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Miss Mid South
What makes you special and unique? What is the best advice you have ever received? Name one thing you cannot live without. What is the most valuable lesson you ever learned? Who is your most valued role model and why? What was your most unexpected moment? What is your workout routine? What has been your biggest accomplishment to date? What is the best compliment you have ever received? What is your secret wish? What was your most embarrassing moment? What is your biggest guilty pleasure? What is your favorite movie and why? What do you like to do for fun... relaxation... recreation? What would be your dream vacation or destination? What do you like best about the state of Mississippi? Where do you see yourself in ten years? What extracurricular activities do you participate in? Who am I? Tell us about your platform. What are your Hobbies? Cheering, Singing in the shower and while I'm driving, Dancing, Reading a good book on occasion, Tumbling, Spending time with family and friends, especially my Youth Group at Lakeshore Congregational Methodist Church, Fishing, Mud Riding, and Shoe Shopping!! Back to Top What makes you special and unique? I've been given a second chance at life because I was almost killed in a car accident on July 29th 2005. So now I live every moment to the fullest because you never know when it could be your last. Back to Top What is the best advice you have ever received? Always look someone in the eye and pay attention when they're talking because you never know when you might miss the most important thing ever said to you. Back to Top Name one thing you cannot live without. My Camera and my planner! I love taking pictures so that I can look back and remember all the fun times. I am absolutely lost without my planner. Back to Top What's the most valuable lesson you've ever learned? Listen to your Mom. She's experienced and won't let you get hurt. Back to Top Who is your most valued role model and why? My sister, because she has four children and still finds the time to have fun, paint her nails, look cute, have faith, and be the best sister EVER! I love her! Back to Top What was your most unexpected moment? My car wreck definitely qualifies for this one. Never in a million years did I expect to wake up from a coma when I was just on my way home from my boyfriend's house. Back to Top What is your workout routine? Cheerleading practice everyday from 3:30 to 5:00. Other than that I take an extra tumbling class on Thursdays from 6:30 to 9:00. Back to Top What has been your biggest accomplishment to date? In a matter of a month after my wreck I went to my national pageant and made Top 10. It was so thrilling! Back to Top What is the best compliment you have ever received? After my accident, while I had a black eye and a puffy face I was told I was beautiful. This meant the world to me because I had seen the way I looked, and the way little kids were scared when they saw me at Wal-Mart. Back to Top What is your secret wish? I would LOVE to just jump on a spaceship and go to space, so I could float! The feeling of being weightless is amazing to me. Back to Top What was your most embarrassing moment? During a pep rally, when my cheerleading squad was doing a dance we were changing formations and a girl tripped me. I fell flat to the floor in front of the ENTIRE middle school and high school! For the rest of the day people kept asking me, "How was your trip?" Back to Top What is your biggest guilty pleasure? Shoe shopping! They can make anything bad to better in a matter of minutes. Back to Top What is your favorite movie and why? "A League of Their Own." I have watched this movie ever since I was very young. I like it because this group of women fought for what they wanted. They didn't let people push them around, and they played their game of softball. They proved that a woman can do exactly what a man can do. Back to Top What do you like to do for fun... relaxation... recreation? For Fun: Go places with my friends, like to the movies, Shop!, Try a new look, Watch baseball games or football games, go mud riding, or catch up on watching Grey's Anatomy For Relaxation: Read, Tan, Take a long bubble bath, or just take a nice nap
For Recreation: Cheer, Play Softball, Tumble, Attempt to play tennis, or Play some football
What would be your dream vacation or destination? What do you like best about the state of Mississippi? Where do you see yourself in ten years? What extracurricular activities do you participate in? Who am I? Another thing, to go along with everything else you've learned about me, is that I am involved in all advanced classes, and I am the only cheerleader in advanced classes along with being in the Beta Club. To be in this club you must have an average of at least 95. This is really exciting. Not your average cheerleader, eh? Finally, I love spending time with my family. After all, they are the ones that will be there for you in the end. I also consider my boyfriend, Colby Wakefield, to be a member of my family. We've been dating now for a little over two years. We do alot with my sister's family. Since she has four kids, there is never a dull moment. They're so full of life and they love the park!
In conclusion, this is who Ashley Suzanne Nowell is really and truly. I stay busy, but I'm a very organized person, which makes things so much easier to handle. I'm friendly, smart, fun, and a loving person all around.
Tell us about your platform. This is so dear to me because on July 29th, 2005 I was leaving my boyfriends house going home to my friends house because my Mom was in South Carolina. I remember telling him good-bye and telling him I would call when I got to her house which was about 5 minutes away. Well, I never called so he called me and a police officer answered the phone and told him what had happened. A boy, who was my same age, was speeding and did not see the stop sign. Well he was driving a suburban and I was driving a tiny car. He was going just fast enough to the point he picked my vehicle up and moved it over. My face broke the window, and my leg was trapped in the door. The ambulance and police officers finally arrived and used the jaws of life to get me out of the car. I've been told I was screaming until no end. I don't remember any of this. So Mom gets home and they slowly wake me up from my coma. They explained they had to induce me because I was fighting the morpheine so much that I eventually stopped breathing, and they had to put me on life support. This is such a scary thought. I can only imagine what would have happened had I not been wearing my seatbelt. Doctors, along with everyone else, say that I wouldn't be alive. Luckily, I came out of it with 60 stitches in the left side of my face from my temple to under my chin, a bruised kidney and thalamus (center part of your brain), a black eye, and a broken ankle in which they put a 4 inch titanium plate with 6 screws.
It's now been almost 2 years since my wreck and I am so thankful every single day that I've been given another chance. It showed me just how much I have not done that I want to accomplish. It really makes you think twice about arguing with someone and leaving the conversation on the wrong terms. This is why my platform is so special to me.
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