100 Hooters Girls From Around the World Compete in the 14th Annual Miss Hooters International Swimsuit Pageant on July 10th in Fort Lauderdale, FL

100 Hooters Girls From Around the World Compete in the 14th Annual Miss Hooters International Swimsuit Pageant on July 10th in Fort Lauderdale, FL

ATLANTA, July 2 /PRNewswire/ -- The most beautiful Hooters Girls from Hooters' 455 locations around the World will be competing at the Hooters International Swimsuit Pageant on July 10th. This year, 100 Hooters Girls from Australia to Atlanta are heading to Fort Lauderdale, FL to compete for $150,000 in cash and prizes at the 14th Annual Hooters International Swimsuit Pageant.

The Hooters Girl contestants were selected to represent their hometowns by competing in local swimsuit contests or were individually chosen to represent their Hooters location. They were selected from over 17,000 Hooters Girls worldwide who presently work in one of the 455 Hooters restaurants across the world.

The week leading up to the pageant the Hooters Girls will be participating in Hooters Magazine and Hooters Calendar photo shoots as well as supporting charitable efforts. On Monday, July 5th the Hooters Girls will pack 20,000 meals for Stop Hunger Now, an international hunger relief agency that delivers meal packets throughout the world. The Hooters Girls will also be making a trip to the Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital on Wednesday, July 7th to visit the children there.

The 14th Annual International Swimsuit Pageant will take place at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts and will be broadcast live on Spike TV at 9 PM ET on July 10th, shown in Hooters restaurants across the country and streamed live at Hooters.com. From evening gowns to swimsuits, the contestants will be judged by a distinguished panel of celebrity judges and photographers.

The first place contestant, Miss Hooters International 2010, will return home with the crown, title and the $50,000 first place prize. She will represent Hooters for the year and be featured in the Hooters Magazine, Hooters Calendar and appear in national TV commercials.

Other awards will be presented to Miss Hooters World, representing Hooters 28 international countries; Miss Hooters Congeniality; Miss Hooters Magazine Reader's Choice, who is selected based of voting at www.Facebook.com/Hooters and Miss Photogenic.

Hooters of America, Inc. is the franchisor and operator of over 455 Hooters restaurants in 42 states and 28 foreign countries. The first Hooters opened in 1983 in Clearwater, Florida. Hooters is well-known for its brand of food and fun, featuring a casual beach-theme atmosphere, a menu that features seafood, sandwiches and Hooters nearly world famous chicken wings, and service provided by the All-American cheerleaders, the Hooters Girls. For more information about Hooters visit www.hooters.com.

