The 21st annual Strawberry Festival Queen Program along with the 19th annual Junior Royalty Contest will take place Saturday at Crawfordsville High School, 1 Athenian Drive.
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 2026 Strawberry Festival Queen title and 13 children will compete for the titles of the 2026 Strawberry Festival Prince and Princess. 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 12-14 at the Lane Place. Other awards include a photogenic award, a mental attitude award and a humanitarian award.
Queen contestants are Mila Blackwell, Jamie Buckler, Roarie Bushong, Mally Chamness, Alilyona Coffman, Cambryia Cutcliff, Aubrianna Davis, Kiaira Howell, Aailyah Keys, Emma Leonhardt, Kaya Money, Laina Newton, Maci Nine, Phoebe Oelrich, Marin Rhoads, Annabelle Rose, Vanessa Schultz, Elle Waggoner and Katelyn Woolwine.
Queen contestants are collecting food items for the FISH Food Pantry and whichever contestant has collected the most items in her name, will receive the humanitarian award. The community is invited to bring donations the night of the program. We are accepting nonperishable food items such as canned fruits, canned vegetables, canned meat, jars of peanut butter, cereal, hamburger helper and other goods.
Tickets will be sold at the door and are $8 (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: McClamroch Ag and JNA Visuals.
Stay updated with the program by following The Montgomery County Strawberry Festival Contest on Facebook or on Instagram at the_strawberry_festival_queen.
