Could Miss Mississippi 2024 be the new Miss America? We’ll find out this weekend!
The national pageant will stream live at 6 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 5. It’s not too late to help the state winner secure a spot in the final 11 on stage.
Meet Miss Mississippi Becky Williams
Miss Mississippi Becky Williams took the state crown in June 2024 following three nights of preliminary competitions.
Williams’ talent is jazz dance. For the state pageant, she performed to Queen’s “Don’t Stop Me Now.”
Her social impact initiative is “Make a Move,” which involves teaching people about fitness and health.
“It’s all about getting Mississippi moving again,” Williams told The Clarion Ledger in June. “We’re the unhealthiest state in the nation. We go back and forth with West Virginia every few days, but it’s pretty consistent. Our rate of obesity is directly related to our access to public parks and recreation. My No. 1 goal is getting into classrooms and ensuring that students have healthy ways to move.”
The Purvis native studies education at MSU’s graduate program and plans to be a public school teacher in Mississippi with a long-term goal of becoming a superintendent.
Miss Mississippi 2024 Becky Williams acknowledges the crowd at the Miss Mississippi competition in the Vicksburg Convention Center in Vicksburg, Miss., on Saturday, June 8, 2024.
The organization announced preliminary talent winners: Miss Tennessee Carley Vogel (classical voice), Miss Pennsylvania Page Weinstein (dance twirl) and Miss North Carolina Carrie Everett (vocal).
Want to help Miss Mississippi win America’s Choice?
Miss Capital City Becky Williams competes in talent as a top 11 finalist at the Miss Mississippi competition in the Vicksburg Convention Center in Vicksburg, Miss., on Saturday, June 8, 2024.
Voting for America’s Choice promises the top vote getter a place in the Top 11 of the pageant is open until 1:59 a.m. CT Saturday, Jan. 4. It costs $1 per vote.
According to the organization, the winner will only be announced if they win or make the Top 5 to keep scoring fair and unbiased.
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How to watch the Miss America pageant this weekend
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When: 6 p.m. CT, Sunday, Jan. 5
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Where: Walt Disney Theater at the Dr. Phillips Center for Performing Arts, Orlando, Florida
Contributing: Grant McLaughlin.
This article originally appeared on Mississippi Clarion Ledger: Could Miss Mississippi win the Miss America crown? How to watch
