Cruz, who's 17, says she was scared at first to enter the contest because she wasn't sure how people would react. At the last minute, she scratched out "boy" and wrote in "girl" on the ballot. Supporters followed suit.
She and Scott, who's 18, got four times the number of votes as the other nominees.
The couple started dating when they were sophomores.
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