Miss Nevada
Encyclopedia
The Miss Nevada competition is the pageant
that selects the representative for the state of Nevada
in the Miss America
pageant.
Beauty contest
A beauty pageant or beauty contest, is a competition that mainly focuses on the physical beauty of its contestants, although such contests often incorporate personality, talent, and answers to judges' questions as judged criteria...
that selects the representative for the state of Nevada
Nevada
Nevada is a state in the western, mountain west, and southwestern regions of the United States. With an area of and a population of about 2.7 million, it is the 7th-largest and 35th-most populous state. Over two-thirds of Nevada's people live in the Las Vegas metropolitan area, which contains its...
in the Miss America
Miss America
The Miss America pageant is a long-standing competition which awards scholarships to young women from the 50 states plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands...
pageant.
Winners
| Year | Name | Hometown | Age | Local Title | Miss America Talent | Placement at Miss America | Special scholarships at Miss America | Notes |
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| 2011 | Alana Lee | Las Vegas | 21 | Miss Clark County | Vocal | |||
| 2010 | Cris Crotz | Mesquite Mesquite, Nevada Mesquite is a city in Clark County, Nevada, United States, adjacent to the Arizona state line and northeast of Las Vegas. As of the 2010 United States Census, it had a population of 15,277. The city is located in the Virgin River Valley... |
24 | Miss Southern Counties | Popular Vocal "Alone Alone (Heart song) -Céline Dion version:Céline Dion covered "Alone" for her 2007 album Taking Chances. It was released as the second single in Europe and North America, and third in the United Kingdom... " |
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| 2009 | Christina Keegan | Gardnerville | 23 | Miss Northern Counties | Ballet en Pointe "Bohemian Rhapsody Bohemian Rhapsody "Bohemian Rhapsody" is a song by the British rock band Queen. It was written by Freddie Mercury for the band's 1975 album A Night at the Opera... " |
2nd runner-up Quality of Life award | ||
| 2008 | Julianna Erdesz Julianna Erdesz Julianna Christina Erdesz is a Hungarian-American model. She was crowned Miss Nevada 2008 and competed in the Miss America 2009 Pageant... |
Reno Reno, Nevada Reno is the county seat of Washoe County, Nevada, United States. The city has a population of about 220,500 and is the most populous Nevada city outside of the Las Vegas metropolitan area... |
24 | Miss Carson City | Vocal | Future Miss Nevada USA 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... 2010 |
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| 2007 | Caleche Manos | Reno | 23 | Miss Carson City | Vocal "Love Is a Battlefield Love Is a Battlefield "Love Is a Battlefield" is a song written by Holly Knight and Mike Chapman, after Pat Benatar asked Chapman to write her a hit song. It was released as a single from Benatar's album Live from Earth. The single has been certified gold and is her highest charting single in the United States... " |
Quality of Life Award Winner | Contestant at National Sweetheart National Sweetheart Miss National Sweetheart is a United States beauty pageant created in 1952 where runners-up from the Miss America state pageants are invited to Hoopeston, Illinois to compete for the title of Miss National Sweetheart.... 2006 |
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| 2006 | Caydi Cole | Las Vegas Las Vegas metropolitan area The Las Vegas Valley is the heart of the Las Vegas-Paradise, NV MSA also known as the Las Vegas–Paradise–Henderson MSA which includes all of Clark County, Nevada, and is a metropolitan area in the southern part of the U.S. state of Nevada. The Valley is defined by the Las Vegas Valley landform, a ... |
22 | Miss Clark County | Vocal "Blues in the Night Blues in the Night "Blues in the Night" is a popular song which has become a pop standard and is generally considered to be part of the Great American Songbook. The music was written by Harold Arlen, the lyrics by Johnny Mercer, for a 1941 film begun with the working title Hot Nocturne, but finally released as Blues... " |
