Chelsea Chilcott

By Linda Stinnett

Chelsea Chilcott was crowned as Miss Arkansas Valley 2012 during the Miss Kansas preliminary pageant on Feb. 4 in Belle Plaine. 

She will compete in the Miss Kansas pageant on June 9 in Pratt.

Chilcott, 19, won the Marsha Parkins Talent Award at Miss Arkansas Valley for her ventriloquist performance, Coffee in a Cardboard Cup. She has been performing ventriloquism for over 11 years.

Her platform issue is Building the Circle – Importance of Peer Mentoring. Chilcott has volunteered as a peer mentor in the past and was named Buddy of the Year by the Arc of Sedgwick County.

Chilcott, a 2011 graduate of Derby High School, is a freshman at Butler Community College. She is pursuing a degree in mass communications with a minor in music production. 

She is the daughter of Bart Chilcott and Diane Chilcott of Derby.