First Last Years as
Name Name Age City State Country Hooters HG
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Elicia Kuhl 27 Birmingham AL USA Birmingham 4 years
Stacy Bullock 22 Huntsville AL USA Huntsville 8 mos.
Kaylee Farris 23 Ft. Smith AR USA Ft. Smith 3 years
Rachel Mortenson 25 Phoenix AZ USA Phoenix 3 years
Carla Valdiserri 19 Tempe AZ USA Tempe 6 mos.
Theresa Trujillo 23 Campbell CA USA Campbell 3 years
Cindy Quiralte 23 Fresno CA USA Fresno 4 years
Elizabeth Moomjian 23 Fresno CA USA Natomas 4 years
Sherri Lansang 23 Long Beach CA USA Long Beach 4 years
Adiamond Baker 23 Denver CO USA Colorado Blvd. 4 years
Meagan Cyr 24 Clearwater FL USA Clearwater 5 years
Lindsey Way 21 Ft. Lauderdale FL USA Cypress Creek 1 yr. 5
mos.
Janet Layug 21 Lakeland FL USA North Lakeland 3 years
Casey Luckey 28 Melbourne FL USA Melbourne 5 years
Amber Workman 22 Orange Park FL USA Orange Park 4 years
Jessica Moody 24 Orlando FL USA Waterford Lakes 4 1/2
years
Megan Corley 19 Orlando FL USA Orlando Airport 1 1/2
years
Ally Durant 28 Pensacola FL USA Midvale 8 years
Sam Wiggins 23 Pensacola FL USA Pensacola 4 years
Beach Beach
Carra O'Sullivan 22 Sarasota FL USA Sarasota 5 years
Ashley Held 21 West Palm Beach FL USA West Palm Beach 2 years
Ericka Whitaker 27 Atlanta GA USA Downtown 3 years
Linzey Bowens 20 Atlanta GA USA Downtown Atlanta 2 years
Michelle Sacco 24 Atlanta GA USA Cumberland 4 years
Sam Arena 21 Atlanta GA USA Cumberland 2 months
Erin Pawlak 21 Augusta GA USA Augusta 8 mos.
Gretchen Worthan 27 Cartersville GA USA Cartersville 4 years
Ashleigh Dunn 23 Newnan GA USA Newnan 4 1/2 years
Sam Adams 20 Roswell GA USA Roswell 2 1/2 years
Alex Phipps 24 Boise ID USA Boise 4 years
Kami Galloway 24 Bloomington IL USA Bloomington 5 1/2 years
Kelley Stoddard 20 Chicago IL USA Crystal Lake 1 year
Kathleen Edge 25 Fairview Heights IL USA Fairview Heights 1 year,
9 mos.
Clarissa Hatton 18 Rockford IL USA Rockford 3 mos.
Krissy Zoch 23 Rockford IL USA Rockford 5 years
Katie Kempf 24 Evansville IN USA Evansville 3 years,
9 mos.
Amanda Mertz 22 Jeffersonville IN USA Jeffersonville 3 years
Kari Miller 24 Baton Rouge LA USA Siegen Lane
Tia Jackson 25 Saugus MA USA Saugus 5 1/2 years
Victoria Brown 22 Baltimore MD USA Harborplace 3 years
Sarah Hinton 20 Lansing MI USA Lansing 2 years
Brittany Richter 20 Roseville MI USA Roseville 2 years
Chelsie Hurst 20 Saginaw MI USA Saginaw 2 years
Keri Kranz 22 Columbia MO USA Columbia 3 years
Katie Ellison 23 Kansas City MO USA Kansas City Speedway 3 years
Mary Casalme 24 Biloxi MS USA Biloxi 1 year, 8 mos.
Sammy Kuroski 22 Missoula MT USA Missoula 2 years
Kristen Bouchillon 27 Greensboro NC USA Greensboro 2 years
Dominique Alfaro 19 Hickory NC USA Hickory 1 1/2 years
Stephanie Haney 25 Raleigh NC USA Raleigh Airport 3 yrs
Sam Dressler 20 Bismarck ND USA Bismarck 2 years
Melissa Lilly 23 Omaha NE USA Omaha 4 1/2 years
Tara McGaha 22 Atlantic City NJ USA Tropicana 2 years
Megan Dedousis 24 East Brunswick NJ USA East Brunswick 4 1/2 years
Karizma Ramirez 19 Wayne NJ USA Wayne 1 year
Diana Garzon 26 Fresh Meadows NY USA Fresh Meadows 13 mos.
Alison Heath 22 San Mateo NY USA San Mateo 6 Months
LeAngela Davis 25 Columbus OH USA Columbus 4 1/2
years
Jessica Pribonic 25 Toledo OH USA Toledo 6 1/2 years
Lauren Waugh 21 Tulsa OK USA Tulsa 8 mos.
Adrean Butler 25 Portland OR USA Jantzen Beach 4 years
Keereea Veres 19 Altoona PA USA Altoona 3 mos.
Brittainy Taylor 21 Concord PA USA Concord 2 years
Jordan Nolan 20 Anderson SC USA Anderson 3 years
Jessica Lundy 19 Columbia SC USA East Columbia 1 1/2
years
Wendy Foster 29 Rock Hill SC USA Rock Hill 3 1/2
years
Jessica Sisk 22 Johnson City TN USA Johnson City 1 1/2
years
Courtney Whittington 19 Memphis II TN USA Wolfchase 13 mos.
Kara Harper 21 Murfeesboro TN USA Murfreesboro 1 yr.
10 mos.
Brittany Wolfe 25 Nashville TN USA Rivergate 3 years
Brittni Reilly 19 Grapevine TX USA Grapevine 1 year
Courtney Small 21 Grapevine TX USA Grapevine 2 years
Susan Murray 25 Katy TX USA Katy 5 years
Brittany Daniel 25 Killeen TX USA Killeen 4 years
Heather Brady 22 Killeen TX USA Killeen 4 1/2 years
Elly Mercado 25 Plano TX USA Plano 3 years
Linsey Boggess 22 Plano TX USA Plano 1 1/2 years
Alyssa Rodriguez 19 San Antonio TX USA San Pedro 1 yr. 6 mos.
Allison Baker 20 Salt Lake City UT USA Pensacola 2 years
Whitney Williams 22 Chantilly VA USA Chantilly 3 years
CJ Lancione 26 Newport News VA USA Newport News 7 years
Ashley Knight 23 Seattle WA USA South Park 5 1/2 years
Rachel Fashing 24 Madison WI USA Madison 7 years
Maribeth Hetzer 18 Huntington WV USA Huntington 3 months
Arlet Velez Acapulco Mexico Acapulco
Donna Watson 29 Cancun Mexico Cancun 6 mos.
Kris Badilla 22 Costa Rica Costa Rica San Jose 3 years
Anna Kriegel 19 Frankfurt Germany Frankfurt 7 months
Catha Perez 21 Gran Canaria Spain Grand Canary 5 months
Wendy Linares 27 Guatemala Guatemala City 2 1/2 years
Lisa Pantke 26 Karlsruhe Germany Karlsruhe 9 mos.
Naty Gaviria 22 Medellin Colombia Medellin 10 mos.
Vanessa Timperio 22 Montreal Canada Montreal 1 year
Rosanna Newman 21 Nottingham England Nottingham 18 months
Valery Rivera Panama City Panama
Kylie Whyte 20 Parramatta Australia Parramatta 10 mos.
Samantha Hudyma 24 Toronto Canada Toronto Airport 6 years
Jamaica Nicolson 21 Umhlanga South Africa Umhlanga 1 year
Alison Adams 24 Winnipeg Canada Winnipeg 4 years
Violeta Castillo 24 Dominican Republic Santo Domingo 3 mos.

Source: Hooters of America, Inc.

CONTACT: Alexis Aleshire, Public Relations Manager, Hooters of America,
+1-678-281-4100, aaleshire@hooters.com

Web Site: http://www.hooters.com/

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