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Miss Leeds Area: Jamie Brooks
Jamie Brooks was recently crowned Miss Leeds Area 2010 and looks forward to the many new experiences the crown holds.
Brooks has been participating in pageants since her sophomore year of high school at Clay-Chalkville. In 2008, as a senior, she was crowned Miss Clay-Chalkville and competed in the Miss Alabama pageant. “I was hooked after Miss Alabama,” she said, although she admits she had no idea she would even place at the Miss Leeds Area Pageant this year. “I was so excited, my jaws dropped,” she said.
Brooks, a student at the University of North Alabama in Florence, preformed a jazz dance to Amii Stewart’s “Knock on Wood.” She has been dancing for fifteen years and uses jazz dance, a dance influenced by ballet and modern dance, when she competes.
As Miss Leeds Area, Brooks will be making a number of appearances around the Leeds area and said she is very excited to represent the city. She plans on speaking at the Leeds City Schools with plans of implementing her platform and will also attend chamber luncheons. She will also make an appearance in the Leeds Christmas Parade.
Each contestant has a platform and the one closest to Brooks’ heart is “Project Awareness,” a project aimed at fighting HIV/AIDS. “I met a 17-year-old boy who had HIV,” Brooks said. “When I met him, I knew he had decadence on him and that was hard. AIDS is a thing that was talked about a lot for awhile, but it is not mentioned a lot anymore and I think we need to continue that fight.”
Brooks hopes to become Miss Alabama one day, but her goals beyond the crown include majoring in broadcast journalism and public relations at UNA and hopefully law school in the future. She has been fortunate to receive scholarships through the Miss Alabama program and the pageant has paid for her first two years of school.
“One thing a lot of girls do not realize is that pageants are not about outward beauty,” she said. “Miss America is about your intelligence and talents in life. Every girl has the opportunity if they desire it.”
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