Miss Arizona USA
{{Short description|American beauty pageant competition}}
{{for|the state pageant affiliated with Miss America|Miss Arizona}}
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|formation = 1952
|type = Beauty pageant
|headquarters = Phoenix
|location = Arizona
|membership = Miss USA
|language = English
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Miss Arizona USA is the beauty pageant that selects the representative for the state of Arizona in the Miss USA pageant, and the name of the title held by its winner. The pageant is directed by Casting Crown Productions.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/21753811/|title=Miss Arizona USA confident – Gilbert beauty says she'll win Vegas pageant|last=Gersema|first=Emily|date=2008-03-31|work=Arizona Republic|access-date=2018-07-11|language=en}}
Arizona's most successful placements were in 1965 and 1980, when Jane Nelson and Jineane Ford, respectively, placed as the first runner-up. Ford later became Miss USA 1980 after the original winner Shawn Weatherly was crowned Miss Universe 1980. Arizona's most recent placement was in 2016, when Chelsea Myers placed in the Top 15.
The longest reigning titleholder was Yesenia Vidales in 2020 at 1 year, 6 months and 5 days, while Cassidy Jo Jacks was the shortest reigning titleholder in 2021 ended her reign at 10 months and 19 days.
The current Miss Arizona USA is K Johnson Phoenix and was crowned at the Higley Center for the Performing Arts in Gilbert on May 26, 2024. Johnson will represent Arizona at Miss USA 2024.
Gallery of titleholders
File:LeeAnneLocken2011.jpg|LeeAnne Locken, Miss Arizona USA 1989
File:CourtneyBarnas.jpg|Courtney Barnas, Miss Arizona USA 2007
File:Brittany Bell 2010.jpg|Brittany Bell, Miss Arizona USA 2010
File:Brittany Brannon.png|Brittany Brannon, Miss Arizona USA 2011
File:Erika Frantzve, Miss Arizona USA.jpg|right|Erika Frantzve, Miss Arizona USA 2012
File:Nicole Smith Miss Arizona USA 2018.jpg|Nicole Smith, Miss Arizona USA 2018
Results summary
=Placements in Miss USA=
- 1st Runners-Up: Jane Nelson (1965), Jineane Ford (1980){{efn|name=Ford|Ford originally placed as the first runner-up at Miss USA 1980, but inherited the crown after the original winner Shawn Weatherly was crowned Miss Universe 1980. The two titles cannot be held simultaneously.}}
- 2nd Runners-Up: Susanne Pottenger (1971), Diane Martin (1987), Alicia-Monique Blanco (2009)
- 3rd Runners-Up: Ruth Hayes (1969), Sherry Nix (1973)
- Top 10/11/12: Carlys Peterson (1974), Toni Abranovic (1977), Ana Rupert (1979), Cassie Hill (1981), Michelle Ducote (1985), Lee Anne Locken (1989), Maricarroll Verlinde (1991), Dannis Shephard (1992), Stacey Kole (1998)
- Top 15/16/20: Jerri Michaelson (1962), Diane McGarry (1963), Roxanne Neeley (1966), Judianne Magnusson (1967), Danielle Demski (2004), Brenna Sakas (2006), Brittany Brannon (2011), Jordan Wessel (2014), Maureen Montagne (2015), Chelsea Myers (2016)
Arizona holds a record of 26 placements at Miss USA.
=Awards=
- Miss Congeniality: Cara Jackson (1999)
- Miss Photogenic: Jineane Ford (1980), Brittany Brannon (2011)
- Best State Costume: Daria Sparling (1984), Michelle Ducote (1985), Maricarroll Verlinde (1991)
Winners
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2024
| K Johnson | 41 | Phoenix | Miss Uptown Phoenix | | | |
2023
| Candace Kanavel | 27 | Tempe | Miss Tempe | | | |
2022
| Isabel Ticlo | 28 | Phoenix | Miss Phoenix | | |
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2021
| Cassidy Jo Jacks | 26 | Mesa | Miss Usery Mountain | | |
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2020
| Yesenia Vidales | 23 | Phoenix | Miss Uptown Phoenix | | | |
2019
| Savannah Wix | 22 | Miss Saguaro Blossom | | |
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2018
| Nicole Smith | 24 | Phoenix | Miss Phoenix | | | |
2017
| 26 | Tucson | Miss Sunset Canyon | | | |
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| 2016 | Chelsea Myers | 20 | Chandler | Miss North Phoenix | Top 15 | | |
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| 2015 | 21 | Chandler | Miss South Chandler | Top 15 | |
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| 2014 | Jordan Wessel | 20 | Phoenix | Miss Tempe | Top 20 | | |
2013
| Rachel Massie | 19 | Glendale | Miss Maricopa County | | | |
2012
| Erika Lane Frantzve | 23 | Miss Phoenix | | | |
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| 2011 | 22 | Miss Grand Canyon | Top 16 | Miss Photogenic | |
2010
| 22 | Chandler | Miss Chandler | | |
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| 2009 | Alicia-Monique Blanco{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/21754161/|title=2 pageant winners share bond|last=Sparks|first=Colleen|date=2008-12-10|work=Arizona Republic|access-date=2018-07-11|language=en}} | 22 | Phoenix | Miss Diamondback | 2nd Runner-Up | | |
2008
| Kimberly Joiner{{cite news|title=Gilbert teacher will compete for Miss USA|publisher=East Valley Tribune|date=2007-11-04|first=Trevor|last=Guyette|url=http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/101256|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20070624104011/http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/101256|archive-date=2007-06-24}} | Gilbert | Miss Gilbert | | | |
