Miss Virginia
The Miss Virginia competition is a scholarship pageant for women, with the titleholder representing Virginia in the Miss America pageant. The competition was founded in 1953 as a scholarship contest for young women, although women had represented Virginia in the Miss America pageant since the 1930s. Three Miss Virginia winners have gone on to be crowned Miss America, including former national titleholder Caressa Cameron.[1]
To compete in the Miss Virginia pageant, a contestant must first win one of many local competitions. Contestants may compete at the local and state level more than once, but having won a state title may only compete in the national Miss America competition one time. The state pageant is traditionally held in Roanoke, Virginia at the Roanoke Civic Center in June or July.[2][3]
During her reign travels over 20,000 miles across the state making appearances to further her personal platform and for the Miss America Organization's national Children's Miracle Network campaign.[3]
Kristi Lauren Glakas, Miss Virginia 2005, is one of only seven women who have competed in the Miss America, Miss Teen USA and Miss USA competitions. She was Miss Virginia Teen USA 1999 and Miss Virginia USA 2005, placing in the top ten at Miss Teen USA 1999 and was a non-finalist at Miss USA 2004.[4] Two other Miss Virginia titleholders later competed in the Miss USA pageant: Jennifer Pitts was Miss Virginia USA 1995 and Shannon DePuy was Miss Florida USA 1995.[4][5]
Results summary
The year in brackets indicates the year of the Miss America competition the award/placement was garnered.
Placements
- Winners: Kylene Barker (1979), Nicole Johnson (1999), Caressa Cameron (2010)
- 1st runners-up: Julianne Smith (1987), Cullen Johnson (1995)
- 2nd runners-up: Anne Lee Ceglis (1954)
- 3rd runners-up: Evangeline Glidwell (1934), Kristi Lauren Glakas (2006), Hannah Kiefer (2008)
- 4th runners-up: Rosa Marie Elliott (1940), Nancy Glisson (1994)
Awards
Preliminary Awards
- Preliminary Talent: Anne Lee Ceglis (1954), Dorcas Campbell (1964), Cherie Davis (1969), Pamela Polk (1977), Crystal Evans (2000), Caressa Cameron (2010)
- Preliminary Swimsuit: Linda Moyer (1972), Julianne Smith (1987), Cullen Johnson (1995), Nancy Redd (2004), Kristi Lauren Glakas (2006)
Non-finalist Awards
- Non-finalist Talent: Rebecca Richardson (1957), Alice Sue Williams (1960), Patricia Gaulding (1963), Carolyn Eddy (1965), Sydney Lewis (1970), Terri Bartlett (1978),Susan Parker (1984), Tami Elliott (1990), Sheri Huffman (1992), Lora Flattum (1993), Michelle Kang (1997), Kelli Quick (1998)
Quality of Life Award
- Finalists: Adrianna Sgarlata (2007), Caitlin Uze (2011)
Other
- Miss Congeniality: Linda Maclin (1967)
- Waterford Crystal Business Scholarship: Cullen Johnson (1995)
- Children's Champion award: Nancy Redd (2004), Mariah Rice (2005)
- Charles and Theresa Brown Scholarship Recipient: Hannah Kiefer (2008)
Winners
| Year | Name | Hometown | Age | Local Title | Miss America Talent | Placement at Miss America | Special scholarships at Miss America | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Elizabeth Crot | Miss Arlington | Classical Vocal | |||||
| 2010 | Caitlin Uze | Arlington | 22 | Miss Greater Richmond | Irish Treble Reel Dance "Riverdance Finale" | Top 10 Semi-finalist | Quality of Life Finalist, Marion A. Crooker Award | |
| 2009 | Chinah Helmandollar*[6] | Hardy | Miss Smith Mountain Lake | Top 10 Finalist at Miss Virginia 2009; Assumed title when Caressa Cameron won the Miss America title | ||||
