Candidate and Little Sister applications are now available for the 2022 Best of the West competition to be held Saturday, November 13, 2021 at 6 P.M. at the Alliance High School PAC. Formerly the Miss Alliance/Miss Chadron Miss and Outstanding Teen pageant, the Best of the West competition is excited to be back after taking a year off due to Covid.
The teen competition is open to all female Nebraska residents who are at least 13 years old (by June, 2022) and no older than 17 and actively enrolled in high school by June of 2022. The miss competition is open to all female Nebraska residents who are at least 17 years old by June 2022 and a high school graduate and no older than 26 by December 2022.
This year, teen and miss candidates will be judged based on interview, talent, eveningwear on-stage question with teens competing in physical fitness and miss in a separate social impact statement competition. There will also be a separate overall community service competition, audience choice award, and Miss Congeniality voting that do not count in the overall scoring. A silent auction will also take place during the competition.
The Best of the West competition is an official local under the Miss Nebraska and Miss Nebraska’s Outstanding Teen Competition. It is designed to promote scholastic achievement, creative accomplishment, healthy living and community involvement for America’s young women. Along with scholarships, crowns and prizes, the winners of the Best of the West competition will compete for the title of Miss Nebraska and Miss Nebraska’s Outstanding Teen in June, 2022.
The competition is also seeking girls ages kindergarten through 5th grade to participate in our Little Sister program. Little sisters will be paired with the contestants for the competition and will dance on stage and escort their contestant during eveningwear.
For more information, contact Riki at 308-430-4355 or miss.alliance.pageant@gmail.com . Contestant and little sister deadline is Monday, November 1.