Chelsea Malone

Education

West Virginia University.

Career

Early contests

Malone began singing publicly at age 9 and started regularly performing "The Star-Spangled Banner" before West Virginia Mountaineers men"s basketball games when she was 12. Early pageants

She competed in the 2013 Mission West Virginia pageant on a platform of "Mental Health Advocacy at its Congress of Racial Equality: Community Outreach, Research, and Education" and performed a vocal in the talent portion of the competition. She was named was third runner-up for the state title.

She competed in the 2014 Mission West Virginia pageant on a platform of "Mental Health Advocacy at the Congress of Racial Equality: Community Outreach, Research, and Education" and performed a country music vocal in the talent portion of the competition.

Mission West Virginia 2015

On July 26, 2014, Malone was crowned Mission Wheeling 2015. She was one of 21 women who qualified to compete in the 2015 Mission West Virginia pageant at the Metropolitan Theatre in Morgantown.

Malone"s competition talent was a vocal performance. Her platform is "Mental Health Advocacy at the Congress of Racial Equality: Community Outreach, Research, and Education".

She earned several thousand dollars in scholarship money and prizes from the state pageant.

As Mission West Virginia, her activities include public appearances across the state of West Virginia. In the televised finale on September 13, 2015, she placed in the Top 15 as a semi-finalist but was eliminated after the swimsuit competition. Malone is a native of Morgantown, West Virginia.

She is a 2010 graduate of Morgantown High School.

Malone is a graduate of West Virginia University with a bachelor"s degree in finance.

Achievements

• She competed for the Mission America 2016 title in September 2015 and placed in the Top 15. While a student at Morgantown High School, she won the West Virginia Idol competition in 2008 which earned her an audition for American Idol. As a student at West Virginia University, Malone won the Mountaineer Idol 2011 title. In February 2013, Malone won the Mission Capital City 2013 title. On August 3, 2013, Malone won the Mission Northern West Virginia 2014 title. Malone won the competition on Wednesday, July 1, 2015, when she received her crown from outgoing Mission West Virginia titleholder Paige Madden. Vying for Mission America 2016 Malone was West Virginia"s representative at the Mission America 2016 pageant in Atlantic City, New Jersey, in September 2015. Malone was awarded a $4,000 scholarship prize.

Membership

While a student at WVU, Malone became a member of the Alpha Phi Omega national co-ed service fraternity.