2007
| Courtney Barnas | 19 | Mesa | Miss Red Mountain | | | |
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| 2006 | Brenna Sakas | 21 | Chandler | | Top 15 | | |
2005
| Mariana Loya | 26 | Gilbert | | | |
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| 2004 | Danielle Demski{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/21753974/|title=Broadcast beauty goes for top|last=Carroll|first=Doug|date=2004-01-03|work=Arizona Republic|access-date=2018-07-11|language=en}} | 22 | Chandler | | Top 15 | | |
2003
| Nafeesa DeFlorias | 26 | Phoenix | | | | |
2002
| Jennifer Lenz | 25 | Mesa | | | | |
2001
| Tasha Dixon | 19 | Phoenix | | | | |
2000
| 26 | | | |
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1999
| 25 | Chandler | | |
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| 1998 | Stacey Kole | 24 | Tempe | | Top 10 | | |
1997
| Jessica Nicely | | Gilbert | | | | |
1996
| Christina Novak | | Tempe | | | | |
1995
| Shara Riggs | | | | | |
1994
| Jennifer Tisdale | | Mesa | | | | |
1993
| Apryl Hettich | | | | | |
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| 1992 | Dannis Shephard | | Mesa | | Top 11 | | |
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| 1991 | Maricarroll Verlinde | | Tempe | | Top 11 | Best State Costume | |
1990
| Lezlie Leonard | | Tempe | | | | |
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| 1989 | | | Top 10 | | |
1988
| 22 | | | |
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| 1987 | Diane Martin | 24 | Phoenix | | 2nd Runner-Up | |
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1986
| Jodi Armstrong | | Phoenix | | | | |
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| 1985 | Michelle Ducote | 20 | Tempe | | Top 10 | Best State Costume | |
1984
| 19 | Tucson | | | |
1983
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1982
| Lori Hakola | | Tucson | | | | |
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| 1981 | Cassie Hill | | Phoenix | | Top 12 | | |
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| 1980 | 20 | Gilbert | | 1st Runner-Up | Miss Photogenic |
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| 1979 | Ana Rupert | | | Top 12 | | |
1978
| Jacque Crutchfield | | Phoenix | | | | |
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| 1977 | Toni Abranovic | | | Top 12 | | |
1976
| Curvey Walters | | Phoenix | | | | |
1975
| Sanna Osgood | | | | | |
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| 1974 | Carlys Peterson | | Phoenix | | Top 12 | | |
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| 1973 | Sherry Nix | | Phoenix | | 3rd Runner-Up | | |
1972
| Marcia Banks | | Tempe | | | | |
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| 1971 | Susanne Pottenger | | Tempe | | 2nd Runner-Up | | |
1970
| Alicia Lein | | Mesa | | | | |
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| 1969 | Ruth Hayes | | Tempe | Miss Tempe | 3rd Runner-Up | | |
1968
| Shirley Sprague | | Avondale | | | | |
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| 1967 | Judianne Magnusson | | Mesa | Miss Phoenix | Top 15 | | |
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| 1966 | Roxanne Neeley | | Miss Phoenix | Top 15 | | |
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| 1965 | Jane Nelson | | Mesa | | 1st Runner-Up | |
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1964
| Diane Reutter | | Phoenix | | | | |
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| 1963 | Diane McGarry | | Mesa | | Top 15 | | |
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| 1962 | Jerri Michaelson | | Miss Yuma | Top 15 | | |
1961
| Shyrle Owens Ortiz | | Avondale | | | | |
1960
| Virginia Crook | | Mesa | | | | |
1959
| Patricia Varga | | Mesa | | | | |
1958
| Shirlee Fox | | Avondale | | | | |
1956
| Maija Bertulson | | Tucson | | | | |
1955
| 19 | Glendale | | | | |
1954
| 18 | Glendale | | | | |
1953
| Eleanor Ruth Cross{{Cite news |date=12 July 1953 |title=Miss Universe pageant Tableau of Beauty |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/long-beach-press-telegram-july-12-1953/124249098/ |access-date=8 May 2023 |work=Long Beach Press-Telegram |location=Long Beach, California |pages=7 |language=en |via=Newspapers.com}} | 19 | Chandler | | | | |
1952
| Charlene Hendricks{{Cite news |date=25 June 1952 |title=Beauty entry skips meet |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/15873989/arizona-republic/ |access-date=12 December 2022 |work=Arizona Republic |pages=7 |via=Newspapers.com}} | 18 | Tempe | | | | |
Notes
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References
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External links
{{Commons category|Miss Arizona USA titleholders|Miss Arizona USA}}
- [http://www.missarizonausa.com/ Official website]
{{State pageantry|State=Arizona}}
{{Miss USA state}}
Category:1952 establishments in Arizona
Category:Recurring events established in 1952