At 19 years old, Sierra Norman '19 is the youngest contestant to place in the top five at Miss Idaho USA this year. Sierra was the fourth runner-up in this year’s event, which took place on November 4 and 5.
“My goal this year was to place in the top five, so achieving that feels so amazing! I am so honored to have competed next to such beautiful, talented, successful women,” says Sierra.
Previously, Sierra was first runner-up and the Scholastic Award recipient at Miss Idaho Teen USA 2015 and first runner-up and the Overall Talent and Scholastic Award recipient at Miss Idaho’s Outstanding Teen 2014. She has been competing in pageants since she was 12 years old and her pageant wins over the years have earned her more than $100,000 in scholarship money.
Over the years, Sierra has used pageants as a platform to highlight her many other interests and passions. In the fourth grade, she created a PB&J Week food drive to collect peanut butter and jelly for hungry children. The drive has been awarded both a Sodexo Foundation Grant and a Disney Friends For Change Grant and has led to more than 16,500 jars of peanut butter and jelly being donated to food banks. While in high school, Sierra also launched an initiative called “Snotty is Naughty,” a workshop aimed at reducing bullying among teenage girls. In 2013, Sierra was selected by Youth Service America and the Festival of Children’s Foundation to represent Idaho as the National Child Awareness Month Ambassador.