Miss Nebraska
The Miss Nebraska competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Nebraska in the Miss America pageant.
Winners
| Year | Name | Hometown | Age | Local Title | Miss America Talent | Placement at Miss America | Special scholarships at Miss America | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Alyssa Howell | Omaha | 20 | Miss Douglas County | Piano "Northern Lights" | Top 12 | ||
| 2014 | Megan Swanson | Omaha | 20 | Miss Douglas County | Vocal "You Raise Me Up" | |||
| 2013 | Jacee Pilkington | Minatare | 21 | Miss Western Nebraska | Vocal "How Great Thou Art" | Miss Nebraska's Outstanding Teen 2009 | ||
| 2012 | Mariah Cook | Chadron | 23 | Miss State Fair | Piano "Malagueña" | |||
| 2011 | Kayla Batt[1] | Alliance | 21 | Miss Omaha | Vocal "Love You I Do" | Miss Congeniality, Non-Finalist Talent Award | Miss Nebraska's Outstanding Teen 2007, Top 10 at National Sweetheart 2010 | |
| 2010 | Nicky Haverland[2] | 24 | Miss Douglas County | 3rd runner-up at Miss Nebraska 2010, Assumed title when Teresa Scanlan won the Miss America title | ||||
| Teresa Scanlan | Gering | 17 | Miss Southeast | Piano "White Water Chopped Sticks" by Calvin Jones | Winner | Preliminary Talent Award | At 17, she is the youngest Miss Nebraska ever crowned.
Later Miss Nebraska World 2015, 1st runner up at Miss World America 2015 | |
| 2009 | Brittany Jeffers | Ogallala | 23 | Miss Omaha | Dance "So Much Better" from Legally Blonde | Top 10 | Top 10 at National Sweetheart 2007 | |
| 2008 | Gretchen Bergquist | Oxford | 22 | Miss Panhandle | Vocal "Feeling Good" | |||
| 2007 | Ashley Bauer | Scottsbluff | 22 | Miss Douglas County | Vocal "This Is My Life" | Contestant at National Sweetheart 2006 | ||
| 2006 | Molly McGrath | Omaha | 23 | Miss Sarpy County | Jazz Dance "She Bangs" | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | Nebraska's Junior Miss 2001 | |
| 2005 | Kelly Keiser | Gothenburg | 21 | Miss Lincoln | Piano "Cumana" | Contestant at National Sweetheart 2004 | ||
| 2004 | Brook Matthews | Blair | 24 | Miss Omaha | Vocal "Shine It On" | Contestant at National Sweetheart 2003 | ||
| 2003 | Jane Noseworthy | Bellevue | 24 | Miss Omaha | Classical Vocal "Art Is Calling For Me" from The Enchantress | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 2002 | Krista Knicely | Omaha | 23 | Miss Douglas County | Jazz Dance "I'm a Woman" | |||
| 2001 | Christina Foehlinger | Ralston | 21 | Miss Tri-Cities | Baton Twirling "Theme from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves" | Top 20 | Sister of Miss Nebraska's Outstanding Teen 2008 Rachel Foehlinger | |
| 2000 | Jill Pennington | Omaha | 23 | Miss Great Plains | Vocal "If I Loved You" | Non-finalist Interview Award | ||
| 1999 | Becky Smith | Omaha | 20 | Miss Omaha | Ballet en Pointe "Kiss of the Spider Woman" | |||
| 1998 | Jenny Lemmerman | West Point | 20 | Miss Great Plains | Vocal "I'm a Woman" | |||
| 1997 | Kendra Quandt | Davenport | 23 | Miss Western Nebraska | Classical Piano "Prelude in C sharp minor" | Non-finalist Talent Award, Quality of Life 1st runner-up | ||
| 1996 | Rachel White | Columbus | 20 | Miss Great Plains | Vocal "Via Dolorosa" | |||
