To some family and friends she is known as Scoot. To the rest of the world she is now known as Miss Alabama Teen USA for 2011.
On Sunday, Nov. 7, at the Bama Theatre in Tuscaloosa, Dadeville’s Rae Williams was crowned with the tiara – or what her late maternal grandfather called “shinies” – and drapped with a sash as the winner of the event that included 38 contestants between the ages of 14 and 19.
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