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29.04.2024
36 Minuten
It’s fitness time, baby! Through hours of rehearsals with very
few breaks, some girls struggle to keep up with the comically
difficult fitness routine. It raises the question, why would
accomplished teens—like those from New Mexico, Arizona and...
29.04.2024
44 Minuten
At the start of the competition, 50 teenage girls, one from each
state, gather in Mobile, Alabama, to embark on two of the most
intense weeks of their lives. Everybody wants the same thing: to
walk away with a $40,000 cash prize and the title o...
04.04.2024
3 Minuten
Over six episodes, The Competition takes you behind the scenes of
one of America’s most lucrative scholarship programs for high
school senior girls. We follow seven girls as they experience the
highs and lows of competing against the best and b...
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Every summer for the past seven decades, 50 high school
seniors—one from every state—descend on Mobile, Alabama to take
part in one of the country’s most lucrative scholarship
competitions for teen girls.
The Competition takes you behind the scenes of the Distinguished
Young Women (DYW) program, and follows seven girls as they
experience the highs and lows of competing for two weeks, away
from home and under the most high-stress circumstances. Some
girls enter for the money, some for prestige. All of them are
used to being the best and the brightest. But only one will walk
away with the top prize.
Host Shima Oliaee (Dolly Parton’s America, Pink Card) was
Nevada’s contestant in 2001. More than 20 years later, she
returns to Alabama as a judge. What can two weeks with 50 of the
country’s most ambitious teens tell us about girlhood in America?
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