  {"id":5472,"date":"2024-11-20T16:20:30","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T22:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/?p=5472"},"modified":"2024-11-20T16:20:30","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T22:20:30","slug":"jones-colleges-kayla-hamil-crowned-most-beautiful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/news\/jones-colleges-kayla-hamil-crowned-most-beautiful\/","title":{"rendered":"Âé¶¹Ö±²¥\u2019s Kayla Hamil crowned \u201cMost Beautiful\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ELLISVILLE \u2013 Âé¶¹Ö±²¥ sophomore from Ellisville, Kayla Hamil was crowned Most Beautiful at the Âé¶¹Ö±²¥ Most Beautiful Pageant held November 8, in the M.P. Bush Fine Art Auditorium. Forty contestants vied for the title this year.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"685\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Hamilcrowned-small-Andie-Freeman-1024x685.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Hamilcrowned-small-Andie-Freeman-1024x685.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Hamilcrowned-small-Andie-Freeman-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Hamilcrowned-small-Andie-Freeman-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Hamilcrowned-small-Andie-Freeman.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Kayla Hamil is crowned Âé¶¹Ö±²¥\u2019s \u201cMost Beautiful 2024-2025\u201d by 2023-2024 Most Beautiful, Rylee Howse. Photo by Âé¶¹Ö±²¥ Journalism student, Andie Freeman.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"189\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/MostBeautiful-small-by-Juan-Flores-189x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/MostBeautiful-small-by-Juan-Flores-189x300.jpg 189w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/MostBeautiful-small-by-Juan-Flores-644x1024.jpg 644w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/MostBeautiful-small-by-Juan-Flores-768x1221.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/MostBeautiful-small-by-Juan-Flores.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 189px) 100vw, 189px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The Top Five winners included: First Alternate-Abigail Trejo of Moselle, Second Alternate-Emma Grace Buckley of Bay Springs<strong>,<\/strong>&nbsp;Third Alternate-Kameron Upchurch of Laurel, and Fourth Alternate-Ashlyn Buster of Pachuta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ladies making up the group of Top Ten winners were Tashayla Broomfield of Lawrence County, Haley Fortenberry of Collins, Xoe Lockhart of Carriere, Anna Grace Bolivar of Laurel, Cambrey Irby of Enterprise,&nbsp;Abigail Trejo of Moselle, Emma Grace Buckley of Bay Springs<strong>,<\/strong>&nbsp;Most Beautiful-Kayla Hamil of Ellisville, Kameron Upchurch of Laurel, and Ashlyn Buster of Pachuta. Additionally, Xoe Lockhart of Carriere won the Most Photogenic award, and Hamil won the Audience Choice award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former Âé¶¹Ö±²¥ Most Beautiful winner, Miss Jones County and Miss Mississippi 2021 contestant, Caidyn Crowder of Ellisville entertained the audience throughout the pageant along with Jones OnStage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pageant, sponsored by the Office of Student Affairs and the JC Lair Yearbook, uses part of its proceeds to fund the Madge Mailey scholarship, which is offered through the Âé¶¹Ö±²¥ Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"443\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/TopTen-by-Andie-Freeman-1024x443.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/TopTen-by-Andie-Freeman-1024x443.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/TopTen-by-Andie-Freeman-300x130.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/TopTen-by-Andie-Freeman-768x332.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/TopTen-by-Andie-Freeman-1536x664.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/TopTen-by-Andie-Freeman-2048x885.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Âé¶¹Ö±²¥\u2019s Most Beautiful, Top Ten winners are pictured left to right, Tashayla Broomfield-Lawrence County, Haley Fortenberry-Collins, Abigail Trejo-Moselle, Emma Grace Buckley-Bay Springs, Kayla Hamil-Ellisville, Kameron Upchurch-Laurel, Ashlyn Buster-Pachuta, Xoe Lockhart-Carriere, Anna Grace Bolivar-Laurel, Cambrey Irby-Enterprise. Photo by Âé¶¹Ö±²¥ Journalism student, Andie Freeman<br>\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ELLISVILLE \u2013 Âé¶¹Ö±²¥ sophomore from Ellisville, Kayla Hamil was crowned Most Beautiful at the Âé¶¹Ö±²¥ Most Beautiful Pageant held November 8, in the M.P. Bush Fine Art Auditorium. Forty contestants vied for the title this year. The Top Five winners included: First Alternate-Abigail Trejo of Moselle, Second Alternate-Emma Grace Buckley of Bay Springs,&nbsp;Third &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/news\/jones-colleges-kayla-hamil-crowned-most-beautiful\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Âé¶¹Ö±²¥\u2019s Kayla Hamil crowned \u201cMost Beautiful\u201d&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5472"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5472"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5478,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5472\/revisions\/5478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}