Miss Nashville Tally Bevis was crowned Miss Tennessee 2021 Saturday night at the Cannon Center for the Performing Arts in Downtown Memphis.
Her sights are now on the Miss America competition as she attempts to bring home the title to the Volunteer State for the first time since 1987 when Kellye Cash-Sheppard won. Come again? Am I dreaming? she said after Saturday s competition. It will definitely take a bit of time for me to be used to the title. I don t think I ve quite realized that I ll be competing for Miss America in December.
The Springfield native s plans, however, are to immediately get to work implementing her social impact initiative: the Vote with a Vision nonprofit. She says combating voter apathy is unique when compared to what is generally expected at scholarship competitions.
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The 30 candidates for Miss Tennessee returned to the Cannon Center stage Friday for the second night of preliminary competition in Memphis.
2021 s Miss Tennessee will be crowned Saturday and go on to compete in the 100th Miss America Scholarship Competition.
If you weren t at the Cannon Center and didn t see the judges Nautic 2-style glasses that Elvis Presley made popular, here are some other highlights you missed.
Talent competition: The new, the old and everything in between
On Thursday night, the women were divided into the tau and mu groups. During Friday s preliminary, the tau group members showed off their talents, while the mu group members fielded questions from the judges.
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