Miss Southlake: Elise Martinez

Title: Southlake

Name: Elise Martinez

Hometown: Arlington

Age: 21

Talent: Lyrical Dance - "I Surrender"

Platorm Topic: ONE VOICE: Stand Up, Speak Out, Spread the Word about Child Abuse

Sponsor: Miss Southlake Scholarship Organization

Executive Director: Heather Edwards Bruce & Paul Macias

Hobbies: Dancing; Shopping; Hanging out with family and friends; Water sports

Most unexpected moments: Just recently, my Director told me about a casting company that was seeking "highly skilled professional dancers who excel at Fosse-esque style dancing" for a Texas Lottery commercial.  Ideally, they also wanted to find some Hispanic dancers who could speak & sing in Spanish as well.  Luckily, you did not have to be represented by an agent to audition. So, I took a chance and auditioned among hundreds of amazing dancers.  To my surprise I received a call back! And then, my most unexpected moment was not only being selected for the commercial, but being cast as a PRINCIPAL dancer for both the English and Spanish versions!! I must say it is pretty exciting to see myself on an actual TV commercial!

Biggest accomplishment: I have a very rare type of blood, O Negative. Recently, while I was giving a donation, I was told that my blood from a previous donation had saved the life of a child at Cook Children's Hospital. The sense of accomplishment I felt was very overwhelming.