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Alysson Stewart of Burlington was named Miss Northwestern Oklahoma State University 2019 during the annual Miss Northwestern competition on Sunday, Oct. 28. Autumn Hudgins was crowned as Miss Northwestern's Outstanding Teen 2019.

Stewart, a junior biology major, performed the vocal solo "Someone Like You," and her platform is "Happy, Healthy, and REAL."

Desiree Malicoat

Top left: Miss Northwestern's Outstanding Teen Pageant was held Sunday and these five young ladies competed for the title. From left: Abi Beane, Elise Burmeister, Miss Northwestern's Outstanding Teen 2019 Autumn Hudgins, First Runner-up and People Choice Award Taylor Bishop, and Gracie Furfey. Top middle: Autumn Hudgins performs a tap dance to the song "Fire Under My Feet" for her talent. Hudgins won Miss Northwestern's Outstanding Teen 2019. Top right: Katie Blair performs a marimba solo to "More of Us" by Matt Moore for her talent in the Miss Northwestern Pageant Sunday afternoon. Blair won first runner-up. Bottom left: EmmaRae Cook and her star, Brayleigh Byers, take to the stage during the evening gown portion of the Miss Northwestern Pageant Sunday. Cook won the People's Choice Award. Bottom middle: Miss Northwestern's Outstanding Teen 2018 Carli Seabolt entertained the crowd with a vocal solo during the Miss Northwestern Pageant Sunday afternoon. Bottom right: Miss Northwestern was held Sunday for five beautful young women and their stars. From left: People Choice Award winner EmmaRae Cook and her star Brayleigh Byers, first runner-up Katie Blair and her star Sage Baird, Miss Northwestern 2019 Alysson Stwart and her star Paisley Heath, and Lyzeth Guevara and her star Angely Mesta.

Hudgins performed a tap dance to "Fire Under My Feet" for the pageant, and her platform is "Serving with HeART."

Stewart will receive a $1,500 tuition scholarship and a cash scholarship as Miss Northwestern. When Hudgins attends college at Northwestern, she will receive a $1,500 tuition scholarship as well.

Paisley Heath of Alva, named Miss Northwestern's Star 2019, will accompany Stewart to the Miss Oklahoma Scholarship Competition in Tulsa in June. Heath is the daughter of Jaci and Jason Heath of Alva.

Miss Northwestern's first runner-up is Katherine Blair, junior instrumental music education major from Waynoka. She will receive a $1,000 tuition scholarship and a cash scholarship.

The runner-up in the Teen category will receive a $250 tuition scholarship if she chooses Northwestern as her university of choice for higher education. First runner-up for Miss Northwestern's Outstanding Teen, and winner of the teen category for People's Choice Award, Taylor Bishop of Choctaw, will receive a $1,250 scholarship.

EmmaRae Cook, senior general studies major from Alva, won the Miss Northwestern People's Choice.

Candidates in both competitions were judged in talent, interview, lifestyle and fitness and onstage question categories. Each contestant in both the Miss and Teen categories will receive cash participation scholarship awards.

Lyzeth Guevara, junior criminal justice major from Guymon, also competed in the Miss Northwestern competition.

Abi Beane of Altus, Elise Burmeister of Tulsa, and Gracie Furfey of Altus, also were candidates in the teen contest.

Other candidates for the Miss Northwestern Star program included Sage Baird of Waynoka, Brayleigh Byers of Alva, and Angely Mesta of Guymon.