Jennifer Dupont

Pageant titleholder bio
photo=
title=Miss Louisiana Teen USA 1998
Miss Louisiana USA 2000
Miss Louisiana 2004
nationalcompetition=Miss Teen USA 1998
Miss USA 2000
Miss America 2005
location= Shreveport, Louisiana, U.S.
birthname= Jennifer Dupont
eye color= Brown
hair color=Blonde

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. [cite news|publisher=The Advocate|title=Teen Briefs|date=1997-11-29] [cite news|title=Lafayette woman named Miss La. USA|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=AD&p_theme=ad&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB4787E25818416&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|date=1997-11-10|publisher=The Advocate|accessdate=2007-02-22] The national Miss Teen USA pageant was held close to her home town in Shreveport, Louisiana. [cite news|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=AD&p_theme=ad&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB478B14F36A1AD&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|publisher=The Advocate|accessdate=2007-02-22|title=Pageant short drive for Miss Teen Louisiana|date=1998-08-02] 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. [cite news|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32502-2004Sep18.html|title=Alabamian Is Crowned Miss America|date=2004-09-14|accessdate=2007-02-22|first=David|last=Segal|publisher=Washington Post] 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. She was also a Golden Girl while at Louisiana State University. After graduation she opened her own dress shop in south Louisiana. Jennifer was recently married.

References

External links

* [http://www.misslouisianausa.com Miss Louisiana USA & Teen USA official website]
* [http://www.misslouisiana.org Miss Louisiana official website]
* [http://www.missteenusa.com Miss Teen USA official website]
* [http://www.misslouisianausa.com Miss USA official website]
* [http://www.missamerica.org Miss America official website]