Nevada Junior Miss 2003 | ||
| 2005 | Crystal Wosik | Las Vegas | 23 | Miss Las Vegas | Lyrical Dance "Don't Rain on My Parade Don't Rain on My Parade "Don't Rain On My Parade" is a popular song from the 1964 musical Funny Girl. It was also featured in the 1968 movie version of the musical. The song was written by Bob Merrill and Jule Styne. Both the movie and stage versions feature Barbra Streisand performing the song. It has since become one of... " |
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| 2004 | Elizabeth Muto | Las Vegas | 24 | Miss Las Vegas | Dramatic Monologue "Who Will Cry?" | Non Finalist Interview Award, Second Runner Up for the Quality of Life Award | Recipient of Presidential Volunteer Service Award by President G.W. Bush; Appeared on Good Morning America, Dr. Phil, Montel Williams and Inside Edition to advocate for child rights | |
| 2003 | Christina O'Neil | Carson City Carson City, Nevada The Consolidated Municipality of Carson City is the capital of the state of Nevada. The words Consolidated Municipality refer to a series of changes in 1969 which abolished Ormsby County and merged all the settlements contained within its borders into Carson City. Since that time Carson City has... |
24 | Miss Gold Country | Vocal "Your Daddy's Son" from Ragtime Ragtime (musical) Ragtime is a musical with a book by Terrence McNally, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, and music by Stephen Flaherty.Based on the 1975 novel by E. L. Doctorow, Ragtime tells the story of three groups in America, represented by Coalhouse Walker Jr., a Harlem musician; Mother, the matriarch of a WASP family in... |
Contestant at National Sweetheart 1999; Recipient of Presidential Volunteer Service Award by President G.W. Bush; Carson City School District Teacher of the Year 2009 | ||
| 2002 | Teresa Benitez | Reno | 24 | Miss Silver State | Dramatic Monologue from "The Laramie Project The Laramie Project The Laramie Project is a play by Moisés Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater Project about the reaction to the 1998 murder of University of Wyoming gay student Matthew Shepard in Laramie,... " |
3rd runner-up | Preliminary Interview Award, Preliminary On-Stage Interview Award, Quality of Life Award Winner | |
| 2001 | Ashley Huff | Las Vegas | 21 | Miss Las Vegas | Polynesian Dance "Welcome to Polynesia" | Future Miss Nevada USA 2003 | ||
| 2000 | Tiffanie Story | Reno | 19 | Miss UNR/Truckee Meadows | Vocal "Ain't Misbehavin' Ain't Misbehavin' (song) "Ain't Misbehavin" is a 1929 song written by Thomas "Fats" Waller, Harry Brooks and Andy Razaf . Waller recorded the original version that year for Victor Records and also later performed the song in the 1943 film Stormy Weather. It was used in the off-broadway musical Connie's Hot Chocolates... " |
Non Finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1999 | Gina Giacinto | Las Vegas | 24 | Miss Las Vegas | Original Vocal Presentation "Dreams Were Given Wings To Fly" | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | Future Miss Nevada USA 2001, 3rd runner up at Miss USA 2001 | |
| 1998 | Anna Carpenter | Mesquite | 18 | Miss Mesquite | Monologue | |||
| 1997 | Amanda Gunderson | Reno | 19 | Miss Northern Counties | Classical Vocal "Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen "Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen" is the second aria sung by a coloratura soprano role Queen of the Night in Mozart's opera The Magic Flute .-The aria:... " |
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| 1996 | Annette Albertson | Reno | 24 | Miss Truckee Meadows | Vocal "Luck Be a Lady" | |||
| 1995 | Jennifer Joseph | Wendover West Wendover, Nevada West Wendover is a city in Elko County, Nevada, United States. The population was 4,721 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Elko Micropolitan Statistical Area. West Wendover is located on the eastern border of Nevada and the western edge of the Great Salt Lake Desert, and is contiguous with... |
