Candice Bennatt

Background

Bennatt was born in 1989 in Houston to an Italian father and a Puerto Rican mother and raised in the neighborhood of Kingwood.

Education

She graduated from Kingwood High School and earned a bachelor"s degree in biology with a minor in communications from Sam Houston State University. She is currently a law student at Loyola University New Orleans.

Career

She has been a cheerleader for the Houston Texans. She was a past model with the Texas Bikini Team during the 2009/2010 season (appearing in the calendar and poster), and a past contestant for the Swimsuit United States of America Model Search in 2011 (placed in the first preliminary but withdrew from the state finals). As of 2015 she has disowned her past association with the promotional modeling she has done in the Houston, Texas area.

Early pageantry

Bennatt became Mission Albuquerque Outstanding Teen while in high school.

Mission America 2013

Mission United States of America 2015.

Achievements

• Prior to the Mission United States of America pageant she was a promotional model and a past finalist in the Mission Darque Tan 2010 Model Search, and a past contestant with Bikini United States of America (2009). She won Mission Dallas in November 2011 and competed in Mission Texas and placed 4th runner-up. She also won won both the Preliminary Swimwear and Overall Swimwear competitions. Bennatt won Mission New Mexico in June 2012, after which she competed in Mission America 2013. In October 2014 she was crowned Mission Louisiana United States of America 2015 and represented Louisiana at Mission United States of America 2015 where she competed to succeed the current titleholder, Nia Sanchez of Nevada, eventually finishing in the Top 11.