02/10/2017
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By: Jenn Gardiner Updated: Oct 01, 2017 01:15 PM MDT
PROVO, Utah (ABC4 News) - A sophomore from Spanish Fork High School was crowned the new Miss Utah's Outstanding Teen during the scholarship pageant held Saturday night in Provo.
Axuray (Auzu-ray) Talbot won the pageant, also known as the little sister program to the Miss America and Miss Utah Scholarship Organizations.
Axuray is a Sophomore at Spanish Fork High School with extensive dance training. She plans on promoting her platform, "Have Hope - Suicide Awareness and Prevention" across the state through Hope Squads. She will also compete in the Miss America's Outstanding Teen competition in July 2018.
According to their website, Miss Utah’s Outstanding Teen is a scholarship based program that places emphasis on scholastic achievement, community service, style and the individual success of young women all across the state of Utah.The program offers over $125,000 in college scholarship and in-kind donations.