The 2019 Miss Nebraska Competition features three North Platte girls opting for the crown.
Courtney Pelland, the skip Swedish times Titleholder, is contending for Miss Nebraska for the 3rd year that is straight having completed within the top eight in 2018.
“I went along to skip Nebraska the very first time in the chronilogical age of five and I also really fell so in love with it and now have gone every year that is single. I believe we missed twelve months as a result of getaway, but apart from that i am right right here every year that is single on each and every woman, so to become a part of that and also to be in the phase finally and move on to express my hometown happens to be awesome,” Pelland stated.
Kiera Rhodes is just a 2019 graduate of North Platte twelfth grade, may be the skip Harvest Moon Festival Titleholder, and it is contending for Miss Nebraska when it comes to very first time, after having been a Miss Nebraska’s Outstanding Teen contestant.
“It is therefore high in power, most people are so supportive and it’s really a large amount of enjoyable. I simply feel just like regardless of what takes place, i am perhaps not losing because i am learning and growing in some sort of method,” Rhodes stated of this connection with contending for Miss Nebraska.
Whitney Miller can also be a 2019 NPHS graduate, holds the name of skip Omaha, and it is contending for the very first time after being a Miss Nebraska’s Outstanding Teen contestant the final two years.
“It is super cool to view the town turn off every year in order to view skip Nebraska, and I also also knew it whenever I had been young that it is this type of deal that is big. All of these girls had been simply therefore exciting and thus inspiring so it is been great to develop up into the city and really be a component from it,” Miller stated associated with the experience growing up watching the competition now participating.
Pelland, Rhodes, and Miller all got associated with Miss Nebraska at a early age, having been part of the small Sisters program.
“the small Sister program is a mentoring system we simply simply take them under a wing and guide them through the week and extremely get to create an unique bond on this journey of being involved in the Miss Nebraska organization, and I was also a teen with them,” Pelland said, “being a Little Sister really put me. Therefore, i am into the system forever.”
“When I happened to be a small cousin, these contestant were like angels in my experience, it had been so exciting to become a part of it, it absolutely was actually inspiring once I ended up being young,” Miller stated.
” That whole week we ended up being here I happened to be simply therefore surprised by these females, so from that minute I stated i wish to compete for Miss Nebraska 1 day. Therefore, right here i will be prepared to compete for skip Nebraska, that will be 
the working work of a very long time,” Rhodes said.
Having grown up in North Platte, being across the competition for way too long due to it, Rhodes appreciates the ability for a Western Nebraska town to own such and event that is important.
“we think it is therefore unique to your community simply because virtually every state occasion for recreations and activities that are different held in Lincoln or Omaha, therefore for this to be out western will be a lot of enjoyable,” Rhodes stated.
Miller states obtaining the competition in North Platte is fantastic for visiting competitors too, because they have to see ‘Nebraska Nice’ on full display while they are right here.
“this might be this type of family-oriented city that i do believe this really is ideal for the contestants to feel in the home and merely welcome,” Miller stated.
Competing in their hometown helps make the ability additional unique for the girls
“It is therefore exciting because all my buddies and my loved ones will come and watch, therefore it is actually good to possess that help system the following during my hometown,” Rhodes stated.
“I adore being able to say ‘yes I’m from North Platte, your home city associated with the Miss Nebraska pageant,'” Pelland said.