24 | Miss Elko County/Northeast Nevada | Vocal "I Am Changing" | Non Finalist Talent Award | Contestant on the E! E! E! Entertainment Television is an American basic cable and satellite television network, owned by NBCUniversal. It features entertainment-related programming, reality television, feature films and occasionally series and specials unrelated to the entertainment industry.E! has an audience reach of... reality show "The Entertainer" |
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| 1994 | Laura Hubach | Reno | 22 | Miss Reno | Classical Piano | |||
| 1993 | Mitzie Darleen Cox | Sparks Sparks, Nevada Sparks is a city in Washoe County, Nevada, United States, located east of Reno, Nevada. The 2010 U.S. Census Bureau population count was 90,264. Sparks is often referred to as half of a twin city .-Geography and Climate:... |
20 | Miss Sparks | Vocal / Dance "I'm a Brass Band" from Sweet Charity Sweet Charity Sweet Charity is a musical with music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by Dorothy Fields and book by Neil Simon. It was directed and choreographed for Broadway by Bob Fosse starring his wife and muse Gwen Verdon. It is based on Federico Fellini's screenplay for Nights of Cabiria... |
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| 1992 | Sandra Dornak | Las Vegas | 25 | Miss Las Vegas | Ventriloquism "Super califragilistic expialidocious Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is an English word, with 34 letters, that was in the song with the same title in the 1964 Disney musical film Mary Poppins. The song was written by the Sherman Brothers, and sung by Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke... " |
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| 1991 | Malia Winn | Minden Minden, Nevada Minden is a census-designated place in Douglas County, Nevada, United States. The population was 2,836 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Douglas County and is adjacent to the city of Gardnerville. It is named after the town of Minden, in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It... |
17 | Miss Douglas County | Interpretive Ballet "Somewhere in Time Somewhere in Time (film) Somewhere in Time is a 1980 romantic science fiction film directed by Jeannot Szwarc. It is a film adaptation of the 1975 novel Bid Time Return by Richard Matheson, who also wrote the screenplay... " |
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| 1990 | Tia Marie Zorne | Las Vegas | 21 | Miss Las Vegas | Acro-Jazz Dance "Julie's Theme" from American Anthem American Anthem American Anthem is a 1986 American film produced by Lorimar Motion Pictures and released in North America by Columbia Pictures. It was directed by Albert Magnoli, and starred Mitch Gaylord and Janet Jones. The subject of the film was a football player turned gymnast that was seeking to join the... |
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| 1989 | Brenda Linscott | Incline Village | 23 | Miss Cosmopolitan Counties | Vocal "Memory" | |||
| 1988 | Deborah Schuler | Incline Village | 22 | Miss Cosmopolitan Counties | Vocal "The Woman in the Moon" from A Star Is Born A Star Is Born (1976 film) A Star Is Born is a 1976 American rock music musical film telling the story of a young woman, played by Barbra Streisand who enters show business, and meets and falls in love with an established male star, played by Kris Kristofferson, only to find her career ascending while his goes into decline... |
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| 1987 | Stacie James | Las Vegas | 23 | Miss Las Vegas | Vocal "On My Own" from Les Misérables Songs from Les Misérables Les Misérables, colloquially known as Les Mis, is one of the most famous and most performed musicals worldwide. It is based on the novel Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, which follows the struggles of a cast of characters as they seek redemption and revolution in nineteenth century France... |
2nd runner-up | Preliminary Talent Award | |
| 1986 | Kelsey Kara | Las Vegas | 23 | Miss Las Vegas | Flamenco Dance | |||