| 1995 | Myra Katherine Hale | Lincoln | 23 | Miss Douglas County | Classical Piano | Non-finalist Talent Award, Quality of Life 2nd runner-up | ||
| 1994 | Jennifer Love | North Platte | 21 | Miss High Plains | Classical Vocal "Romany Life" from The Fortune Teller | |||
| 1993 | Mary Lynn Schnitzler | Battle Creek | 23 | Miss Norfolk Area | Vocal "Someone Like You" from Jekyll & Hyde | |||
| 1992 | Natalie Kuijvenhoven | Lincoln | 21 | Miss Great Plains | Vocal "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" | |||
| 1991 | Vicki Linn Train | North Platte | 24 | Miss Great Plains | Piano Solo "Prelude" from Pour le Piano | Non-finalist Talent Award, Quality of Life Finalist | ||
| 1990 | Michelle Ebadi | Omaha | 23 | Miss Western Nebraska | Tap Dance "Sing, Sing, Sing" & "Puttin' on the Ritz" | |||
| 1989 | Kristi Hilliard | Ogallala | 24 | Miss Great Plains | Vocal "Golden Rainbow[disambiguation needed]" | |||
| 1988 | Jodi Miller | Omaha | 20 | Miss Omaha | Acrobatic Jazz Dance | Nebraska's Junior Miss 1986 | ||
| 1987 | Mindee Zimmerman | Norfolk | 23 | Miss Kearney Area | Vocal "People" | |||
| 1986 | Donna Schieffer | Columbus | 19 | Miss Columbus Area | Mystical Modern Dance | |||
| 1985 | Julie Meusburger | Lincoln | 22 | Miss River City | Flute Solo "Carmen Fantasy" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1984 | Allison Boyd | Nebraska City | 21 | Miss University of Nebraska | Acrobatic Dance | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1983 | Kristin Lowenberg | Kearney | 20 | Miss Kearney Area | Jazz Dance "What a Feeling" | Top 10 | ||
| 1982 | Sandra Haschke | Humphrey | 20 | Miss Lincoln Area | Popular Vocal "All I Ever Need Is You" | |||
| 1981 | Jill Pershing | Lincoln | 21 | Miss Lincoln | Ballet en Pointe "Rhapsody in Blue" | |||
| 1980 | Paula Louise Mitchell | Norfolk | 20 | Miss University of Nebraska | Piano "Khachaturian's Toccata" | Non-finalist Talent Award | Mother of Miss Nebraska Teen USA 2015 Paige Pflueger | |
| 1979 | Kathryn Ann Saathoff | Fremont | 21 | Miss Midland Lutheran College | Vocal "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" | |||
| 1978 | Guylyn Remmenga | Elwood | 21 | Miss University of Nebraska-Lincoln | Piano Solo "Toccata" & "Nocturne" | Top 10 | Preliminary Talent Award (tie) | National Sweetheart 1976 |
| 1977 | Linda Kay Hallstrom | Omaha | 18 | Miss Eastern Nebraska Area | Jazz Dance "Liza Live at the Winter Garden" | Non-finalist Talent Award | Toured with Miss America USO Troupe | |
| 1976 | Marion Catherine Watson | Omaha | 22 | Miss Lancaster County | Vocal "Over the Rainbow" | |||
| 1975 | Janet Kay Goode | Omaha | 19 | Miss Omaha | Dramatic Skit "Why?" | |||
| 1974 | Sharon Sue Pelc | Johnstown | 22 | Miss Ord | Ventriloquism & Singing "Those Were the Days" | |||
| 1973 | Sandy Cramer | Omaha | 18 | Miss Omaha | Acrobatic Jazz Dance "I'm an Ordinary Man" | |||
| 1972 | Jeanine Giller | Omaha | 22 | Miss Omaha | Jazz Dance "Bitter End" | |||
| 1971 | Sally Lou Warner | Bushnell | 19 | Miss Kimball | Vocal "Big Spender" | |||
| 1970 | Debra May Sullivan | Omaha | 19 | Miss Omaha | Acrobatic Dance "Fly Me to the Moon" | |||
