Miss Wisconsin USA
| Formation | 1952 |
|---|---|
| Type | Beauty pageant |
| Headquarters | Milwaukee |
| Location | |
Membership | Miss USA |
Official language | English |
Key people | Denise Wallace Craig Heitkamp |
| Website | Official website |
The Miss Wisconsin USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Wisconsin in the Miss USA pageant. Since 2007, the state pageant has been directed by Future Productions of Savage, Minnesota.[1]
Wisconsin is one of the least successful states in the Miss USA system with only seven placements in over sixty years as the state has yet to win the Miss USA title. The state's highest placing was Mary Cook earning 2nd runner-up in 1974, and they had no placements from 1979 until 2007, when Caitlin Morrall made the top fifteen. In 2005, Melissa Ann Young won the Miss Congeniality award. Elyzabeth Lee Pham won Miss Photogenic in 1999 and Kate Redeker at Miss USA 2016.
Gabriella Deyi of Madison was crowned Miss Wisconsin USA 2020 on September 8, 2019 at Fond du Lac High School Performing Arts Center in Fond du Lac. She will represent Wisconsin for the title of Miss USA 2020 on the summer of 2020.
Gallery of titleholders
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Melissa Ann Young, Miss Wisconsin USA 2005 -
Anna Piscitello, Miss Wisconsin USA 2006 -
Caitlin Morrall, Miss Wisconsin USA 2007 -
Bishara Dorre, Miss Wisconsin USA 2014 and Miss Wisconsin Teen USA 2006
Results summary
Placements
- 2nd runner-up: Mary Lynn Cook (1974)
- 3rd runner-up: Jodi Bonham (1967)
- Top 10/12: Kathryn Wituschek (1979), Bishara Dorre (2014)
- Top 15/20: Rita Delores Younger (1954), Jeanne Boulay (1955), Caitlin Morrall (2007)
Wisconsin holds a record of 7 placements at Miss USA.
Awards
- Miss Photogenic: Elyzabeth Lee Pham (1999), Kate Redeker (2016)
- Miss Congeniality: Melissa Ann Young (2005)
- Best State Costume: Diane Modrow (1973)
Winners
- Color key
- Declared as Winner
- Ended as runner-up
- Ended as one of the finalists or semifinalists
| Year | Name | Hometown | Age1 | Placement at Miss USA | Special awards at Miss USA | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | ||
| 2020 | Gabriella Deyi | Madison | 27 | TBD | TBD | |
| 2019 | Danika Tramburg | Richfield | 22 | Previously Miss Wisconsin United States 2017 | ||
| 2018 | Regina Gray | Milwaukee | 27 | Later Miss Supranational USA 2019 and 7th at Miss Supranational 2019[2] | ||
| 2017 | Skylar Witte[3] | Schofield | 19 | Currently an event coordinator for Future Productions | ||
| 2016 | Kate Redeker | Sheboygan | 19 | Miss Photogenic | Previously Miss Wisconsin Teen USA 2013 and top 16 at Miss Teen USA 2013 | |
| 2015 | Haley Laundrie | Lake Mills | 21 | |||
| 2014 | Bishara Dorre[4] | Milwaukee | 24 | Top 10 |
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| 2013 | Chrissy Zamora | Greenfield | 25 | |||
| 2012 | Emily Guerin | Monroe | 23 | |||
| 2011 | Jordan Morkin[8] | Green Bay | 21 | Competed at Miss USA | ||
| Shaletta Porterfield | Madison/West Bloomfield, MI | 26 | N/A | Resigned after being charged with three counts of identity theft.[9] | ||
| 2010 | Courtney Lopez[10] | Franksville | 20 | Previously Miss Wisconsin Teen USA 2008; 2013 Houston Texans Cheerleader | ||
| 2009 | Alexandra Wehrley | Pewaukee | 21 | Host of Oklahoma Live on KSBI, co-host of the Miss USA 2015 pageant, and host of the Miss USA 2017 preliminary competition. | ||
| 2008 | Michelyn Butler | Madison | 25 | Contestant at National Sweetheart 2007 | ||
| 2007 | Caitlin Morrall | Burlington | 23 | Top 15 | Contestant at National Sweetheart 2003 | |
| 2006 | Anna Piscitello | Hartland | 20 | |||
| 2005 | Melissa Ann Young | Menasha | 25 | Miss Congeniality | ||
| 2004 | Jenna Schultz | Pewaukee | 20 | |||
| 2003 | Judith Eckerle | Milwaukee | 25 | |||
| 2002 | Cortney Owen | Muskego | 18 | |||
| 2001 | Kari Jo Dodge | Star Prairie | 19 | |||
| 2000 | Samantha Jo Picha | Verona | 25 | |||
