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==External links==
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Destiny Vélez
Born
Destiny Noelle Vélez Segarra

(1995-11-19) November 19, 1995 (age 28)
EducationPrairie View A&M University
Beauty pageant titleholder
TitleMiss Fort Worth 2014
Miss Trujillo Alto 2015
Miss Puerto Rico 2015
Hair colorBrown
Eye colorBrown
Major
competition(s)		Miss America 2016

Destiny Noelle Vélez Segarra (born November 19, 1995) is a beauty pageant titleholder from San Juan, Puerto Rico, who was crowned Miss Puerto Rico 2015. She will compete for the Miss America 2016 title in September 2015.

Pageant career

Early pageants

As a child, Vélez participated in National American Miss pageants. In 2005, she was named Miss Texas (North) Junior Pre-Teen.[1] She vied for the 2005 National All-American Miss Junior Preteen title but she was not a Top 10 finalist.[2] In 2009, she was named 2009 Miss Texas (North) Junior Teen, Division 1.[3] She vied for the 2009 National American Miss Junior Teen title and placed 3rd runner-up for the national title.[4]

Entering the Miss America system, Vélez vied for the Miss Texas' Outstanding Teen title four times, placing well but never claiming the state title. In 2009, she was Miss Teen Tarrant County and placed second runner up.[5] In 2010, as Miss Teen White Rock Lake, Velez placed tenth overall but drew notice for her "crowd-pleasing performance" of "Wipe Out" on drums.[6][7] In 2011, she was named Miss Teen Fort Worth 2011 and won eighth place at the state pageant.[8][9][10] In 2012, Vélez entered the state pageant as Miss Hunt County’s Outstanding Teen 2012 but was not a Top-10 finalist.[11][12]

Competing as an adult, Vélez won the Miss Fort Worth 2014 title.[13] She competed in the 2014 Miss Texas pageant with the platform "Bully-Free: It Starts With Me!" and an acoustic drum performance in the talent portion of the competition.[14][15] She was not a Top 10 finalist for the state title.[16]

Miss Puerto Rico 2015

Returning to her native Puerto Rico to compete, Vélez was crowned Miss Trujillo Alto 2015. She entered the Miss Puerto Rico pageant in July 2015 as one of 13 qualifiers for the commonwealth title.[17] Vélez's competition talent was an instrumental performance on acoustic drums. Her platform is the "#UpStander" anti-bullying campaign.[17]

Vélez won the competition on Saturday, July 11, 2015, when she received her crown from outgoing Miss Puerto Rico titleholder Yarelis Salgado.[18][19] She earned several thousand dollars in scholarship money and other prizes from the commonwealth pageant. As Miss Puerto Rico, her activities include public appearances across the archipelago of Puerto Rico. Vélez will be Puerto Rico's representative at the Miss America 2016 pageant in Atlantic City, New Jersey, in September 2015.[17][19]

Early life and education

Vélez is a native of San Juan, Puerto Rico, but her family relocated to the Fort Worth, Texas, area when she was five years old.[8] Her mother is Laura Segarra.[13] She has one older brother.[11]

She is a 2014 graduate of L. D. Bell High School in Hurst, Texas.[13][20] Vélez was a championship bowler in high school with two perfect 300 games to her credit, her first at age 15.[11][13] Vélez is a student at Prairie View A&M University in Prairie View, Texas, where she is a member of the bowling team.[13][20][21]

References

  1. ^ "2005 State Texas (North)". National American Miss. 2005. Retrieved July 19, 2015.
  2. ^ "2205 National Results: National All-American Miss Jr. Preteen & Court". National American Miss. 2005. {{cite web}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); Missing or empty |url= (help)
  3. ^ "2009 State Results". National American Miss. 2009. Retrieved July 19, 2015.
  4. ^ "2009 National Finalists: National American Miss Jr. Teen & Court". National American Miss. 2009. Retrieved July 19, 2015.
  5. ^ "2009 Pageant Results". Miss Texas. Archived from the original on November 27, 2011. Retrieved July 18, 2015. {{cite web}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; November 27, 2010 suggested (help)
  6. ^ Sakmari, Elvira; Lee, Jordan (July 6, 2010). "Miss Fort Worth is 75th Miss Texas". Fort Worth, TX: KXAS-TV. Retrieved July 18, 2015.
  7. ^ "2010 Final Results". Miss Texas. Archived from the original on August 24, 2010. Retrieved July 18, 2015.
  8. ^ a b Porterfield, Kayla (May 3, 2011). "Destiny Velez". Miss Teen Fort Worth. Retrieved July 18, 2015 – via Vimeo.
  9. ^ "Miss Fort Worth's Outstanding Teen: Destiny Velez". Miss Texas. Archived from the original on July 10, 2011. Retrieved July 18, 2015.
  10. ^ "2011 Final Results". Miss Texas. Archived from the original on July 8, 2011. Retrieved July 18, 2015.
  11. ^ a b c Velez, Destiny (February 19, 2012). "Facing challenge of living in sibling's shadow". Herald-Banner. Greenville, TX: Community Newspaper Holdings. Retrieved July 18, 2015.
  12. ^ "Miss Hunt County's Outstanding Teen: Destiny Noelle Velez". Miss Texas. Archived from the original on October 2, 2012. Retrieved July 18, 2015.
  13. ^ a b c d e "Bowling Adds DFW Metroplex Standout Destiny Velez To 2014-15 Roster". Prairie View, TX: Prairie View A&M Panthers and Lady Panthers. December 2, 2013. Retrieved July 18, 2015.
  14. ^ "State Contestants: Texas - 2014". Miss America. 2014. Retrieved July 18, 2015.
  15. ^ "Miss Texas-2014 Contestants". Miss Texas. Retrieved July 18, 2015.
  16. ^ "Miss Texas 2014 Is Monique Evans". The Gilmer Mirror. Gilmer, TX. July 6, 2014. Retrieved July 19, 2015.
  17. ^ a b c "State Contestants: Puerto Rico - 2015". Miss America. 2015. Retrieved July 18, 2015.
  18. ^ "Prairie View bowler crowned Miss Puerto Rico 2015". Southwestern Athletic Conference. July 14, 2015. Archived from the original on July 18, 2015. Retrieved July 18, 2015.
  19. ^ a b "Prairie View Bowler Crowned Miss Puerto Rico 2015". Houston Style Magazine. Houston, TX. July 16, 2015. Retrieved July 18, 2015.
  20. ^ a b "Miss Puerto Rico 2015". Miss Puerto Rico. Archived from the original on July 18, 2015. Retrieved July 18, 2015.
  21. ^ "Destiny Velez - 2014-15 Bowling". Prairie View, TX: Prairie View A&M Panthers and Lady Panthers. Retrieved July 18, 2015.
Awards and achievements
Preceded by Miss Puerto Rico
2015 		Succeeded by
Incumbent
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