| 1985 | Sonja Nall | Las Vegas | 23 | Miss Las Vegas | Classical Ballet en Pointe "Kitri's Variation" from Don Quixote Don Quixote (ballet) Don Quixote is a ballet originally staged in four acts and eight scenes, based on an episode taken from the famous novel Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes. It was originally choreographed by Marius Petipa to the music of Ludwig Minkus and was first presented by the Ballet of the... |
Non Finalist Talent Award | Toured with 1986 Miss America Gillette Global Gillette Gillette is a brand of Procter & Gamble currently used for safety razors, among other personal care products. Based in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, it was one of several brands originally owned by The Gillette Company, a leading global supplier of products under various brands, which was... Show Troupe |
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| 1984 | LeAnna Grant | Las Vegas | 22 | Miss Las Vegas | Vocal "I Love Paris I Love Paris "I Love Paris" is a popular song written by Cole Porter and published in 1953. The song was introduced by Lilo in the musical Can-Can.Was the title of Michel Legrand's most popular album, which included an orchestral arrangement of the song... " |
Future Miss Nevada USA 1986 | ||
| 1983 | Kim Pacini | Incline Village | 24 | Miss North Lake Tahoe | Vocal "You're the Top You're the Top "You're The Top" is a Cole Porter song from the 1934 musical Anything Goes. It is about a man and a woman who take turns complimenting each other... " |
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| 1982 | Kim King | Las Vegas | 21 | Miss Clark County | Banjo Solo "Waiting for the Robert E. Lee" | |||
| 1981 | Suzanne Bowman | Reno | 20 | Miss Reno | Modern Rhythmic Gymnastics "Zero to Sixty in Five" | |||
| 1980 | Phyllis Hamlin | Reno | 23 | Miss Reno | Piano Solo "Warsaw Concerto Warsaw Concerto The Warsaw Concerto is a single-movement piano concerto written for the 1941 film Dangerous Moonlight . It was written by British composer Richard Addinsell... " |
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| 1979 | Jeanne Cangemi | North Lake Tahoe | 22 | Miss North Lake Tahoe | Classical & Jazz Saxophone "Harlem Nocturne Harlem Nocturne "Harlem Nocturne" is a jazz standard written by Earle Hagen and Dick Rogers in 1939. The song was adopted by bandleader Randy Brooks the next year as his theme song."Harlem Nocturne" has been frequently recorded... " & "Csárdás Csárdás (Monti) Csárdás is perhaps the most famous composition of Vittorio Monti. A rhapsodical concert piece written in 1904, it is a well-known folk piece based on a Hungarian csárdás. It was originally composed for violin, mandolin or piano... " |
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| 1978 | Megan Anderson | Reno | 19 | Miss Washoe County | Classical Vocal "Vissi d'arte Vissi d'arte "Vissi d'arte" is a soprano aria from act II of the opera Tosca by Giacomo Puccini. It is sung by Tosca as she thinks of her fate and how the life of her beloved, Mario Cavaradossi, is at the mercy of Baron Scarpia.-Libretto:-External links:*... " |
Non Finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1977 | Lori Isom | Las Vegas | 18 | Miss Clark County | Jazz Dance "Classical Blues" | |||
| 1976 | Sandra Kastel | Las Vegas | 21 | Miss Las Vegas | Vocal "My Man My Man "My Man" is a 1982 single by Yoko Ono from the album It's Alright in a New Wave/calypso style. The minimalist "Let The Tears Dry" appeared on the B-side.... " |
Non Finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1975 | Sherri Ann Lowe | Las Vegas | 21 | Miss Las Vegas | Baton Twirling / Variety Act | |||
| 1974 | Jacqueline Barker | Sparks | 19 | Miss Sparks | Popular Vocal "The Way We Were The Way We Were (song) "The Way We Were" is the title song to the 1973 movie The Way We Were, starring Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford. The song was written by Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman, scored by Marvin Hamlisch and performed by Streisand... " |
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| 1973 | Echo Rost | Sparks | 20 | Miss Sparks | Modern Jazz Dance "I Feel the Earth Move" | Tied for Neat As A Pin Award | ||
