Scott Swanson
Of The New Era
Sportsman’s Holiday Princess Sam Pierce says she’s watched the Sportsman’s Holiday courts for the last four years and pictured herself in the tiara.
“I’ve always waited for the day to come when I could be a princess myself,” she said.
Now she has that chance.
Sam, 18, is one of six young women who are candidates to be chosen Sportsman’s Holiday queen for the festival, to be held July 7-9. The queen will be crowned July 6.
Sam, who just graduated from Sweet Home High School, is the daughter of Dave and Beth Lambert. She has two older brothers, Eric and Brady. During high school she played volleyball and was on the dance team. She also was on Class Board and participated in cross-age tutoring.
She plans to earn an associate’s degree in business at Linn-Benton Community College, after which she wants to own a business.
Sam said she likes Sweet Home because “everyone is like one big family.
“Most everybody knows everybody and anywhere you go you feel at home,” she said. “You hardly ever go somewhere where you don’t know someone else and most people are very friendly too.”
Sam says she can make a difference in the community by being a role model for young people, by getting people excited to take care of our town and by being a proud representative who “will make others proud to be from Sweet Home.
“I will make a good representative because I know what it takes to be committed to something,” she said. “This has been a dream of mine for a long time and I would never do anything to jeopardize that.
“I love my little town and would love to represent it.”