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A native of Birmingham, Alabama, Deidre grew up
playing sports and earned a full volleyball scholarship
to the University of Virginia. When she gave up her scholarship
to focus on academics, she began competing in the Miss
Alabama Pageant to finance her education. She earned over
$100,000 in scholarships during the five years she competed
and won numerous national awards for her community service
platform accomplishments. She will complete her year of
service as Miss America in January 2006 and will begin
medical school at the University of Alabama later that
year to become a pediatrician.
Accomplishments include:
- National spokesperson for CureSearch childhood cancer
foundation
- Rhodes Scholar finalist
- Accepted to University of
Alabama School of Medicine to begin studies in Fall of
2006
- Magna cum laude graduate of Samford University
- Echols Scholar at the University of Virginia
- 2005 Public Service Award from the American Association
of Cancer Research
- President Bush's Daily Point of Light Award for community
service
- Quality of Life Award from Miss America Organization
recognizing contestant with the greatest accomplishments
in her community service platform
- Creator of Curing Childhood Cancer license plate,
an official Alabama specialty car tag which to date has
raised over $95,000 for pediatric cancer research
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