Tia Jean Crist, 17, Logan Elm High School senior - Tia is the daughter of Valerie and Tony Crist of Circleville.

Tia is a Varsity Cheerleader for football and basketball, a member of the National Honor Society, National Art Honor Society, Competition Cheerleading Team, Student Union, Key Club, Varsity Club, Prom Committee, Yearbook Staff, Renaissance, and Varsity Track team. She is also a Class officer, was junior Homecoming Attendant and is an honor roll student. Tia is an active member of Trinity Lutheran Church and has participated in two Mission Trips, one to Pine Ridge, SD and one to Miami, FL. She is employed by Ponderosa Steak House.

Her plans after high school are attend Ohio University and major in Physical Therapy and minor in Nutrition.

If Tia could invite a guest to the Pumpkin Show, she would invite past Circleville Mayor, George Haswell, who originally came up with the concept of Pumpkin Show. She could only imagine his amazement in seeing how his seemingly small idea has evolved over the past 100 years.

It is hard for her to choose a favorite or first memory of Pumpkin Show. She has never missed a Pumpkin Show in 17 years. She remembers her Nana taking her and her cousins, Nathan and Tyler, uptown to walk around on Sunday afternoon before it started. They were able to see things up close and scope out plans for the upcoming week. Tia still feels excitement heading to church on Sunday morning, seeing all the streets blocked off for "The Greatest Free Show on Earth."