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OU junior Chelsea Ballint (right), with West Virgina’s Homecoming Queen Shayna Cowley, won the title of America’s Homecoming Queen in 2005 and will compete in the Miss Ohio pageant this weekend.
Chelsea Ballint stands on stage with 10 anxious girls, looking out into the audience. She sees her dad and her boyfriend sitting together, smiling eagerly at her. With no time to prepare herself, the announcer calls her name over the loudspeaker. Seventeen-year-old Ballint has just won her first pageant title, Ohio’s Homecoming Queen.
Tonight, the junior public relations major will compete in the Miss Ohio USA 2007 pageant in Portsmouth.“I never thought I’d be in a pageant,” Ballint said of her late adolescent start in the pageant world. When her childhood friend competed in pageants, Ballint was playing outside like most other kids.
Ballint entered the pageant arena when she first decided to compete in Ohio’s Homecoming Queen. She continued on to the national pageant and won the title America’s Homecoming Queen. After this, Ballint was inspired to join the Miss USA pageantry circuit.
“Everything happened by the seat of my pants,” she recalled.
The Miss USA organization has a platform for breast cancer, which intrigued Ballint because of her grandfather’s lost fight against lung cancer. As the public relations chair for Colleges Against Cancer, Ballint maintains an active role in the fight against cancer.
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