the island this afternoon and will upload pix to our www.Flickr.com/MissFloridaUSA site as well as our traditional daily postings from the Island concluding on Monday.

 

 

 

Swimming at Dolphin Cay

 

 

 

Kirsten Norderhaug, Miss Wisconsin Teen USA 2010; Caroline Scott, Miss Wyoming Teen USA 2010; Alyssa Ann Hustrulid, Miss South Dakota Teen USA 2010; Chelsea Morgensen, Miss Texas Teen USA 2010; and Angelia Nichole Layton, Miss Utah Teen USA 2010, at Dolphin Cay at ATLANTIS, Paradise Island, Bahamas on Wednesday, July 21, 2010. They are in the Bahamas in preparation for the Miss TEEN USA 2010 competition which will be held in the Imperial Ballroom at ATLANTIS, Paradise Island, Bahamas on Saturday, July 24, 2010.

 

 

 

Taylor Hubbard, Miss Kentucky Teen USA 2010; Caroline Marie Wade, Miss Georgia Teen USA 2010; Hosanna Noelle-Leilani Kabakoro, Miss Idaho Teen USA 2010; Brianna Waguespack, Miss Louisiana Teen USA 2010; Lexi Atkins, Miss Illinois Teen USA 2010; Madeline Plesac, Miss Indiana Teen USA 2010; Norissa Morse, Miss Maine Teen USA 2010; Erica Lansman, Miss Iowa Teen USA 2010; Julianne Chu, Miss Hawaii Teen USA 2010; and Olivia Harlan, Miss Kansas Teen USA 2010, pose on Poseidon's Throne

 

 

 

 

Angelia Nichole Layton, Miss Utah Teen USA 2010

 

 

 

Ally Brandfass, Miss West Virginia Teen USA 2010 / Alyssa Ann Hustrulid, Miss South Dakota Teen USA 2010 /

Kristen Rose, Miss Tennessee Teen USA 2010

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday Rehearsals

 

Alyssa Rivera, Miss Florida Teen USA 2010; and Faith Annelies Cortez, Miss New Mexico Teen USA 2010, rehearse on Wednesday, July 21, 2010 in preparation for the Miss TEEN USA 2010 competition / Producer/Choreographer Kent Parham rehearses with Amanda Soltero, Miss Nebraska Teen USA 2010; Jeneffer Lopez, Miss District Of Columbia Teen USA 2010; and Catherine McGhee, Miss Michigan Teen USA 2010 / Norissa Morse, Miss Maine Teen USA 2010

 

 

Alyssa Rivera, Miss Florida Teen USA 2010; Alyssa Taglia, Miss Connecticut Teen USA 2010;

and Faith Annelies Cortez, Miss New Mexico Teen USA 2010

 

 

 

Erica Lansman, Miss Iowa Teen USA 2010, Elena LaQuatra, Miss Pennsylvania Teen USA 2010; Amanda

Soltero, Miss Nebraska Teen USA 2010; and Alyssa Ann Hustrulid, Miss South Dakota Teen USA 2010

 

 

 

 

 

 

GETTING TO KNOW: MISS IDAHO TEEN USA

 

After witnessing 30 machete-armed men raid her home during the Fiji coup in 2000, an eight-year old Hosanna Kabakoro relocated with her family from Naweni village in Cakaudrove to the northwestern state of Idaho, USA, almost 10,000km away. “For a long time, it was horrible,” Kabakoro, now 18, says of her experience. She adds that the man responsible for the takeover of their land is still living in her childhood home today and authorities have failed to resolve the issue: “We are left not being able to return to the home we worked so hard to build.” But while the memory is painful, the budding journalist has since made a name for herself in her new domicile. After winning the Miss Teen Idaho contest last October, Kabakoro is revved up to represent her home state in the Miss Teen USA pageant next week. The Fijian-American teen, who holds dual citizenship, currently leads the online voting poll out of 51 contestants. “I know people sometimes think pageants are filled with transformer-like-Robo-Barbies, who smile and wave and give automated answers to questions. That has not been my experience at all,” Kabakoro told Pacific Scoop.

 

 

 

Hosanna Kabakoro recognized by former First Lady Laura Bush for her volunteer

work at the Prudential Spirit of Community Awards in Washington DC.

 

 

She added her hopes are to “represent the ever-changing face of the American teenager.” Her track record is far from a stereotypical beauty queen. In addition to being a 4.0 homeschooler, she has been recognized as one of American’s top 50 high school volunteers, a Congressional Award Gold Medalist and winner of the Prudential Spirit of Community Award, Jefferson Award and Girl Scout Gold Medal Award. Kabakoro also founded ‘2 Way Street’, a program to help refugee and at-risk immigrant youth adjust to life in the U.S through mentorship and community service. “I volunteer because that is how I was raised… Community service is a way of life in our family,” she says. Her parents, Ratu Lavisai Kabakoro and wife Summer, originally from Hawai’i, ran a free medical clinic and a learning centre while in Fiji. “Other than the coups, every memory I have of Fiji is fond… Being Fijian, and having spent my childhood in a rural village has made me recognize that wealth does not automatically result in happiness, nor does not having a lot of material stuff mean people can’t be happy!” she adds.

 

Kabakoro says she entered the Miss Teen pageant as a springboard to a career as a broadcast journalist and political correspondent. “I love politics because they affect every aspect of our lives. I also believe the media holds tremendous potential to inform and educate. It can be used responsibly or it can be used for propaganda,” she says, adding that either way, she admires the American free press in allowing people to form their own conclusion on policies. Currently working at FOX-KLIX Radio news and CBS affiliate KMTV as an intern, Kabakoro says she would like to eventually work as a reporter for Fiji TV and The Fiji Times. She has been invited to speak at the Fiji Children’s Day Awards and is planning to visit Fiji this November.