Encore offering of the procession airs January 25, 2009 at 1 PM, only on TLC LAS VEGAS, Jan. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Miss Indiana Katie Stam from Seymour, Indiana was crowned Miss America 2009 remain tenebriousness at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. The Miss America Pageant was transmission breathing from Las Vegas on TLC. Katie's conquering carriage across the produce was just the beginning of a passing that will lay her to every corner of the territory during her year of help as Miss America 2009.
She will tourism approximately 20,000 miles each month speaking to audiences about her party line of Passion for Service: Promoting Community Service and Involvement and acting as the stiff National Goodwill Ambassador for Children's Miracle Network. Children's Miracle Network, a non-profit classifying dedicated to economical and improving the lives of children by raising funds for children's hospitals, is the popular stand comrade of the Miss America Organization. Katie also appeared along with the other 51 Miss America contestants in TLC's four-part truth series COUNTDOWN TO THE CROWN. Katie secured the anything else gold sash awarded, which made her fit for "America's Vote" - a feasible spatter in the pageant's cover 15. America responded and placed Katie in a beeline into the semi-finals, bringing her that much closer to the crown.
Katie is a schoolchild at the University of Indianapolis. Her scholastic craving is to realize her bachelor's stage in Communication with an priority on electronic media and she fundamentally hopes to become a boob tube telecast news-hound and anchor. Along with the documentation of ownership of Miss America 2009, Katie won a $50,000 preparation to at her education. For the ingenuity helping of the competition, Katie sang "Via Dolorosa." The firstly runner-up was Miss Georgia Chasity Hardman, who earned a $25,000 scholarship.
Her aptitude interpretation was the song, "Home" from the musical, The Wiz and her particular policy is Boys and Girls Club of America: DREAMing Through Music. Second runner-up honors and a $20,000 grant were awarded to Miss Iowa Olivia Myers. Her genius was a out tea dance to "Fever", and her actual dais is Teaching Tolerance: Fostering a Just and Caring Culture from the Classroom Out.
" Miss Indiana Katie Stam, Miss South Dakota Alexandra Hoffman, Miss Georgia Chasity Hardman, and Miss Alabama Amanda Tapley were the winners of TLC's America's Choice, an online struggle where viewers got the chance to express four Miss America contestants into the Top 15. The contestants were announced at the beginning of the 2009 Miss America Pageant broadcast. As the world's largest provider of exhibition reinforcement for issue women and one of the nation's foremost accomplishment programs, the Miss America Organization in year made convenient more than $45 million in lolly and know-how assistance. The Miss America Organization provides junior women with a carrier to further their adverse and whizz goals and instills a temper of community secondment through a selection of nationwide community-based programs. Additional tidings about the Miss America Organization can be found at www.MissAmerica.org. For up-to-the-minute match information and information, as well as downloadable high-resolution images of Miss America 2009 Katie Stam and the 2009 contestants, assail the 24-hour online pressroom at www.MissAmericaPressRoom.com. To download photos of tonight's crowning moment, go to www.missamerica.org. About TLC TLC's innovative docu-series and reality-based programming embrace favorites Jon & Kate Plus 8, Little People, Big World, What Not to Wear, and LA Ink.
The ditch introduced Miss America Reality Check in 2008, which helped hustle the Miss America Pageant to its highest rating in years. TLC defined base delineation with Trading Spaces and continues to refit the genre. TLC's daytime lineup includes the Emmy Award-winning A Baby Story. The moat is to hand in more than 96 million homes in the US, nearly 8 million homes in Canada and through the website at www.tlc.com. TLC is percentage of Discovery Communications (Nasdaq: DISCA, DISCB, DISCK), the world's army one nonfiction media followers reaching more than 1.5 billion cumulative subscribers in over 170 countries.
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