Camille Schrier

Schrier was born in Doylestown, Pennsylvania to Thomas and Cheryl (née Camillo) Schrier. She has one older sibling. As a child, Schrier was diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. During the Miss America 2020 competition, Schrier also revealed that she was diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder and recovered from an eating disorder as a teenager. Schrier graduated with honors from the Hun School of Princeton in 2013. During high school, Schrier was a multi-sport varsity athlete; participating in track and field, swimming, and field hockey. At Virginia Tech, she was in Kappa Delta sorority. ==Pageantry==

Summer Tour, July 1, 2021, at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas Early pageantry Schrier began competing in pageants at the age of 14. Miss Virginia 2019 pageant On June 22, 2019, she competed as Miss Dominion 2019 at the Miss Virginia 2019 pageant in Lynchburg, Virginia after a 6-year hiatus from competing in pageants. For the talent competition, she completed a chemistry demonstration of the catalytic decomposition of hydrogen peroxide with potassium iodide (also known as "elephant toothpaste"). At the conclusion of the pageant, she was crowned Miss Virginia 2019 and took a year off from pharmacy school to fulfill her responsibilities as Miss Virginia. Miss America 2020 competition Schrier represented Virginia at the Miss America 2020 competition held at Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Connecticut, on December 19, 2019, with a platform of "Mind Your Meds: Drug Safety and Abuse Prevention from Pediatrics to Geriatrics." She bested first runner-up, Miss Georgia 2019, Victoria Hill, for the Miss America 2020 title and was crowned by Miss America 2019, Nia Franklin, on December 19, 2019. Along with the title of Miss America, Schrier also won a $50,000 scholarship and a $2,000 scholarship for her preliminary talent competition win. Schrier was the fourth Miss Virginia (and second Virginia Tech alumna) to win the Miss America title. Schrier's reign was originally scheduled to end in December 2020, but the planned 2021 competition was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with the next pageant scheduled at the end of 2021, became the longest-reigning Miss America titleholder since Mary Katherine Campbell in nearly a century. ==References==