By Ann Craig-Cinnamon
23 year old Audra Casterline of Fishers was crowned Miss Indiana 2014 on June 22 at the Zionsville High School Performing Arts Center. Casterline’s local title was Miss Hoosier Heartland. She is a vocalist and performed “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” during the competition. She is the first Fishers resident to win the Miss Indiana title.
Casterline is a graduate of Fishers High School and Anderson University and plans to attend graduate school to become a physicians’ assistant.
This was the fourth year that she competed in the Miss Indiana pageant and she says she is thrilled by the win.
“I was just overwhelmed. It’s been a dream of mine since I was a little girl to become Miss Indiana and I’m just thrilled to have the opportunity to serve the people of the state that I love for the next year. I was just elated,” she said.
A record-setting 34 young women between the ages of 17 and 24, from all over Indiana, competed for the title in three preliminary nights of competition in talent, lifestyle and fitness in swimwear, evening wear and onstage question, and all had a ten-minute private interview with judges.
Casterline will serve as Miss Indiana for the next year and will represent Indiana at the Miss America Competition, in Atlantic City, N.J., on Sept. 14 which will be broadcasted on ABC.
