Alissa Anderegg: Pageant Winner, Volunteer and Outstanding Role Model for Young Girls

When you imagine a role model for your daughter, whom do you picture? More than likely you’re thinking of someone famous who has done something huge to benefit human kind, but would your ever consider letting your young daughter look up to a beauty pageant winner? Probably not, but maybe sixteen-year-old, Alissa Anderegg, 2011 Miss Golden Gate’s Outstanding Teen, will change the way you view pageant contestants.

Here are just a few of Alissa’s many accomplishments:

• She played the role of one of the pageant contestants in the 2006 film Little Miss Sunshine.
• First runner-up to Miss California’s Outstanding Teen 2011, 2010 and 2008
• Top 10 at Miss California’s Outstanding Teen 2009
• Volunteered during Old Navy’s Operation Care and Comfort 2010
• She played a part on the popular Nickelodeon show, iCarly.
• Alissa’s played in an assortment of regional theatre productions including The Sound of Music and Annie.
• Her Community theatre productions include The Wizard of Oz, A Christmas Carol, The Sound of Music, Annie, Cinderella and more!
• Some of her modeling jobs included companies such as, GAP Kids, Old Navy, Nordstrom, Gymboree and American Girl.

In addition to her many talents in on screen, singing, modeling and in a pageant dress, Anderegg makes appearances to raise awareness of Alzheimer’s. She has also volunteered 120 hours a year in the National Charity League and another 100 hours a year in numerous other charities. For these reasons, and many more PageantDesigns.com considers Alissa Anderegg to be an outstanding role model for young girls everywhere.