Lilac Queens: Casey Carlson

Year crowned: 1999

High school: Ferris

Catching up: Casey Carlson is a third grade teacher in Gilbert (Ariz.) School District outside Phoenix. She is a 2003 graduate of Washington State University.
During several summers, she worked as a camp counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Brussells, Belgium and at a U.S. Navy base in Sicily.