| Caressa Cameron | Fredericksburg | 21 | Miss Arlington | Vocal "Listen" | Winner at Miss America 2010[1] | Preliminary Talent | 4th runner-up to National Sweetheart 2006 | |
| 2008 | Tara Wheeler | Woodbridge | 24 | Miss Arlington | Vocal "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" | |||
| 2007 | Hannah Kiefer[7] | High Point, North Carolina | 21 | Miss Mountain Empire | Classical Ballet en Pointe "The Chocolate Dance" from The Nutcracker | 3rd runner-up at Miss America 2008 | 2008 Charles and Theresa Brown Scholarship Recipient | Eligible as a student at Hollins University |
| 2006 | Adrianna Sgarlata | Fairfax Station | 24 | Miss Arlington | Classical Vocal "Chi Il Bel Sogno di Doretta" from La rondine | Quality of Life Finalist | ||
| 2005 | Kristi Lauren Glakas[8] | Centreville | 24 | Miss Apple Blossom Festival | Vocal "In His Eyes" from Jekyll & Hyde | 3rd runner-up at Miss America 2006 | Preliminary Swimsuit[9] | Triple Crown winner, previously Miss Virginia USA 2004 and Miss Virginia Teen USA 1999 (top ten at Miss Teen USA 1999) |
| 2004 | Mariah Rice[10] | Mechanicsville | 24 | Miss Greater Richmond | Lyrical Dance "I Am Changing" | Children's Champion award | ||
| 2003 | Nancy Redd | Martinsville | 22 | Miss Martinsville-Henry County | Piano "Malagueña" | Top 10 at Miss America 2004 | Preliminary Swimsuit; Children's Champion award | |
| 2002 | Jennifer Pitts | Arlington | 24 | Miss Apple Blossom Festival | Contemporary Ballet en Pointe "Standing in Motion" by Yanni | Later Miss Virginia USA 2005; Contestant at National Sweetheart 2001 | ||
| 2001 | Meghan Shanley | Virginia Beach | 21 | Miss Hampton Holly Days Festival | Vocal "Big Time" | |||
| 2000 | Jacqueline Cook[11] | Colonial Heights | 24 | Miss Hampton/Newport News | Jazz en Pointe "Jump, Shout, Boogie" | |||
| 1999 | Crystal Evans (Lewis) | Portsmouth | 21 | Miss Lynchburg Festival | Vocal "I Believe in You and Me" | Preliminary Talent | ||
| 1998 | Nita Booth*[12] | Tidewater | Miss Tidewater | Vocal | First African-American titleholder. | |||
| Nicole Johnson | Virginia Beach | 24 | Miss Lynchburg Festival | Vocal "That's Life" | Winner at Miss America 1999 | |||
| 1997 | Kelli Quick | Lynchburg | 20 | Miss Lynchburg Festival | Vocal "I Go To the Rock" from The Preacher's Wife | Non-finalist Talent | ||
| 1996 | Michelle Kang[13] | Fredericksburg | 22 | Miss Apple Blossom Festival | Classical Piano "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2" | Non-finalist Talent | First minority winner[14] | |
| 1995 | Amber Medlin | Virginia Beach | 23 | Miss Virginia Beach | Classical Piano "Polonaise in A flat, Op. 53" | Assumed Ballengee's title[15] | ||
| Andrea Ballengee | Yorktown | Miss Hampton/Newport News | Dance | Won title after placing runner-up for two years. She was initially allowed to keep her title after it was discovered she had embellished her academic record[16] but was stripped of her crown later the same month after further discrepancies were revealed[17]; Miss Virginia Teen USA 1992 (semi-finalist at Miss Teen USA 1992), Mrs. America 2006 (top ten at Mrs. World) won Mrs. America as Mrs. California, married name Andrea Preuss | ||||
| 1994 | Cullen Johnson[18] | Norfolk | 23 | Miss Central Shenandoah Valley | Classical Piano "Sonata Pathetique" | 1st runner-up | Preliminary Swimsuit, Waterford Crystal Business Scholarship | |
| 1993 | Nancy Glisson | Williamsburg | 22 | Miss Lynchburg Festival | Popular Vocal "I Will Always Love You" | 4th runner-up | ||
