The 20th annual Strawberry Festival Queen Program along with the 18th annual Junior Royalty Contest will take place at 7 p.m. Saturday at Crawfordsville High School.
The Strawberry Festival Queen Program has been a longstanding tradition in Crawfordsville as the program focuses on empowering contestants to reach their best self while enhancing interview, leadership, and overall professional development skills.
Twenty high school girls will compete for the title of the 2025 Strawberry Festival Queen title and 16 children will compete for the titles of the 2025 Strawberry Festival Prince and Princess.
Queen candidates are Roarie Bushon, Rhyan Clemence, Cambryia Cutcliff, Aubrianna Davis, Jaylyn Easterly, Ada Hutson, Brooklyn Kerns, Emma Leonhardt, Zoe McFarland, Addison Meadows, Kaya Money, Maci Nine, Katherine Novak, Naomi Plunkett, Caeleigh Reinkein, Guinevere Schmitzer-Torbert, Vanessa Schultz, Violet Shaw, Ellie Walker and Katelyn Woolwine. The program will award a queen, first runner-up, second runner-up and Miss Congeniality who will reign of the Strawberry Festival, which is June 13-15 at the Lane Place. Other awards include a photogenic award, a mental attitude award and a humanitarian award.
Queen contestants are collecting monetary donations along with themed gift baskets for the Youth Service Bureau and whichever contestant has raised the most funds (including retail value of gift baskets) in her name, will receive the humanitarian award. The community is invited to bring donations the night of the program.
Tickets will be sold at the door and are $7 (cash only) for anyone age 6 and older.
The Strawberry Festival Queen and Junior Royalty Program is directed by Jessica McClamroch. Assisting Jessica are committee members Jayde Anzola, Mary Davis and Jewel Johnson. Sponsors for this year’s program include: PNC Bank, McClamroch Ag, Indiana American Water, JNAVISUALS and PBNG.CO.
Stay updated with the program by following The Montgomery County Strawberry Festival Contest on Facebook or on Instagram at the_strawberry_festival_queen.
