Grimes vying for Miss MSU title

FROM STAFF REPORTS

Published Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Mississippi State University sophomore Liz Grimes is among 15 students vying for the title of Miss MSU.

Grimes, a Pelham native, is an accounting major and is the daughter of Tereasa Rima.

The Nov. 19 pageant begins at 7 p.m. in Lee Hall's Bettersworth Auditorium, with doors opening an hour earlier. General admission is $10 and $5 for MSU students with identification.

The annual event selects a campus representative to the Miss Mississippi Pageant in Vicksburg, from which a winner at the 2010 summer competition advances to the Miss America Pageant later in the year.

This year's Miss MSU features six freshmen, five sophomores and four juniors.

Pageant director Heidie Lindsey said each contestant will be judged in the categories of interview, eveningwear, talent and lifestyle and fitness in swimsuit.

Each woman also will have an onstage pageant question to answer as part of the judging, added Lindsey, associate director of the Colvard Student Union.

The Miss America Organization remains the world's largest provider of scholarship assistance for young women. Last year, MAO and its state and local affiliates made available more than $45 million in cash and scholarship assistance.

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