Miss Nevada USA
The Miss Nevada USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Nevada in the Miss USA pageant.
While Nevada did well in the early years of the Miss USA pageant, they only placed once from 1987 to 2000. This streak was broken by Gina Giacinto's finalist placing in Miss USA 2001.
Many Miss Nevada USA titleholders previously competed in the Miss Teen USA and Miss America pageants. Six titleholders previously held the Miss Nevada Teen USA title and three held the Miss Nevada title.
Results summary
Placements
- First runner-up: Mary O'Neal Contino (1977)
- Second runner-up: Joan Adams (1957), Karen Weller (1961), Kathy Landry (1968), Sheri Schruhl (1970)
- Third runner-up: Gina Giacinto (2001)
- Fourth runners-up: Janet Hadland (1962), Helen Salas (2007)
- Top 10: Earlene Whitt (1953), Joy Blaine (1959), Kathee Francis (1963), Denyse Turner (1965), Jacqueline Moore (1967), Karen Esslinger (1969), Linda Dryden (1974), Christa Lane Daniel (1983), Tammy Perkins (1987)
- Top 15: Lauren Scyphers (2006)
Awards
- Miss Congeniality: Alesia Prentiss (1992)
- Best State Costume: Lagracella Omran (1988)
Winners
| Year | Name | Hometown | Age1 | Placement | Special awards | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Julianna Erdesz | Reno | 25 | Previously Miss Nevada 2008 | ||
| 2009 | Georgina Vaughan | Las Vegas | 20 | Previously Miss Nevada Teen USA 2006. | ||
| 2008 | Veronica Grabowski | Henderson | 23 | Was in a relationship with Criss Angel in 2008.[1] | ||
| 2007 | Helen Salas | Las Vegas | 21 | 4th runner-up | Previously Miss Nevada Teen USA 2004, 2nd runner up at Miss Teen USA 2004 | |
| Katie Rees | St. Petersburg | 22 | Stripped of her title due to inappropriate photographs.[2][3] | |||
| 2006 | Lauren Scyphers[4] | Gardnerville | 20 | Semi-finalist | ||
| 2005 | Shivonn Geeb[5] | 25 | ||||
| Sloan Bailey | Resigned in January 2005 for personal reasons.[5] | |||||
| 2004 | Victoria Franklin | Las Vegas | 23 | Previously Miss Nevada Teen USA 1998, 2nd runner up in Miss Teen USA 1998 | ||
| 2003 | Ashley Huff | Henderson | 22 | Previously Miss Nevada 2001 | ||
| 2002 | Jenny Valdez[6] | |||||
| 2001 | Gina Giacinto | 26 | 3rd Runner-Up | Previously Miss Nevada 1999 | ||
| 2000 | Alicia Carnes[7] | Previously Miss Nevada Teen USA 1995 | ||||
| 1999 | Shaynee Smith[8] | 23 | ||||
| 1998 | Tammie Rankin | Previously Miss Nevada Teen USA 1993 | ||||
| 1997 | Ninya Perna[9] | Green Valley | 23 | |||
| 1996 | Alisa Castillo | 23 | ||||
| 1995 | Brook Hammond | Las Vegas | Previously Miss Nevada Teen USA 1991 | |||
| 1994 | Angela Lambert | |||||
| 1993 | Alexis Oliver | |||||
| 1992 | Alesia Prentiss | Miss Congeniality | ||||
| 1991 | Jodi Jensen | |||||
| 1990 | Michele Yegge | |||||
| 1989 | Janu Tornell | Contestant on Survivor: Palau[10] | ||||
| 1988 | Lagracella Omran | Best State Costume[11] | ||||
| 1987 | Tammy Perkins | Las Vegas | 21 | Semi-finalist | ||
| 1986 | LeAnna Grant | Las Vegas | Previously Miss Nevada 1984 | |||
| 1985 | Alicia (Berger) Jacobs[12] | Las Vegas | Host of Access Hollywood,[13] judge of Miss USA 2009 pageant[14] | |||
| 1984 | Donna Lee McNeil | Las Vegas | ||||
| 1983 | Christa Lane Daniel | Las Vegas | Semi-finalist | |||
| 1982 | Andrea Pennington | Las Vegas | ||||
| 1981 | Mary Lebsock | Las Vegas | ||||
| 1980 | Kimberlee Guider | Las Vegas | ||||
| 1979 | Aleasha Magleby | Las Vegas | ||||
| 1978 | Dawn Jameson | |||||
| 1977 | Mary O'Neal Contino | Las Vegas | 1st runner-up | Played lead role in Australian television series Chuck Finn[15] | ||
| 1976 | Janice Carrell | |||||
| 1975 | Madonna Allison | Las Vegas | ||||
| 1974 | Linda Dryden | Semi-finalist | ||||
| 1973 | Laura Fritz | |||||
| 1972 | Tracey Lynn Whitney | |||||
| 1971 | Anita Laurie | |||||
| 1970 | Sheri Schruhl | Las Vegas | Second runner-up | |||
| 1969 | Karen Esslinger | Semi-finalist | ||||
| 1968 | Kathy Landry | Second runner-up | ||||
| 1967 | Jacqueline Moore | Semi-finalist | ||||
| 1966 | Mary Martin | |||||
| 1965 | Denyse Turner | Semi-finalist | ||||
| Bunny Baxter | Resigned | |||||
| 1964 | Pamela Diane Morris | |||||
| 1963 | Kathee Francis | Semi-finalist | ||||
| 1962 | Janet Hadland | Fourth runner-up | ||||
| 1961 | Karen Weller | Second runner-up | ||||
| 1960 | Did Not Compete | |||||
| 1959 | Joy Blaine | Semi-finalist | ||||
| 1958 | Terry Lee Jeffers | |||||
| 1957 | Joan Adams | Second runner-up | ||||
| 1956 | Marley Sanderson | |||||
| 1955 | Did Not Compete | |||||
| 1954 | Mary Jane Arnold | |||||
| 1953 | Earlene Whitt | Semi-finalist | ||||
| 1952 | Barbara Jean Clark |
1 Age at the time of the Miss USA pageant
References
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- ^ Kern, Kirk (1999-01-30). "Pageant winner in finals". Las Vegas Review-Journal.
- ^ Willert, Tim (1996-10-16). "Perna's plans for pageant lofty". Las Vegas Review-Journal.
- ^ "Reality check". Newsday. 2005-04-25.
- ^ "Work Clothes Win". The Victoria Advocate. 1988-02-23.
- ^ "1992 Miss Nevada Teen USA Executive Directors". Miss Nevada USA pageant. Retrieved 2010-03-06.
- ^ "Alicia Jacobs". My News Three. Retrieved 2010-03-06.
- ^ "Miss USA judge yanks essay due to threats". UPI. 2009-04-29.
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