| 1969 | Jane Deliese Briggeman | Seward | 21 | Miss York | Musical Interpretation "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" & "Fantaisie-Impromptu" | Miss Congeniality | ||
| 1968 | Diane Boldt | Omaha | 19 | Miss Kearney | Character Dance "Charlie Chaplin" | |||
| 1967 | Terry Lee Schmidt | Lincoln | 18 | Miss University of Nebraska | Drawing & Reading "What Is a Girl?" by Alan Beck | |||
| 1966 | Patricia Lee Van Horne | Lincoln | 19 | Miss Lincoln | Popular Vocal "Misty" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1965 | Karen Hansmeire | Ogallala | 20 | Miss Ogallala | Semi-classical Vocal "Love Is Where You Find It" | |||
| 1964 | Sandra Lee Rice | Cozad | 20 | Miss Lexington | Dramatic Reading "After the Fall" | |||
| 1963 | Donna Marie Black | Broken Bow | Miss Grand Island | Classical Vocal "Una Voce Poco Fa" from The Barber of Seville | Featured Performer on the Miss America 1964 telecast | |||
| 1962 | Mary Lee Jepsen | Papillion | 18 | Miss Papillion | Fire Baton Twirling "Ritual Fire Dance" | Top 10 | Preliminary Talent Award (tie) | Featured performer on the Miss America 1963 telecast |
| 1961 | Nancy Lee Foreman | Albion | 20 | Miss Albion | Dramatic Reading "Such Is Your Heritage" | |||
| 1960 | Cheryl Ann Jaeke | Shelton | 18 | Miss Grand Island | Vocal | |||
| 1959 | Joan Arolyn Sipes | Columbus | 19 | Piano "Liszt's Etude in D Minor" | ||||
| 1958 | Sherry Johnson | Omaha | Monologue | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||||
| 1957 | Katherine L. Nielsen | Lincoln | Dance | Non-finalist Talent Award | Miss Iowa USA 1959 | |||
| 1956 | Diane Knotek | Lincoln | Classical Vocal "The Polonaise" | Preliminary Talent Award, Non-finalist Talent Award | ||||
| 1955 | Sandra Spiecher | Omaha | Speech "Teaching Handicapped Students" | |||||
| 1954 | Sue Welch Fisher | Kearney | Classical Vocal "Un Bel Di" from Madama Butterfly | |||||
| 1953 | Diana Louise Hann | Lincoln | Art | |||||
| 1952 | Helen Francis Burhorn | Omaha | Piano "Warsaw Concerto" | Was originally planning to do a violin and dancing talent routine but twisted her ankle during rehearsal and switched to piano | ||||
| 1951 | Geraldine Elseman | Omaha | Dramatic Monologue | |||||
| 1950 | Jinx Burrus | Crete | Baton Twirling | |||||
| 1949 | Vanita Mae Brown | Omaha | ||||||
| 1948 | Betty Love Booth | Fremont | ||||||
| Serena McKinney | Omaha | Competed as Miss Omaha | ||||||
| 1947 | Madalyn Joyce King | Omaha | Tap Dance | Non-finalist Talent Award | Competed as Miss Omaha | |||
| 1946 | Marjorie Ann Hanson | Omaha | Competed as Miss Omaha | |||||
| 1942 | Claire Buglewicz | Vocal "You Made Me Love You" | ||||||
| 1938 | Emmajane Newby | Humboldt | ||||||
| 1937 | Ruth Lenore Jones | Nebraska City | Assumed the title after the original winner, Ruby Hart, was disqualified after getting married | |||||
| 1926 | Anne Kathleen Fouca | Omaha | Competed as Miss Omaha | |||||
| 1925 | Myrtle Roach | Omaha | Top 15 | Competed as Miss Omaha |
References
- ^ "Miss Omaha Kayla Batt crowned next Miss Nebraska; Miss Douglas County, Miss Lincoln runners-up". Daily Reporter. June 12, 2011.
- ^ "Miss Douglas County Becomes New Miss Nebraska". KETV Omaha. January 24, 2011. Retrieved January 24, 2011.