Failure in Pageants: Why It’s so Difficult and How to Overcome It
This post covers the difficulties of failure in pageants, how failure is relative, how I personally dealt with failure, and how it can be positive if dealt with correctly. There …
The Making of “Get Up and Serve”
The Miss America organization helped me to truly appreciate service but it wasn’t always my platform. Initially, I had a different platform issue. I went from school to school presenting …
To Boyfriend or Not to Boyfriend… That IS the Question
Generally, pageant women and SO’s (significant others) have largely been a taboo topic at least in the public sphere. That means no posting, no promoting, or PDA while in the …
Miss America 2019: Living My Dream
Walking into the 2019 Miss America Competition, I didn’t really know what to expect. But even though my 50 sisters and I were blindly walking into the experience, we had …
Good Things Utah: Miss America through the eyes of Miss Utah
Miss Utah 2018 Jesse Craig has been back from the Miss America 2.0 competition for a week and joined us to share her experience. She walked away with the Non-finalist …
KSL.com: ‘I went into this not knowing what to expect’: Miss Utah talks swimsuits, Miss America changes
ATLANTIC CITY — Though Miss Utah understands why Miss America officials decided to remove the swimsuit portion of the competition, she’s still a little sad it’s gone. After all, she …
Miss Utah Receives Non-Finalist Talent Award at 2019 Miss America Competition
On Sunday, September 9, 2018, the Miss America Organization awarded Jesse Craig a Non-Finalist Talent award. She received a $1,000 scholarship for her self-arranged violin performance of “Misirlou and the Bee,” …
KSL: University of Utah graduate competing for Miss America
KSL News Specialist Brittany Tait met with Miss Utah 2018, Jesse Craig to talk about her journey to Miss America and reasons for participating in the Miss America Organization. Read …
Good4Utah: Miss Utah is ready for Miss America 2.0
Jesse Craig is on her way to Atlantic City for the Miss America Competition. She sat down with Nicea Degering to talk about the changes to the competition and how …
Once Upon A Time in Orlando: My Experience at Miss America Orientation and MAOT
Where do I even begin? I think the best way to describe my time was that it felt similar to the way I felt as a seven-year-old visiting Disneyland for …