Miss Springville/Mapleton 2022Makencie Cline

Miss Springville/Mapleton 2022 Makencie Cline moved to Springville from Aurora, Colorado, in 2014 with her family. She is the daughter of Mitchell and Concepcion Cline and is the oldest of four children. Together, they enjoy bowling, hiking to the hot springs, snowboarding and, occasionally skydiving!

Part of her job as Miss Springville/Mapleton is to serve and connect with her community. It has been her goal this year to make the people in Springville and Mapleton feel seen, valued and celebrated for who they are.

Cline believes a community’s strength comes from its members’ capacity to work together toward the common goal of investing in our youth.

It is more vital than ever to embrace the things that bring us together and encourage a more positive outlook toward our future.

Her social impact initiative is called “Mind Your Mindset: Advocating Growth Mindsets, Inclusion and Resilience.” Through it, she teaches students how to strengthen their growth mindset so they can reach their full potential and create their purpose in life.

Cline has loved spreading her social impact initiative through classroom visits, working as an ambassador for the Big Brothers Big Sisters of America mentor program and speaking at events.

Cline attended Springville High School, where she took honors classes, and then graduated from Merit College Preparatory Academy in 2018, making the top three in her class.

She turned her focus to college at Utah Valley University. There, she went on to study political science while also minoring in both constitutional studies and Spanish. She graduated from UVU summa cum laude.

Cline also completed three internships. One was at the Utah State Capitol where she worked with the House majority leader. She also worked as a Congressional intern for a semester in Washington, D.C., and spent her senior year at UVU working as a presidential intern.

One of her favorite college memories was having the opportunity to study abroad at the University of Oxford in England, where she engaged in discussions about our American Constitutional heritage (Federalist/Anti-Federalist papers). She made lifelong friends through this program.

During the most recent Republican caucus meeting, Cline ran for and was elected as precinct chair of her Republican precinct. She went on to vote in the state convention in the spring of 2021.

Currently, she works for a real estate investing firm and hopes to have multiple businesses one day.

Cline is looking forward to representing Springville and Mapleton at the Miss Utah competition in June. She will be playing the piano as her talent. If you want to follow Cline’s journey to get to Miss America, you can follow her Instagram @missspringvillemapleton.ut and @makenciecline.