Music Major Sabrina Ponte to Compete for Miss Massachusetts Title
02/10/2015
By David Perry
Sabrina Ponte, a freshman Music Business major, will represent Boston in the Miss Massachusetts 2015 Pageant in June.
Ponte, 19, captured the title of Miss Boston at the Miss Boston/Miss Cambridge Pageant Sunday, Feb. 8, in Boston.
“I won!” the North Reading resident exclaimed in a text shortly after landing the crown. With the win comes a $1,500 academic scholarship, a scholarship and prize package worth more than $10,000 and an opportunity to promote a cause important to the winner.
Not that she isn’t busy enough.
After transferring to UMass Lowell from Hofstra University after the fall semester (“the business program here offers so much more,” she says), Ponte is enrolled in nine classes, for 17 credits. She is currently working on an opera production at the university, and sang the National Anthem before the Feb. 6 UMass Lowell/Boston University hockey contest. She also sang the anthem prior to the Harvard game in November.
For the talent portion of the Miss Boston competition, Ponte sang classical Italian opera.
Her platform is Project Paws: Helping Hands for Needy Paws, an outgrowth of her love of animals.
“I want to be able to make real for people how thousands of dogs are euthanized each year, when they could be adopted.”
She looks forward to the music business offerings at UMass Lowell.
“The internships available here are amazing and for me, someone who knows what they want to be doing, it is the perfect place.”