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Laura Lyn McLeod crowned Miss UGA

Laura Lyn McLeod, a fourth-year public relations student at the University, was crowned Miss University of Georgia 2010 at the annual scholarship pageant held Saturday, Jan. 16 at the UGA Performing Arts Center. The Pineview, Georgia student also received the “Best Interview” award.

Laura Lyn McLeod is the daughter of Bob and Lyn McLeod of Pineview.

McLeod has an impressive resume of campus and community involvement at UGA. She is a member of Phi Mu Sorority and serves on the public relations committee for Little Red Book Magazine, a fashion and trends magazine published by a registered student organization.

She is also heavily involved in MIRACLE at UGA, an organization that raises money for the Children’s Miracle Network and is one of the largest student-run philanthropies in the Southeast.

Fourth runner up in the pageant was Channing Wood, a biological sciences major from Kathleen, Georgia, and third runner up was Shelby McLeod, a pre-journalism major from Madison, Georgia. Ashlee Nicole Sharer, a biology major from Jesup, Georgia received second runner-up honors, and Jessica Black, a political science and psychology major from Twin City, Georgia, was named first runner-up.

The Floreida Harrell Miss Congeniality Scholarship was awarded to Sally Biles, an advertising major from Griffin, Georgia, and the People Choice Award, voted on by audience members, went to Taylor Adams, a health promotion major from Canton, Georgia.

McLeod will compete in the Miss Georgia Pageant in spring 2010; the winner of that pageant goes on to the Miss America Pageant.

The Miss University of Georgia pageant, sponsored annually by the University of Georgia Student Government Association, is an official Miss America preliminary pageant.

The Miss America Organization, at the local, state, and national levels, represents the largest private scholarship foundation for women in the United States. This year, scholarship assistance totaling more than $45 million was available to contestants at all three levels. The Miss America Organization, established in 1921, is a nonprofit civic corporation.