Meet Miss SRivers OT Carly

	Carly Floyd Miss Southern Rivers Outstanding Teen 2006 Carly is currently a senior at Vidalia High School where she is involved in many extra-curricular activities. Beginning in the fall, Carly will be enrolled in the Accel program in which she will be taking three college classes and receive dual credit for each. After graduating next spring, Carly plans to attend Georgia Southern University in order to receive a bachelor’s degree in history, a master’s degree in secondary education, and a minor in dance. This past year as a junior, Carly was a member of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes leadership team, the Beta Club, National Honors Society, Toombs-Montgomery Youth Leadership Class, and member/choreographer for the VHS Competition Show Choir. She received the Georgia National Merit Award from the University of Georgia, received an award for the highest average in her American Literature class, and was selected as member of the Honor Guard at the 2006 graduation ceremony.
Carly has been dancing with the South Central Dance Academy for 9 years and has traveled to numerous dance competitions all over the United States such as: Atlanta, GA; Orlando, FL; Winston-Salem, NC; and Las Vegas, Nevada. She will be traveling to Bristol, TN this July to compete in the Miss American Clogger Pageant. Carly was a member of the Vidalia Recreation Dept. Swim Team for 8 years and placed in the top 8 in the GRPA state swim meet every year. Now she no longer swims on the swim team, but stays in the water constantly as she teaches swimming lessons at the Meadows Wellness Center in Vidalia. The memories and experience gained from competitive swimming and 4 summers of teaching swimming lessons, serve as the foundation for Carly’s platform, Healthy Strokes: water safety and fitness. This platform focuses on the importance of the awareness and prevention of drowning as well as the health benefits associated with swimming. Carly is determined to spread the news that water can serve as a play ground, a place of therapy and healing, and a fitness gym for people of all ages.
She will be competing in the Miss America system for her 4^th year and is thrilled to be returning to the state competition this summer. “I feel that pageants offer so much more than scholarship money,” Carly says, “they give young ladies the opportunity to learn helpful interview skills, gain poise and grace, and make lots of new friends.”

Miss Southern Rivers 2006 Outstanding Teen Appearances
June 16, 2006	Speaker at Hawkinsville Chamber of Commerce
June 10, 2006	"On to Miss Georgia" Party", Columbus, Georgia
May 20, 2006	Salute to Our Troops, Fort Benning, Georgia
May 6, 2006	Performer with SCDA in Soperton, GA for Easter Seals Fundraiser for special education students
April 2006	Speaker at local Elementary Schools Kindergarten classes every Monday and Wednesday about the importance of learning to swim and how to have safe summer in the water
April 29, 2006	First Place in the Kiwanis State Talent Show Competition, Carrollton, Georgia
April 29, 2006	Performed National Anthem at the Vidalia Onion Run
April 28, 2006	Performed National Anthem at the Vidalia Opening Ceremonies
April 10, 2006	Performed with VHS Show Choir at Universal Studios,Orlando, Florida
April 3-7, 2006	VHS Beta Club partners with Carly to sponsor a Drowning Awareness Week at Vidalia High School
March 25, 2006	Performed with South Central Dance Academy, Mt. Vernon, Georgia for the Relay for Life Survivors Banquet
March 24, 2006	First Place in local Kiwanis Talent Showcase
March 18, 2006	Entertained at the Little Miss & Teen Miss Harness Festival Pageants, Hawkinsville, Georgia
March 3, 2006	Guest Performer at Miss Southern Rivers Pageant. Columbus, Georgia
January 11-12, 2006	First Place in Solo Dance Olympus Competition, Atlanta, Georgia
January 4, 2006	Performed for the Retired Teachers Association, Lyons, Georgia
December 7, 2005	Performed with the VHS Show Choir for the Vidalia Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution
December 10, 2005	Columbus Christmas Parade. Columbus, Georgia
December 6, 2005	Performed with the VHS Show Choir at the Altama Gallery
December 3, 2005	First Place in Georgia State Clogger
December 3, 2005	Participated as "Snow White" with the South Central Dance Academy in the Vidalia Christmas Parade, Vidalia, Georgia
November 12, 2005	Performed National Anthem at the Sweet Onion Invitational Cheerleading Competition
November 5, 2005	Steeplechase at Callaway Gardens
October 29, 2005	First Place in Clogging Solo, DTI Dance Competition in Atlanta, Georgia
October 22, 2005	First Place in Clogging Solo, Miss Ultimate Clogger in North Carolina
August 13, 2005	Crowned Miss Southern Rivers Outstanding Teen, Columbus, Georgia