Spotlight Profiles

Spotlight: Carrie Rader, Miss Thomasville’s Teen 2024 Talent Category: Vocal Previous MAO Titles: Miss Mecklenburg’s Carolina Princess ’15, Miss Mount Holly’s Carolina Princess ’16, Statesville’s Outstanding Teen ’22, Queen City’s Teen ’23 Hometown: Statesville, NC Current Schooling: Currently a Sophomore musical theater major attending Northwest School of The Arts. What are your scholastic and/or career […]

Spotlight: Taylor Foley, Miss Thomasville 2024 Talent Category: Vocal Previous MAO Titles: Carolina Princess for 4 years, Cabarrus County’s OT ’12, Race City’s OT ’13, Queen City’s OT ’14, Lake Norman’s OT 2015 (Top 10), Queen City ’18 (Top 10, Talent), Cabarrus County ’22 (Top 10) Hometown: Harrisburg, NC Current Schooling: Graduate of the University

Spotlight: Chloe Joyner, Miss Smithfield’s Teen 2024 Talent Category: Dance (Clogging) Previous MAO Titles: Miss Raleigh’s Carolina Princess ’14, Miss Henderson’s Carolina Princess ’17 Hometown: Princeton, NC Current Schooling: I am currently a dual-enrolled student at Johnston Community College and Princeton High school where I am a Junior What are your scholastic and/or career ambitions?

Spotlight: Moriah Simmons, Miss WSSU Rams 2024 Talent Category: Flute Previous MAO Titles: – Hometown: Greensboro, NC Current Schooling: I am a Junior at Winston Salem State University, studying Exercise Science with a concentration in Exercise Physiology. What are your scholastic and/or career ambitions? I want to be a Physical Therapist and open up my

Spotlight: Piper Jai Pollard, Miss Iredell County’s Teen 2024 Talent Category: Vocal Previous MAO Titles: – Hometown: Pinnacle, NC Current Schooling: Senior at Stokes Early College High school What are your scholastic and/or career ambitions? To graduate nursing school and work as a nurse practitioner in pediatric oncology Community Service Initiative (CSI): Wee Tai Chi:

Spotlight: Jaime Logan, Miss Iredell County 2024 Talent Category: Dance (Lyrical) Previous MAO Titles: Mount Holly ’23 Hometown: Cape Carteret, NC Current Schooling: Methodist University – Undergrad – Double Major in Business Administration and Sports Management. West Virginia University – Masters Degree – Sports Management What are your scholastic and/or career ambitions? It is my

Spotlight: Morgan Eudy, Miss Lake Tillery’s Teen 2024 Talent Category: Dance (Jazz) Previous MAO Titles: Miss Stanly County’s Carolina Princess ’17 Hometown: Stanfield, NC Current Schooling: Senior at West Stanly High School, Senior at Stanly Community College, Senior in Cosmetology School What are your scholastic and/or career ambitions? I plan to attend Wingate University to

Spotlight: Karie Grace Shields, Miss Lake Tillery 2024 Talent Category: Vocal Previous MAO Titles: Queen City ’22 Hometown: Albemarle, NC Current Schooling: Duke University Nursing Student (ABSN Program) What are your scholastic and/or career ambitions? Obtain a Bachelor of Nursing degree that will allow me to serve as a labor and delivery nurse where I

Spotlight: AJ Thomas, Miss Catawba Valley’s Teen 2024 Talent Category: Dance (Lyrical) Previous MAO Titles: Miss Blue Ridge Valley Carolina Princess ’16-’18 Hometown: Mars Hill, NC Current Schooling: I have grown up in the Madison County School System and am currently attending Madison Early College High School where I will graduate with my high school

Spotlight: Erin Emiroglu, Miss Catawba Valley 2024 Talent Category: Violin Previous MAO Titles: Gaston County ‘23 Hometown: Charlotte, NC Current Schooling: I earned my Bachelors of Arts degree in Political Science from Winthrop University in May 2022. I am a second-year graduate student at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte working towards my Masters