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Cassidy Wildermuth may be the first-ever bona-fide redneck “Miss Pryor.” “Yes, I’m probably the only one who has killed and gutted a deer,” said the 17-year-old daughter of Larry and Glena Wildermuth. The sister of three brothers – Chisholm, 24, Laramie, 21, and Remington, 14 – took a doe during rifle season 2005 and harvested a nine-point buck last season. “My rifle is a 250 Savage with Leopold 3.9 scope, by the way. My dad bought it as my baby present,” smiled the natural beauty with the kind of personality that attracts teasing comments from just about everyone who walks by at the high school and sees her being interviewed. Ask her about her driving record? “Let’s save that for another story,” laughed Cassidy. Did she tell you she eats six meals a day? “They recommend six small meals a day, but I eat six big meals a day,” said the small-frame girl with high metabolism. In addition to being the first Pryor beauty to bag a buck, Cassidy may be one of the first to slide and dive in dirt well enough to earn All-Conference and All-District honors in fast-pitch softball, which she did for the Tigerettes last fall as the speedy leadoff hitter and outfielder. More traditionally, she has been a member of the pom squad for three years, baseball trainer for three years, lifeguard for two years, a member of every choir the school offers, Fellowship of Christian Athletes – and she’s a carhop at Chouteau’s Sonic. Cassidy, who won $2,000 worth of college scholarships for capturing the Miss Pryor title -- $1,000 from Pryor Creek Sertoma Club, $500 from Brooke Haley memorial and $500 from Rogers State University, plans to continue competing in pageants with hopes of vying for Miss Okahoma honors and then, perhaps, Miss America. Before becoming Miss Pryor, she was Miss Teen Claremore and competed in Miss Teen Oklahoma. How’d she do at Miss Teen Oklahoma? “Nothing, but it was a great experience and taught me some things to help me later on,” said the young lady who edged out fellow senior Kaitlyn Tittle for the Miss Pryor crown. The other runner-ups were senior Angel Marks, sophomore Emily Clinton and junior Celeste Otto. (Abby Stephens won the non-finalist talent award, Marks also won the Miss Congeniality Award, and Tittle also won the Sertoma alumni scholarship). Cassidy has already competed in a couple of Miss Oklahoma preliminaries – Miss Route 66 and Miss Southern Delaware County – and plans to keep competing for scholarship money and a possible title that will launch her into the Miss Oklahoma Pageant. (The Miss Pryor Pageant is not sanctioned by Miss Oklahoma). “You have to start somewhere and I have to remember that I’m 17 competing against girls up to 24 years old, and the more you do the more practice you get and the better you get,” said Cassidy. Her platform is the passage of legislation to make CPR training a requirement for all seventh graders – and school teachers.
“It’s a one-day class and it’s something everyone needs to know. You can use it to save someone’s life,” said Cassidy Cassidy has a stage presence rare for someone her age, but she has been on stage since she was a 4-year-old with her smiling face popping out of a pumpkin during a Missoula Children’s Theatre production at Pryor High School Auditorium. “I’ve been on stage ever since,” said Cassidy. “I get nervous when I’m back stage waiting to go on, but once the curtain goes up and I walk on stage it all goes away. I love being on stage. I’m more comfortable on stage than I am in the school cafeteria.” She has been in 13 consecutive Missoula productions during summers in Pryor and she performed at the Tulsa Performing Arts Center with the touring group of Godspell. Cassidy was first runner-up to Nicole Kolker in the Miss Pryor Pageant during her sophomore year, singing “I’m A Woman” from “Smokey Joe’s Café.” She did not compete last year when her brother, Laramie, was paralyzed in an automobile accident, and she won this year singing “Gimme, Gimme” from the musical “Thoroughly Modern Millie.” Ten years from now, she can see herself singing on stage in some form or fashion – or maybe just leading praise and worship at a church on Sundays.
But she also sees herself teaching kindergarten. “I love little kids,” said Cassidy, a “Teacher Cadet” who has been helping Amanda Douglas with her kindergarteners at Roosevelt Elementary School. (Mom was a second grade teacher at one time). “I’ve always said I wanted to make a lot of money, but working with the kindergarten kids kind of opened my eyes to what I wanted to do,” said Cassidy, who also teaches youths to swim as a water safety instructor. “I figure I’d be better off doing something I really enjoyed than making a lot of money. “So marrying rich would be my next step,” laughed Cassidy.