Coed Weekend meeting with Director from IL

We met with Michael Galanes from Little Miss Perfect fame, he hosts the show, is the IL American Coed pageant director. He is soooo great. So kind, talented and smart and so young looking.

All the IL contestants for nationals met Saturday for a two hour meeting. We have a total of 12 girls competing. Two for Victory the sister pageant to American Coed and 10 for Americna Coed. The meeting was great. We talked about how the optionals and the queens part of the pageant. The same judges judging optionals judge the victory queens pageant. A different set of judges judge the American Coed Queens part of the pageant.

The American Coed Queen pageant consists of 5 girls at a time going into a room in front of 5 judges, they each introduce themselves and model their interview suit and then submit to the judges in individual interviews and rotate. Sheridan has to get a new suit and taupe shoes. We are meeting with a Seamstress/dressmaker tomorrow to have a nice suit of brown and coral - her colors be made. We are also having her dresses all adjusted, she grew since we bought them and they need to be floor length so they need to be lengthened and taken in too.

For optionals the judges are on the left of the stage when on the stage and for the queens part they are on the right of the stage.

On Sunday we had a coaching/private meeting with Michael and Krystal Williams - his assistant and the person who may take over as director of IL pageant. She knows Coed because she competed in prior years.

We came prepared but learned a lot. Michael gave us two new actress routines to learn, a new speech for optionals as well and a new intro for the interview portion. Sheridan was like, Oh My God, how am i going to learn all of this, but she is already on her way. She has a great knack for learning and memorizing and will then make it her own.

I have to get her a new outfit for actress. She has a "rock" theme in her two routines so we are creating a rockers outfit.

So much to do, so little time. We still need more sponsors too but I havent made calls lately. Picked up $25 from Jamaican Gardens in Libertyville, our latest sponsor.

We also picked out a new photo to submit for photgenic - need to send that in and swap it out for the old one.

That about sums most of it up.
Need to have a suit made and buy taupe shoes.
Need to have dresses taken in and lengthened
Need to learn new intro
need to learn new speech
need to learn two new actress routines.

But we are still having fun, I think.