Ashlee Baracy
| Beauty pageant titleholder | |
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| Born |
Ashlee Nicole Baracy April 22, 1985 Westland, Michigan, USA |
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| Education |
John Glenn High School (Westland, Michigan) University of Michigan |
| Hair color | Blonde |
| Eye color | Blue |
| Title(s) |
Miss Michigan 2008 Miss Wayne County 2008 |
| Major competition(s) | Miss America 2009 (Top 10) |
Ashlee Nicole Baracy (born April 22, 1985) is an American beauty pageant winner. She was Miss Michigan 2008 and finished in the Top 10 at Miss America 2009 on January 24, 2009.[1]
She was also the first runner-up for the Quality of Life Award. Baracy's platform was "Breast Cancer Awareness and Education". Baracy has been a caregiver for her mother who is a breast cancer survivor of five years. She took on the mission to create an online support network that went live in 2007. She is a founder of BCDaughters.com, which is an international Web site that serves as an outlet for breast cancer victims. She has worked on fundraising efforts for the American Cancer Society and also has become a legislative ambassador and has lobbied in Washington for cancer research.[2] Baracy's competition talent was Jazz Dance.
Baracy was born in Westland, Michigan where she currently resides, and graduated from John Glenn High School. She is a student at the University of Michigan. She says she is paying for her education through her previous pageant winnings.[3]
Baracy was a former Michigan's Junior Miss 2003, a Top Ten Finalist and Overall Fitness Winner at America's Junior Miss 2003, a first runner-up at National Sweetheart 2007, a Miss Michigan Preliminary Swimsuit Award 2008, and a Miss America 2008 Academic Scholarship winner.
More recently, she served as the spokesperson for the city of Westland's television advertising campaign.[4]
Baracy was a morning traffic reporter for WDIV-TV Channel 4 in Detroit.[5]
As of Oct 1, 2015, she began a new chapter in her life by accepting a meteorologist position at WBNS-TV in Columbus, Ohio.
References
- ↑ "Miss America : 2009 National Contestants". Miss America Organization. June 12, 2010. Retrieved June 12, 2010.
- ↑ "Miss Kentucky Emily Cox wins Quality of Life Award and $6,000 scholarship". Vegas DeLuxe. January 22, 2009. Retrieved January 30, 2010.
- ↑ "Detroit Channel 4 news". Archived from the original on October 22, 2008.
- ↑ "Westland promotes city businesses with TV ads". Detroit News. June 24, 2010.
- ↑ "Ashlee Baracy Local 4 Traffic". November 2, 2011. Retrieved April 25, 2014.
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| Awards and achievements | ||
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| Preceded by Gina Valo |
Miss Michigan 2008 |
Succeeded by Nicole Blaszczyk |
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