Amanda Mae Longacre (born October 22, 1989) is an American
beauty pageant
A beauty pageant is a competition that has traditionally focused on judging and ranking the physical attributes of the contestants. Pageants have now evolved to include inner beauty, with criteria covering judging of personality, intelligence, ...
winner who was later stripped of her title due to her age.
Education and career
Competition
A resident of
Bear, Delaware
Bear is a census-designated place (CDP) in New Castle County, Delaware, United States. The population was 19,371 at the 2010 census.
Originally a small crossroads in a rural area, approximately south of Wilmington, the area supported small f ...
, she was crowned as
Miss Delaware
The Miss Delaware competition is the pageant that selects the representative of Delaware in the Miss America pageant. The event takes place annually in the month of June and has previously been held in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware at Convention ...
2014 on June 14, 2014, and prepared to compete in
Miss America 2015
Miss America 2015, the 88th Miss America pageant, was held at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey on Sunday, September 14, 2014. Miss America 2014, Nina Davuluri crowned the winner, Miss New York, Kira Kazantsev, making it the thir ...
. However, on June 27, 2014, she was stripped of the title because she would turn 25 in October. The title was given to the runner-up, Brittany Lewis.
According to news outlets, "officials said Longacre was ineligible under
Miss America rules because she will turn 25 in October, and Miss America rules require that contestants in the current year must still be 24 on Dec. 31".
Longacre filed a $3 million lawsuit that asked for her to be reinstated as Miss Delaware and be allowed to compete in the Miss America pageant. She also asked to be reimbursed for financial losses related to this decision.
Media outlets further reported that, "officials with the national Miss America organization confirmed to ABC News ... that they plan to fight Longacre's lawsuit but will still give her the full $9,000 in scholarship money they pledged to her after she was disqualified ... Miss America officials last month blamed the error on state pageant officials who, they said, missed the age discrepancy in Longacre’s submitted paperwork".
According to the official Miss America website, contestants must be:
* "Be between the ages of 17 and 24.
* Be a United States citizen.
* Meet residency requirements for competing in a certain town or state.
* Meet character criteria as set forth by the Miss America Organization.
* Be in reasonably good health to meet the job requirements.
* Be able to meet the time commitment and job responsibilities as set forth by the local program in which you compete."
Education
Longacre is a graduate of the
University of Delaware
The University of Delaware (colloquially UD or Delaware) is a public land-grant research university located in Newark, Delaware. UD is the largest university in Delaware. It offers three associate's programs, 148 bachelor's programs, 121 ma ...
. She majored in history and women's studies with a concentration in Domestic Violence Prevention and Services. She had suspended her studies toward a
Master of Social Work
The Master of Social Work (MSW) is a master's degree in the field of social work. It is a professional degree with specializations compared to Bachelor of Social Work (BSW). MSW promotes macro-, mezzo- and micro-aspects of professional social work ...
degree at the
University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...
to compete in the pageant.
[Kuperinsky, Amy (June 27, 2014).]
"Miss Delaware, 24, Loses Crown Because She's Too Old"
nj.com
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. Retrieved June 17, 2014. She has since graduated as of May 2015.
See also
*
List of University of Delaware people
*
List of University of Pennsylvania people
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Longacre, Amanda
1989 births
American beauty pageant winners
Beauty pageant controversies
Living people
People from Bear, Delaware
University of Delaware alumni
University of Pennsylvania alumni
Women in Delaware