| 1992 | Lora Flattum | Isle of Wight | 24 | Miss Apple Blossom Festival | Classical Piano "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in C Minor" | Non-finalist Talent | ||
| 1991 | Sheri Huffman | Lynchburg | 23 | Miss Amhearst County | Vocal "If I Can Dream" | Non-finalist Talent | ||
| 1990 | Shannon DePuy | Lynchburg | 19 | Miss Amhearst County | Classical Piano "Revolutionary Etude" | Top 10 Semi-finalist | Later Miss Florida USA 1995 (finalist at Miss USA) | |
| 1989 | Tami Elliott | Newport News | 24 | Miss Portsmouth-Seawall Festival | Gymnastics Dance Routine "The Phantom of the Opera" | Non-finalist Talent | Later Mrs. Virginia | |
| 1988 | April Fleming | Richmond | 23 | Miss Richmond | Popular Vocal "New York State of Mind" | |||
| 1987 | Heidi Lammi | Alexandria | 26 | Miss Northern Virginia | Ballet en Pointe "Grande Tarantelle" | Top 10 Semi-finalist | ||
| 1986 | Julianne Smith | Yorktown | 21 | Miss Williamsburg | Vocal "Golden Rainbow" | 1st runner-up | Preliminary Swimsuit | Toured with the 1987 Gillette Miss America Show Troupe |
| 1985 | Kimberly Johnson | Coeburn | 19 | Miss Lonesome Pine | Vocal & Piano "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" | |||
| 1984 | Susan Parker | Covington | 23 | Miss Alleghany Highlands | Classical Vocal "My Man's Gone Now" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1983 | Lisa Aliff | Roanoke | 23 | Miss Vinton Dogwood Festival | Vocal & Dance "Manhattan" & "Broadway Rhythm" | |||
| 1982 | Beverly Cooke[19] | Richmond | 24 | Miss Portsmouth-Seawall Festival | Vocal Medley "Smile" & "Happy Days Are Here Again" | Mother of Miss Virginia's Outstanding Teen 2006- Brittany Young[20] | ||
| 1981 | Vicky Pulliam | Martinsville | 21 | Miss Martinsville/Henry County | Semi-Classical Vocal "Art Is Calling For Me" from The Enchantress by Victor Herbert | |||
| 1980 | Holly Jereme | Roanoke | 23 | Miss Roanoke Valley | Vocal & Dance "City Lights" | |||
| 1979 | Darlene McIntosh | Chesapeake | 22 | Miss Chesapeake | Classical Piano "Prelude in C sharp minor" | |||
| 1978 | Paige Brown* | Alexandria | Miss Fairfax County | |||||
| Kylene Barker | Galax | 22 | Miss Pulaski County | Gymnastics Routine "Gonna Fly Now" & "Feelin So Good" | Winner | |||
| 1977 | Terri Bartlett | Newport News | 24 | Miss Norfolk | Classical Piano "Rhapsody in C Minor" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1976 | Pamela Polk | Richmond | 22 | Miss Peanut Festival | Classical Vocal "Mi Chiamano Mimi" from La bohème | Top 10 Semi-finalist | Preliminary Talent award | Toured with Miss America USO Troupe |
| 1975 | Joan Grady | Virginia Beach | 21 | Miss Virginia Beach | Classical Vocal "Vissi d'arte" | |||
| 1974 | Stephanie Dowdy | Virginia Beach | 18 | Miss Virginia Beach | Vocal "I've Gotta Be Me" | |||
| 1973 | Elinda Gail Vandeventer | Pulaski | 20 | Miss Pulaski | Classical Vocal "The Telephone Aria" | |||
| 1972 | Dona Marie Pillow | Lynchburg | 22 | Miss Lynchburg | Vocal Medley "Memories" | |||
| 1971 | Linda Moyer | Norfolk | 20 | Miss Norfolk | Vocal & Dance | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | Toured with the Miss America USO Troupe | |
| 1970 | Jeannette Smith | Roanoke | 19 | Miss Roanoke Valley | Classical Piano "Toccata" by Aram Khachaturian | |||
