Ocean City Woman Takes Home Inaugral Cara McCollum Scholarship at Miss New Jersey Pageant

Ocean City, NJ -- Ocean City resident and Miss Cape May County Devon Vanderslice was awarded the inaugural Cara McCollum Memorial Scholarship during this weekend’s Miss New Jersey Pageant at the Music Pier in Ocean City, according to nj.com.

The scholarship is named for the former Miss New Jersey who died in a car crash in February.

The scholarship was awarded by McCollum’s boyfriend, NBC 10 News Anchor Keith Jones, according to The Press of Atlantic City. The awarding of the scholarship followed a slideshow presentation in McCollum’s honor, capped by a video of McCollum performing “You’re Sure Gonna Miss Me When I’m Gone.”

Vanderslice and Myra McCann, 23, of Ocean City, both competed in the pageant, which was won by Brenna Weick, 22, of Mantua, Gloucester County, the Courier Post reports.

Her platform was Raising Awareness About Cyber Bullying. She entered the pageant as Miss Seashore Line, according to nj.com.

In the talent portion of the competition, she sang “Someone Like You,” from the Jekyll and Hyde musical.
She was also Miss New Jersey’s Outstanding Teen in 2009, according to nj.com.

Weick graduated from High Point University, according to 6 ABC.

The Miss America Pageant is set for Sept. 11 in Atlantic City.

The attached image of Devon Vanderslice is an Ocean City Patch file photo