Miss Washington USA
{{for|the state pageant affiliated with Miss America|Miss Washington}}
{{Short description|Beauty pageant competition}}
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|formation = 1952
|type = Beauty pageant
|headquarters = Puyallup
|location = Washington
|membership = Miss USA
|language = English
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|website = {{URL|http://misswashingtonusa.com}}
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Image:Jamie Kern Lima - It Cosmetics Headshot.jpg, Miss Washington USA 2000]]
The Miss Washington USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Washington in the Miss USA pageant. It is currently produced by Pageants NW Productions based in Puyallup, Washington since 2002, which also produces Idaho and Oregon state pageants.
Washington has been moderately successful in terms of number of semi-finalists and placements, and has had one Miss USA. Dorothy Anstett won the crown in 1968 and went on to place 4th runner-up at Miss Universe. The most recent placement was Samantha Gallia in 2023, placing Top 20.
Prior to 2017, no Washington delegate had previously competed at Miss Teen USA, although one has competed at Miss America. Alex Carlson-Helo, Miss Washington Teen USA 2012, became the last state to have made her the first Teen to Miss crossover for the state.
Samantha Gallia of Sacramento, California, residing in Seattle, was crowned Miss Washington USA 2023 on November 13, 2022 at Renton IKEA Performing Arts Center in Renton, Washington. She will represent Washington for the title of Miss USA 2023.
Results summary
- Miss USA: Dorothy Anstett (1968)
- 1st runners-up: Tracey Goddard (1979)
- 3rd runners-up: Nancy Petraborg (1953)
- Top 10/12: Norene Gilbert (1976), Kathi Tucker (1983), Natasha Vantramp (1998)
- Top 15/20: Shirley Givins (1955), June Svedin (1956), Diana Schafer (1957), Rose Nielsen (1958), Deborah Gieberson (1969), Susan Hyde (1970), Tara McCormick (2004), Samantha Gallia (2023)
- Washington holds a record of 14 Placements at Miss USA.
=Awards=
- Miss Congeniality: Breann Parriott (2003), Imani Blackmon (2020)
Winners
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- {{Color box|gold|border=darkgray}} Declared as Winner
- {{Color box|#FFFF66|border=darkgray}} Ended as runner-up
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! width=5% | Year ! width=20%| Name ! width="3%" |Age{{efn|Age at the time of the Miss USA pageant}} ! width="10%" | Hometown ! width=14%| Placement at Miss USA ! width=17%| Special awards at Miss USA ! width=31%| Notes |
| 2024
| Tiffany Rea | 27 | Clarkston | | | |
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| 2023 | Samantha Gallia{{cite news | title=Introducing Miss WA USA & Miss WA Teen USA | publisher=King TV | date=November 15, 2022 | url=https://www.king5.com/video/news/local/introducing-miss-wa-usa-miss-wa-teen-usa/281-9419f97d-f295-44af-99a5-946f797f989a | access-date=2024-04-21 }} | 24 | Seattle | Top 20 | | |
| 2022
| 21 | Seattle | | | Eligible as a student of Seattle University at the time of crowning |
| 2021
| Christine Brodie{{cite web |url=http://nwasianweekly.com/2021/04/asian-americans-will-represent-wa-at-miss-usa-miss-teen-usa/ |title=Asian Americans will represent WA at Miss USA, Miss Teen USA |work=Northwest Asian Weekly |date=April 1, 2021 |accessdate=April 1, 2021}} | 25 | Seattle | | | |
| 2020
| 24 | Tacoma | | Miss Congeniality | Previously Miss Washington Teen USA 2013 |
| 2019
| Evelyn Clark{{cite web |url=https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/blaine-woman-first-to-compete-in-miss-washington-usa-pageant-in-wheelchair/281-611491144 |title=Blaine woman first to compete in Miss Washington USA pageant in wheelchair |access-date=May 4, 2024 |date=November 5, 2018 |last=Grace |first=Amanda |publisher=KING-TV}} | 27 | | | Competed at the state pageant in the Miss USA system on her 8th consecutive attempt, including top 5 placements in Miss Washington USA and Miss Oregon USA |
| 2018
