Miss Red River Valley 2025
O'Brien Stromsodt

​​        COMMUNITY SERVICE INITIATIVE: 
            Addiction a Family Disease

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Hello Everyone! My name is O'Brien Stromsodt, and I am your 2025 Miss Red River Valley!
I was born and raised in Middle River, MN, and have currently moved back to my hometown to pursue my career in education. 
I graduated with Honors from Bemidji State University with a B.S. in Elementary Education. 
Currently I am a first-year kindergarten teacher at the MCC school district and am loving every second of my professional journey. 
My CSI is Addiction: A Family Disease, where I am working to educate people about addiction, and shining a new light for the future of families in need of support. There are 46.8 million addicts in the United States, which means that 46.8 million families are being affected. Society focuses so much on the addicts, and the families are forgotten. I want to help turn our focus onto families and help them become stronger so they can show up as their best selves, during these dark times. 

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                                  Who is Miss Red River Valley?
The Miss Moorhead Program is an organization to encourage positive achievement by helping to build the scholastic achievement, creative accomplishments, healthy living and community involvement of our young professional women. This competition is intended to encourage and reward the talent, communication skills, community service, and academic achievements of women.

Miss Red River Valley may be called upon to appear at a variety of functions throughout the community of Moorhead, where she will be asked to speak, possibly perform her talent, and interact with people of all ages. At all of these appearances, she must be gracious, well spoken, attractive and well groomed, approachable and friendly in order to meet the public’s expectation of a titleholder. She must also set an example of someone who has passion and initiative regarding her chosen Community Social initiative Issue. 

Miss Moorhead must also conscientiously prepare to compete for the State title of Miss Minnesota . She should consider her preparation her duty to represent all the young women in her state to the absolute best of her ability. She must make the time in her busy life to hone her skills in Interview, Talent, and Evening Wear presentations, as well as keep up a healthy lifestyle and fitness program. She should be sure her State paperwork is thoroughly and correctly completed, and submitted on time.  She must be able to undertake all of these responsibilities while she continues to maintain her scholastic and/or professional commitments. while making time to enjoy her family and friends.

A Miss Moorhead’s Year of Service should be an exciting, busy, and important year in her life. She is an exceptional, charismatic young professional woman who leaves an inspiring and enduring impression on everyone she meets.

       Eligibility Requirements
Miss Age Requirements*
Miss America 18-28 – must be 18 by state competition,  and no older than 27 at state competition of MN State Competition June.

​MISS Candidates must be high school graduates or have passed the high school equivalency examination (G.E.D.) by the date of the finals of the State Pageant of the year in which they would
be eligible to compete in the National Finals
of the Miss America Pageant.

Residence
Rules for Residency 
1) Reducing the six-month residency requirement to thirty (30) days prior to a local competition and ninety (90) days prior to a state competition without locals;
2) Eliminating the requirement to complete at least one semester and allowing college/university acceptance and enrollment to physically attend classes; and
3) Reducing the twenty-six weeks of full-time employment to sixty (60) days of continuous full-time employment.  

Citizenship
Must be a citizen of the United States of America at the time she enters her first competition.

Education
Must be a high school graduate or have successfully completed the GED testing program for high school equivalency or have successfully completed the academic requirements for entry into a college/university degree program by July 30th immediately preceding the National Finals.

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