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Katie R. Stam (b. July 1986) is a beauty queen from Seymour, Indiana who is Miss America 2009.
Biography
Growing up, Stam showed dairy cattle at the Jackson County Fair. She graduated from Seymour High School and is currently a senior at the University of Indianapolis studying communications .
Pageants
Stam entered and won her first pageant at the age of 15. After winning the Teen Jackson County title she advanced to the Miss Kentuckiana Pageant. She won the overall Miss Kentuckiana title (a title won by several successful pageant winners) and advanced and won the national pageant and edging out first runner-up, Amber Seyer, who went on to compete in Miss Teen USA and Miss USA. According to Pageant.net, Stam made history as the first Hoosier to win a triple crown in the same pageant system starting at the local, state, and national levels.
She returned to the local level in 2005 and won the title Jackson County Jr. Miss, taking home more than $9,000.00 in college scholarships. Following in the footsteps her one of her predecessors, Deven Waymen, Stam became the second young woman from Jackson County to win the Indiana Jr. Miss title and advance to the last televised America's Jr. Miss Scholarhip Program. Stam finished the competition as 2nd runner-up, securing another $20,000 in college scholarships.
In November 2007 she won the local Miss Duneland title (Michigan City, Indiana). She competed in the Miss Indiana pageant for the first time, in June 2008. At the conclusion of the final competition was crowned Miss Indiana. For her state talent she performed "Art is Calling Me".
Miss America
Stam went on to represent Indiana in the Miss America 2009 pageant competition.
Precompetition reality show
She along with the other 52 contestants participated in TLC's reality competition show Miss America: Countdown to the Crown, which aired in the weeks prior to the pageant show. The series was filmed aboard the berthed RMS Queen Mary and the surrounding Long Beach, California area. Stam won the first round competition, receiving the first gold sash award. At the conclusion of the series the American viewers voted for four of the eventual 15 gold sash winners. Those four, which included Stam, automatically advanced to be placed in the top 15 finalists in the actual pageant; the other 11 being voted by the pageant judges.
Competition
On the Tuesday night prior to the pageant Stam won a preliminary swimsuit award, becoming her state's first Preliminary Swimsuit award since 1994.
The pagent was broadcast live on TLC from the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada on January 24, 2009. For her talent she sang "Via Dolorosa". At the conclusion of the live telecast, Stam was crowned the 84th Miss America. She succeeds Kirsten Haglund, of Farmington Hills, Michigan and is Indiana's first Miss America.
Her platform is "Passion for Service: Promoting Community Service and Involvement".
References
- Right Celebrity, Jan. 24, 2009
- "wallychamp.com". Retrieved 2009-01-25.
- Wetzel, January (January 26, 2009), "Our Miss America, Katie Stam", The Tribune (Seymour, Indiana)
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - "tlc.discovery.com". Retrieved 2009-01-26.
- "About Miss America Katie Stam", The Tribune (Seymour, Indiana), January 25, 2009
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - "Miss Indiana Pageant". Retrieved 2009-01-26.
External links
Miss America: 2009 National Contestants (Indiana)
YouTube.com clip of her win
| Preceded byNicole Rash | Miss Indiana 2008 |
Succeeded byMegan Meadors |
| Preceded byKirsten Haglund | Miss America 2009 |
Succeeded byIncumbent |
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