| 1969 | Sydney Lewis | Hampton | 19 | Miss Hampton/Newport News | Original Monologue "Prisoner at the Bar" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1968 | Cherie Davis | Clifton Forge | 20 | Miss Alleghany Highlands | Classical Vocal "Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix" | Top 10 Semi-finalist | Preliminary Talent award | Featured performer on 1969 Miss America telecast |
| 1967 | Barbara Yost | Roanoke | 19 | Miss Roanoke Valley | Piano Solo "Grande valse brillante in E flat major" | |||
| 1966 | Linda Maclin | Roanoke | 18 | Miss Roanoke Valley | Modern Jazz Dance | Miss Congeniality | ||
| 1965 | Jean Inge | Norfolk | 22 | Miss Norfolk | Speech about Politics & Government entitled "Democracy" | |||
| 1964 | Carolyn Eddy | Norfolk | 21 | Miss Norfolk | Dramatic Reading | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1963 | Dorcas Campbell | Fairfield | Miss Rockbridge County | Vocal Medley "Près des remparts de Séville" from Carmen & songs from West Side Story | Top 10 Semi-finalist | Preliminary Talent award | ||
| 1962 | Patricia Gaulding | Richmond | 19 | Miss Richmond | Caricature Sketching & Original Comedy Monologue | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1961 | Charlotte Thomas | Roanoke | 19 | Miss Lynchburg | Piano "Malagueña" | |||
| 1960 | Catherine Birch | Staunton | 19 | Miss Bristol | Classical Ballet | |||
| 1959 | Alice Sue Williams | Richmond | 19 | Miss Williamsburg | Dramatization of Designing & Sewing Fashions | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1958 | Barbara Guthrie | Martinsville | Miss Martinsville | Drama | ||||
| 1957 | Rebecca Lee Edmunds | Roanoke | Miss Roanoke Valley | Dance | ||||
| 1956 | Rebecca Richardson | Martinsville | Miss Martinsville | Art Display & Piano | Non-finalist Talent Award | |||
| 1955 | Betty Sue Mathews | Norfolk | Miss Virginia Beach | |||||
| 1954 | Julie Ann Bruening | Swoope | Miss Staunton-Augusta County | Charcoal Sketch of The Statue of Liberty | ||||
| 1953 | Anne Lee Ceglis | Norfolk | Classical Vocal "Un Bel Di" from Madama Butterfly | 2nd runner-up | Preliminary Talent Award | |||
| 1952 | Edna Long | Richmond | Dance | |||||
| 1951 | Shirley Bryant | Norfolk | Vocal | |||||
| 1950 | Gloria Fenderson | Petersburg | ||||||
| 1949 | Betty Lewis | Norfolk | ||||||
| 1948 | Bobby Joe Wilson | Hillsville | ||||||
| 1947 | Ruth Mears | Cape Charles | Speech | |||||
| 1946 | Bette Cannon | Alexandria | Monologue "The Waltz" by Dorothy Parker | |||||
| 1943 | Dorothy Taylor | Richmond | competed as "Miss Richmond" in Miss America | |||||
| 1942 | Charlotte Smith | Fredericksburg | ||||||
| 1941 | Jacquelyn McWin | Waynesboro | Semi-Finalist | |||||
| 1940 | Virginia Campbell | Charlottesville | ||||||
| 1939 | Rosa Marie Elliott | Suffolk | Vocal "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" | 4th runner-up | ||||
| 1938 | Kathleen Mann | North Arlington | ||||||
| 1937 | Frances L. Sultan | Kecoughtan | Semi-Finalist | |||||
| 1936 | Dolores Taylor | Ocean View | Semi-Finalist | |||||
| Mary Virginia Ash | Phoebus | competed as Miss Virginia Peninsular in the Miss America Pageant | ||||||
| 1933 | Evangeline Glidwell | 3rd runner-up | ||||||
| 1926 | No Miss Virginia | Eleanor V. Reid competed as Miss Norfolk and was a Finalist in the Miss America Pageant. | ||||||
| 1925 | No Miss Virginia | Dorothea Prince competed as Miss Norfolk | ||||||
| 1923 | No Miss Virginia | Phyllis Gates competed as Miss Richmond in the Miss America Pageant |
* Succeeded to the crown after Miss Virginia won Miss America
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