| 1972 | Helen Bennett | Reno | 23 | Miss Reno | Ballet "Dance of the Gypsy" | Non Finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1971 | Joan Burachio | Las Vegas | 21 | Miss Las Vegas | Accordion "Csárdás" | Semi-finalist | ||
| 1970 | Vicky Jo Todd | Sparks | 20 | Miss Sparks | Vocal / Guitar "Time" | Non Finalist Talent Award | Toured with Miss America USO Troupe | |
| 1969 | Karen Wastun | Yerington Yerington, Nevada Yerington is a city in Lyon County, located in western Nevada, USA. The population was 2,883 at the 2000 census. It is named after Henry M. Yerington, Superintendent of the Virginia and Truckee Railroad from 1868 to 1910. It is the county seat of Lyon County.... |
21 | Miss Lyon County | Dramatic Presentation "Lizzie" from The Rainmaker The Rainmaker (play) The Rainmaker is a play written by N. Richard Nash in the early 1950s. The play opened on October 28, 1954 at the Cort Theatre in New York and ran for 125 performances. It was directed by Joseph Anthony and produced by Ethel Linder Reiner.... |
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| 1968 | Sharon Davis | Reno | 19 | Miss University of Nevada | Classical Vocal "Quando me'n vo'" | |||
| 1967 | Vicky Landeck | Reno | 18 | Miss Reno | Dramatic Reading "Ruth, the Moabitess" by N.A. Truell | |||
| 1966 | Roberta Sharp | Carson City | 18 | Miss Carson City | Piano Solo | |||
| 1965 | Kathryn Blaikie | Carson City | 18 | Miss Carson City | Musical Comedy "I'm Late" | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | ||
| 1964 | Ellen Roseman | Sparks | 21 | Miss South Lake Tahoe | Comedy Skit | |||
| 1963 | Cheryle Thompson | Las Vegas | Miss Las Vegas | Folk Singing "My Lover Has Gone" | Semi-finalist | |||
| 1962 | Audrey Chambers | Reno | 19 | Baton Twirling, Fire Baton & Dance | Previously Nevada's Junior Miss 1961 | |||
| 1961 | Sherry Wagner | Reno | 19 | Tap Dance | ||||
| 1960 | Nancy Bowen | McGill McGill, Nevada McGill is a census-designated place in White Pine County, Nevada, United States. The population was 1,148 at the 2010 census.-Geography:McGill is located at .... |
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| 1959 | Dawn Wells Dawn Wells Dawn Elberta Wells is an American actress known for playing Mary Ann Summers on the sitcom Gilligan's Island during its run from 1964 until 1967.- Early life :... |
Reno | 20 | Dramatic Reading | "Mary Ann Mary Ann Summers Mary Ann Summers is a fictional character in the television sitcom Gilligan's Island which ran on the CBS network from 1964 to 1967, and has run more or less continuously since in reruns.- Role :... " on Gilligan's Island Gilligan's Island Gilligan's Island is an American television series created and produced by Sherwood Schwartz and originally produced by United Artists Television. The situation comedy series featured Bob Denver; Alan Hale, Jr.; Jim Backus; Natalie Schafer; Tina Louise; Russell Johnson; and Dawn Wells. It aired for... |
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| 1958 | Judy Wadsworth | Sparks | Drama | |||||
| 1957 | Loni Gravelle | Reno | Piano "Grieg's Piano Concerto In A Minor Grieg's Piano Concerto In A Minor See here for the Piano Concerto in A Minor by Edvard Grieg.Grieg's Piano Concerto In A Minor by Edvard Grieg performed by Electric Light Orchestra on the box set Flashback.... " |
Semi-finalist | ||||
| 1956 | Carmen Ruggeroli | Las Vegas | Vocal | |||||
| 1955 | Vivienne Potter | Reno | ||||||
| 1954 | Janice Babcock | Reno | Ballet "Blues" | |||||
| 1953 | Jeannine McColl | Las Vegas | Dance | |||||
| 1952 | Bonnie Wilson | Reno | Art / Charcoal Sketching | assumed the title after the original winner, Sylvia Russell, got married | ||||
| 1951 | Donna Sollars | Reno | Vocal | |||||
| 1950 | Tosca Masini | Sparks | Comedy Characterization | Semi-finalist | ||||
| 1949 | Carol Lampe | Reno | Speech "4-H 4-H 4-H in the United States is a youth organization administered by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture of the United States Department of Agriculture , with the mission of "engaging youth to reach their fullest potential while advancing the field of youth development." The name represents... " |