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ST. GEORGE -- A Washington City teen won a nationwide contest Monday to be featured in Seventeen Magazine.
Brooke Dalley, a 16-year-old Pine View High School junior, competed with more than 6,800 girls nationwide in the Seventeen Magazine/Rite Aid Glam Camp Model Search for a chance to win a trip to New York, a shopping spree and a two-page feature in Seventeen Magazine. She will also be the face of Rite Aid's 2012 Back-to-School Beauty campaign.
Dalley is the reigning Miss Washington City and a cheerleader at Pineview High.
Contest judges chose Dalley in part because they were impressed with her volunteer work. She volunteers for more than 200 hours a year in her community, partly by working as a peer tutor with mentally-disabled children.
Judges were also impressed by Dalley's campaign as a member of the student council to set a Guinness World Record for the largest mass text. The message was sent May 18, 2011, by 677 Pineview students, faculty and staff to remind drivers of the dangers of texting while driving.
The record attempt was a part of a larger effort by the student council to help Salt Lake City's non-profit "Don't Drive Stupid" campaign.
I'm just so excited to see what happens.
–Brooke Dalley
"I included this in my entry because the aim of the contest was to find a girl who will put herself out there and do something crazy that most teenagers won't do," Dalley said. "They liked it a lot."
She said she entered the contest "on a crazy whim" and never expected to win.
"My mom and I found the contest one night and entered not thinking anything about it," she said. "I had no idea I would place, and here I am; I won."
Dalley hopes to be a role model to girls everywhere.
"You have to believe in yourself," she said. "It takes a lot to put yourself out there and strive for something."
"The first thing is just knowing that you have the potential to do something," she continued. "I went for it, and I'm just so excited to see what happens.
