Jennifer Dupont
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| Jennifer Dupont Beauty pageant titleholder |
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| Birth name: | Jennifer Dupont |
| Birth location: |   Shreveport, Louisiana |
| Eye color: | Brown |
| Hair color: | Blonde |
| Title(s): | Miss Louisiana Teen USA 1998 Miss Louisiana USA 2000 Miss Louisiana 2004 |
| Major Competition(s): | Miss Teen USA 1998 Miss USA 2000 Miss America 2005 |
Jennifer Dupont is a beauty pageant contestant who has achieved the honor of the "Triple Crown" - a title given to those who have achieved state titles in the Miss Teen USA, Miss USA and Miss America programmes. As of 2006, only six women have achieved this feat.
Dupont's first title was Miss Louisiana Teen USA 1998.[1][2] The national Miss Teen USA pageant was held close to her home town in Shreveport, Louisiana.[3] Eighteen months later, she won the Miss Louisiana USA 2000 title and at eighteen, was the youngest delegate to compete at Miss USA 2000, held in Branson, Missouri. She failed to place at either pageant.
In 2004 Dupont, now 23, won the Miss America local preliminary title Miss Ouachita Parish and was later crowned Miss Louisiana at the state pageant. At the Miss America 2005 pageant held at Atlantic City, New Jersey she won a preliminary swimsuit award and placed first runner-up to Miss Alabama, Deidre Downs.[4] Dupont bucked the trend among the previous triple crown winners by achieving greater results at Miss America than in the Miss USA/Teen USA pageants.
Whilst still in high school Dupont became a novice elementary school teacher and later graduated from Louisiana State University with a degree in education.
[edit] References
- ^ "Teen Briefs", The Advocate, 1997-11-29.
- ^ "Lafayette woman named Miss La. USA", The Advocate, 1997-11-10. Retrieved on 2007-02-22.
- ^ "Pageant short drive for Miss Teen Louisiana", The Advocate, 1998-08-02. Retrieved on 2007-02-22.
- ^ Segal, David. "Alabamian Is Crowned Miss America", Washington Post, 2004-09-14. Retrieved on 2007-02-22.
