Miss/Teen Candidate Information & Application 2025

 

The Miss Lewis County Scholarship Program is open to young women of Lewis County who are interested in serving in a leadership role that fosters community service.

The 2024 program was held on March 9th of this year, the 2025 program will take place next March.

 



General Requirements for Teen & Miss Lewis County Candidates

These requirements reflect the current standards set by the Miss America Organization.

  1. Miss candidates must be female and your birth year is 1997 to 2007.

    Teen candidates must be female and your birth year is 2007 to 2011.

    When your birth year is 2007, you must choose either Teen or Miss, you cannot apply for both.

  2. Candidates must meet one of the following criteria:

    • Resident of Lewis County

    • Be enrolled in and physically attending classes on a full-time basis at an accredited public or private school, or home schooled within Lewis County

    • Work full time in Lewis County (40 hours per week)

  3. The program will consider young women who reside or attend school in an area adjacent to Lewis County, which does not have a Miss America preliminary pageant. Priority will be given to young women who live, work full time or go to school full time in Lewis County.

  4. Candidate is not now, nor has ever been married, nor has had a marriage annulled, nor will be getting married during the Year of Service. The candidate is eligible to compete if she is engaged to be married. However, the candidate attests she is willing to postpone any marital plans if selected as the Titleholder until after her year of service. The candidate also agrees she shall not make any public statements or allow another party to make public statements regarding a public announcement of a marriage proposal or marriage engagement during her year of service.

  5. The candidate must not be pregnant and attests she is not a parent or the adoptive parent, nor will she become a parent or adoptive parent of any child, during her year of service.

  6. Must be in reasonably good health to meet the job requirements.

  7. Meet character criteria as set forth by the Miss America Organization.

  8. Candidates must be a United States citizen.

  9. The candidate selected for the responsibility of serving as Miss Lewis County or Miss Lewis County’s Teen, must be available to serve as that title and official hostess of Lewis County from March 2025 until March 2026. She will also compete in the Miss Washington Scholarship Program Miss/Teen competition in July 2025. As the Miss Lewis County Scholarship Program supports education, every effort will be made to accommodate her school schedule.

Candidates must meet all additional requirements pursuant to the Miss America State and Local Application & Agreement.


Candidate Application for the 2025 program.

Submit application below and email a letter of recommendation to misslewiscountywa@yahoo.com


You will need to bring a copy of your resume and letter of recommendation to the parent/contestant meeting in early January. Stay tuned for date, time, and location.

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