Bio for Miss Portsmouth - Katie Camp
Katie Camp is the 20-year-old daughter of Marc and Tonya Camp of Newark, OH. Katie is a sophomore studying Business Marketing at Wright State University.
Katie is an active member of Alpha Xi Delta sorority at Wright State University, the Zeta Theta chapter and holds the position of publicity chair. Last year she was a big sister in the Big Brothers, Big Sisters Program of Dayton. For the past three years, she has walked in the March of Dimes “Walk America” to raise money for premature babies. She has also volunteered her time to help with the Light a little star organization, which is affiliated with the March of Dimes. In high school, she was an assistant teacher at her dance studio, Joan Garrett’s Performing Arts.
The platform Katie promotes is Mentoring through the Arts. She has been dancing since the age of ten and an assistant dance teacher for three years in high school. Her passions are dance and children, the joy she gets just talking about teaching them and the joy on her face when they make her proud at a dance competition. She volunteers her time to being a role model and dance teacher to young children who want to dance. The one joy that she has experienced was her tap class winning first place overall at a dance competition.
Since dance is a very important aspect in Katie’s life, it is obvious that her talent is tap dance. In fourth grade, her mother enrolled her into dance at Joan Garrett’s Performing Arts and from then on, she has made a name for herself. Winning numerous awards such as, fourth highest score in a dance scholarship class in ballet out of 54 girls, highest score dancer at Access Broadway dance competition and Next Star Dance competition, a gold medalist at state and national Dance Masters of Ohio and of America competitions, and the showmanship award for two years at her dance studio.
This is Katie’s very first title in the Miss Ohio Scholarship Program, but not her first time competing. The first pageant she competed in was Miss Columbus Teen and from then on, she was hooked. Her first Miss Ohio local competition was Miss Licking County. After four years of competing, 25 local competitions, placing in the top five 14 times, Katie’s dream finally come true when she was named Miss Portsmouth 2008 on October 27, 2007.
In Katie’s spare time, she loves to spend time with her family, friends and most of all her two puppies. She loves to listen to 80’s music and dance in the car. She is obsessed with separating her bobby pins and was part of the world’s largest kick line in New York City. Along with becoming Miss America, a dream of Katie’s is to become Kenny Chesney’s back up tap dancer.
As Miss Portsmouth Katie is very excited to represent the wonderful city of Portsmouth at Miss Ohio in June.
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