| 1999 | Elyzabeth Pham | Madison | 26 | Miss Photogenic | ||
| 1998 | Michelle Altman | Green Bay | 21 | |||
| 1997 | Tara Johnson | Onalaska | 21 | |||
| 1996 | Mary Stoker[11] | Madison/West Salem | 26 | First African-American titleholder.[11] | ||
| 1995 | Tanae Geisler | Hudson | 19 | Previously Miss Wisconsin Teen USA 1993 | ||
| 1994 | Gina Desmond | Milwaukee | 25 | |||
| 1993 | Heather Hanson | Madison/Cascade | 20 | |||
| 1992 | Kelly Bright | Greenfield | 25 | |||
| 1991 | Kimberly Totdahl[12] | Racine | 24 | Previously Miss Wisconsin 1989 | ||
| 1990 | Lynn Mulcahy | Madison | 20 | |||
| 1989 | Sherri Baxter | Madison/Plymouth, Minn. | 19 | |||
| 1988 | Mary Anderson[13] | St Francis | 22 | Previously Miss Wisconsin 1985.[13] | ||
| 1987 | Regina Part | Stevens Point | 19 | |||
| 1986 | Bonnie Bonnicksen | Madison | 23 | |||
| 1985 | Deborah Strauss[14] | Thiensville | 22 | |||
| 1984 | Tamara Su Schoof | Milwaukee | 24 | |||
| 1983 | Susan Peters | Menomonee Falls | 20 | |||
| 1982 | Cheryl Maslowski | Milwaukee | 21 | |||
| 1981 | Dawn Spreeman | Kaukauna | 18 | |||
| 1980 | Susan McGaffigan | Pewaukee | 21 | |||
| 1979 | Kathryn Wituschek | Milwaukee | 24 | Semi-finalist | ||
| 1978 | Cynthia Paulson | Milwaukee | 24 | |||
| 1977 | Vicki Payne | Milwaukee | 24 | |||
| 1976 | Susan Femrite | Madison | 19 | |||
| 1975 | Rita Pedder | Madison | 22 | |||
| 1974 | Mary Cook | Wind Lake | 23 | 2nd runner-up | ||
| 1973 | Diane Modrow | Green Bay | 20 | Best State Costume (Tied with Miss Texas USA) | ||
| 1972 | Suzan Nass | Menomonie | 19 | |||
| 1971 | Pamela Martin | Milwaukee | 25 | |||
| 1970 | Joann Soller | Eau Claire | 20 | |||
| 1969 | Christine Sachen | Racine | 21 | |||
| 1968 | Janice Kopps | Milwaukee | 21 | |||
| 1967 | Jodi Bonham | Milwaukee | 23 | 3rd runner-up | ||
| 1966 | Janet Driscoll | Milwaukee | 22 | |||
| 1965 | Judith Ann Achtor | Milwaukee | 22 | Died on January 18, 2016 in Milwaukee at age 70. | ||
| 1964 | Carolyne Limquite | Milwaukee | 26 | |||
| 1963 | Lynn Korchunoff | Milwaukee | 18 | |||
| 1962 | Sherri Mathson | Milwaukee | 20 | |||
| 1961 | Karen Reisweber | Milwaukee | 21 | |||
| 1960 | Sharyn Chalik | Milwaukee | 22 | |||
| 1959 | Charlene Krause | Milwaukee | 24 | |||
| 1958 | Did Not Compete | |||||
| 1957 | Natalie Lueck | Milwaukee | 25 | |||
| 1956 | Priscilla Perkins | Milwaukee | 23 | |||
| 1955 | Jeanne Marianne Boulay | Fond du Lac | 19 | Semi-finalist | ||
| 1954 | Rita Delores Younger | Baraboo | 21 | Semi-finalist | ||
| 1953 | Jacque Kimmel | Milwaukee | 24 | |||
| 1952 | Jeannie Eleanor Huston | Milwaukee | 20 | Withdrew | ||
1 Age at the time of the Miss USA pageant
References
- ^ "Future Productions, LLC State Directors". Retrieved 8 February 2017.
- ^ Miss Supranational Facebook
- ^ Miels, Emily (13 September 2016). "Crowning achievement: Altoona native Skylar Witte wins Miss Wisconsin USA title". Leader-Telegram. Retrieved 21 March 2017.
- ^ Kabelowsky, Steve (June 9, 2014). "Fox Sports' Bishara Dorre makes Miss USA Top 10". On Milwaukee.
- ^ "Pageant Winners Crowned". Madison.com. 2005-10-18.
- ^ "Milwaukee's Dorre crowned Miss Wisconsin Outstanding Teen". The Northwestern. 2007-06-25.
- ^ Reilly, Tiffany (January 6, 2010). "Meet The 09-10 National American Miss Bishara Dorre !!!". NAM 365 Pageants Blog.
- ^ "Miss Wisconsin USA Jordan Marie Morkin". Miss Universe.
- ^ "Miss Wisconsin USA's dreams of becoming Miss USA shattered as she's charged with ID theft". Daily Mail. 11 May 2011.
- ^ "New Miss Wisconsin Crowned". WSAW. 28 September 2009.
- ^ a b "Miss Wisconsin on a Mission". The Telegraph-Herald. 25 November 1995.
- ^ "Miss Wisconsin USA crowned". The Milwaukee Sentinel. 15 January 1991.
- ^ a b "Miss Wisconsin USA was Miss Wisconsin America". The Telegraph-Herald. 2 November 1987.
- ^ "Special Dream: Pageant winner wants to be kept busy". The Milwaukee Journal. 9 January 1985.