Growing up, Stam was a 4-H member and showed dairy cattle at the Jackson County Fair. She graduated from Seymour High School and is currently a senior at the University of Indianapolis studying communications.. She is a member of Immanuel Lutheran Church, Seymour, Indiana, where her mother teaches 5th grade at the Lutheran elementary school.
Stam entered and won her first pageant at the age of 15. After winning the Teen Jackson County title she advanced to the Miss Kentuckiana Pageant. She won the overall Miss Kentuckiana title (a title won by several successful pageant winners) and advanced and won the national pageant and edging out first runner-up, Amber Seyer, who went on to compete in Miss Teen USA and Miss USA. According to Pageant.net, Stam made history as the first Hoosier to win a triple crown in the same pageant system starting at the local, state, and national levels.
She returned to the local level in 2005 and won the title Jackson County Jr. Miss, taking home more than $9,000.00 in college scholarships. Following in the footsteps of one of her predecessors, Deven Waymen, Stam became the second young woman from Jackson County to win the Indiana Jr. Miss title and advance to the last televised America's Jr. Miss Scholarhip Program. Stam finished the competition as 2nd runner-up, securing another $20,000 in college scholarships.
In November 2007 she won the local Miss Duneland title (Michigan City, Indiana). She competed in the Miss Indiana pageant for the first time, in June 2008. At the conclusion of the final competition was crowned Miss Indiana.For her state talent she performed "Art is Calling Me".
Stam went on to represent Indiana in the Miss America 2009 pageant competition.
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