Miss Universe® Canada 2008 - The Magic Continues

AGE: 19 | HEIGHT: 5'7" | HOMETOWN: STANDOFF, AB

Chelsea is a 19 year old from the Kainai First Nation located in Southern Alberta, and has since moved to Calgary, to pursue her post-secondary education. She is in her 2nd year of college working towards her Petroleum Engineering Technology Degree in Calgary, AB.

This past year she had the opportunity to be apart of the college x-country team and made it to the provincial and national finals. Her interests range from horse-back riding to sports and modeling.

Sponsored by: Family and Friends.

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Chelsea was honoured to be the representative for the Western Regional Top Native Model allowing her to continue to the finals in Toronto in December 2007 to compete for the national title. She was overjoyed and honoured to have won the National Title in Toronto and has since used the title to speak to students of all ages around Southern Alberta focusing on getting the message out on how to pursue and follow their dreams.

Her main goal is to reach out to the youth and hopefully have some influence, because she believes that the young people are our future, and this message is very important, especially with so many negative challenges the young people face today.

Chelsea has been recognized locally as a young inspirational role model and plans to advance her positive reputation nationally by competing for the Miss Universe Canada title. Chelsea is very excited and honoured to be apart of this unique opportunity and plans to have her platform focused on the young people, who are very important to her. She is not just doing this pageant for herself but for the young people that inspire her and by those that may be influenced by her past accomplishments and inspirations.

She plans to leave a positive influence amongst the younger generation to follow their dreams because the sky's the limit. The message she promotes when she has the privilege to speak to the young people is that "STRIVERS ACHIEVE WHAT DREAMERS BELIEVE, DON'T BE AFRAID TO TAKE THE LEAD". This is precisely what Chelsea plans to do as she strives to accomplish all of her goals.

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Are you a current student? If yes, where?
Yes, currently studying Petroleum Land Management at SAIT (Southern Alberta Institute of Technology) in Calgary, Alberta.

Languages Spoken Fluently:
-English
-Blackfoot

List and Special Training you have had (music, art, drama, dance, etc)
Took drama first year in college at Mount Royal College in Calgary, Alberta.
Native Fancy Dance

In what sports, have you participated and how long have you participated in each sport?
Played basketball for 8 years. Won zone and provincial titles in middle school and high school. Currently play intramural basketball at SAIT.
Participated in x-country running for 9 years. Went to zone and provincials in x-country in middle school and high school. Went to college provincial and Nationals with SAIT in the fall of 2007.
Won 3 gold medals in the North American Indigenous games for track and field. Participated in track and field for 10 years.

Please List any schools and universities you have or are attending, as well as the area of study, graduation date and any degree or certification you received.
- Graduated from Kainai High School in 2006 (High School diploma)
- 2006-2007 Mount Royal College (General Arts & Science)
- 2007-2008 SAIT (Southern Alberta Institute of Technology) - Petroleum Land Management.

What charity/ charities have you supported with your time and/ or resources over past two years?
Have helped raise funds for Kids Help Phone in High school
Helped raise funds for Breast Cancer.

What would be your "Dream Job" in life?
My dream job is to be an actress and a positive, and inspirational speaker.

Name one person, other than your parents, who has had the most influence on your life? Why?
The people who have had a big influence on my life while growing up were my teachers through school. Because without them I wouldn't have been able to accomplish my years of schooling and carry on into post secondary with the discipline they have given me throughout the years.

What is the proudest personal accomplishment?
Making college provincials and than advancing to college Nationals for x-country with SAIT (Southern Alberta Institute of Technology) fall 2007.

What is your career ambition and what are you doing or plan to do to accomplish that goal?
Once I am finished my Petroleum Land Management course this coming spring of 2008, I plan to enroll with an oil company in Calgary for experience. Than I plan to attend the University of Calgary in the drama program in the 2008 winter semester and get more experience in acting.

Describe where you were raised and what your childhood was like?
- I was raised on the Blood Reserve, which is the largest reserve in Canada. I feel very fortunate to have been able to grow up in such beautiful scenery by the Rocky Mountains.
My childhood was a great experience, because I wouldn't be the person I am today without the support of my parents and grandparents who have helped mould my foundation and humbleness and outlook I have on life today.

List any interesting or unusual jobs you may have had?
One job that was kind of unordinary for me was being an Aboriginal Junior Forest Ranger in the summer of 2005. It was a great experience being able to travel and camp out in the Rocky Mountains and learn the importance of our environment, and always being on the look out for bears. Throughout this summer job I was able to get my chainsaw certificate, and bear awareness certificate.

List Any Volunteering you have done?
Kids Help Phone
50 km day run for sobriety within the Treaty 7 tribes
200 km 2 day run for sobriety
Awareness for suicide prevention on the Blood Reserve
Raising funds for Breast Cancer

Where is the most interesting place you have been?
Hawaii. Final year of high school, I got the chance to participate in a basketball tournament in Hawaii with my high school girls basketball team. The trip turned out to be a family trip as well and it was a great 7-day vacation with a wonderful cultural experience too.

What makes you unique and different from the other contestants?
I have made it this far in the competition, because I want to be here and to have an opportunity to be able to make a difference and represent Canada is a dream come true. I want to be able to make a difference in people's lives, especially in the younger generation because they are our future and well I basically want to show them that the sky's the limit. The experience that you get while having the title of Miss Universe Canada is a great opportunity to help people and that is what I value and cherish in life.

What is your philosophy of/ in life?
My philosophy is that "strivers achieve what dreamers believe, don't ever hesitate to take the lead!"

What do you hope to be doing in 10 years?
I plan to finish school and continue my career in the oil and gas industry and than eventually change my career in a direction that I will be able to help others. I plan to get my teaching degree in drama and plan one day to help others express themselves in the art of drama.

Is there anything you would like to tell us about yourself? Something unique that has happened to you? Some interesting thing about you?
Over the past year I have won the Regional Top Native Model and advanced to the National title that I was very fortunate to win. Currently I am the national Top Native Model. With this title so far, I have been honoured and looked upon as a youth role model and have been able to be an inspirational talker, which I find has matured me so much, since that I just graduated from high school a little over a year and a half ago.

I take this whole experience a blessing, because I never knew that I would be able to accomplish this, because I was a very shy insecure person at one time. I thank my parents and grandparents and close family for the support they have given me in order to achieve what I have accomplished so far. I plan on striving for more in order to make a difference and experience a once in a lifetime chance in representing Canada.