| Abigail Hill{{cite web |url=https://www.courierherald.com/news/local-miss-washington-prepares-for-national-stage/ |title=Local Miss Washington prepares for national stage |access-date=May 4, 2024 |date=November 16, 2017 |last=Still |first=Ray |work=Enumclaw Courier-Herald}} | 19 | Enumclaw | | | |
| 2017
| Alex Carlson-Helo | 22 | Bothell | | |Previously Miss Washington Teen USA 2012 |
| rowspan="2" |2016
|26 | | | Originally first runner-up, assumed the title after Stormy Keffeler resigned the title in January 2016 |
| Stormy Keffeler
| 23 | Redmond | colspan="2" {{N/A|did not compete}} |
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| 2015
| McKenzie Novell{{cite web|url=https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2014/nov/27/lc-gu-grad-kenzie-novell-new-miss-washington-usa/|title=LC, GU grad Kenzie Novell new Miss Washington USA|work=The Spokesman-Review|author=Hval, Cindy|date=November 27, 2014|access-date=May 4, 2024}} | 23 | Spokane | | | Top 10 at Miss Washington 2013 as Miss Tahoma and top 10 at Miss Washington 2012 as Miss Spokane |
| 2014
| Allyson Rowe | 25 | Spokane | | | |
| 2013
| Cassandra Searles | 24 | Redmond | | | |
| 2012
| Christina Clarke | 22 | | | |
| 2011
| Angelina Kayyalaynen | 20 | Orchards | | | Born in Ukrainian SSR, in what was then part of Soviet Union |
| 2010
| Tracy Turnure | 23 | Seattle | | | Twin sister of Miss Washington USA 2009 |
| 2009
| Tara Turnure | 22 | Seattle | | | Twin sister of Miss Washington USA 2010 |
| 2008
| Michelle Font | 26 | Renton | | | |
| 2007
| LeiLani Jones | 24 | Tacoma | | | |
| 2006
| Tiffany Doorn | 24 | | | |
| 2005
| Amy Crawford | 25 | Auburn | | | Top 10 at National Sweetheart 2001 |
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| 2004 | Tara McCormick | 24 | Seattle | Top 15 | | |
| 2003
| Breann Parriott | 25 | Puyallup | | Miss Congeniality | Previously Miss Washington 2001 |
| 2002
| Carly Shorten | 18 | | | |
| 2001
| Bre Sakas | 24 | Yakima | | | |
| 2000
| 22 | | | Contestant on season 1 of Big Brother, finished in 4th Place. Co-founder and CEO of It Cosmetics. |
| 1999
| Tammy Jansen | 19 | Bellevue | | | |
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| 1998 | 22 | Puyallup | Top 10 | | Later CNN Correspondent |
| 1997
| Sara Williams | 24 | Tacoma | | | |
| 1996
| Staci Baldwin | 27 | Kirkland | | | |
| 1995
| Theresa Cox | | Stanwood | | | |
| 1994
| Angel Ward | | Seattle | | | |
| 1993
| Kandi Fletcher | | Longview | | | |
| 1992
| Stinha McLynne | | Redmond | | | |
| 1991
| Lanae Williams | | Burien | | | |
| 1990
| Melissa Dickson | | Seattle | | | |
| 1989
| | Seattle | | | |
| 1988
| Sandra Kord | | Seattle | | | |
| 1987
| Jennifer Doerflinger | | Seattle | | | |
| 1986
| Jacqueline McMahon | | Orting | | | |
| 1985
| Sherry Rials | | Bellevue | | | |
| 1984
| Sue Gerrish | | Seattle | | | |
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| 1983 | Kathi Tucker | | Renton | Top 12 | | Mother of Tucker Perry, Miss Tennessee USA 2010, who placed in the Top 10 at Miss USA 2010 |
| 1982
| Jana Minerich | | Seattle | | | |
| 1981
| Leila Wagner | | Seattle | | | |
| 1980
| Janet Brown | | Seattle | | | |
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| 1979 | Tracey Goddard | | Seattle | 1st runner-up | | |
| 1978
| Barbara Bogar | | Seattle | | | |
| 1977
| Ivy Lynn Reed | | Lynnwood | | | Later Miss Washington World 1978 and contestant at Miss World America 1978. |
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| 1976 | Norene Gilbert | | Custer | Top 12 | | Represented Washington in Miss World USA 1974 did not place |
| 1975
| Cindy Baxter | | Kirkland | | | |
| 1974
| Cheryl Rutledge | | Yakima | | | |
| 1973
| Cindi Arnett | | Bellevue | | | |
| 1972
| Connie Ambrose | | White Swan | | | |
| 1971
| Christine McComb | |Bothell | | | |
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| 1970 | Susan Hyde | | Seattle | Top 15 | | |
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| 1969 | Deborah Gieberson | | Seattle | Top 15 | | |
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| 1968 | 20 | Kirkland | Miss USA 1968 | | 4th runner-up at Miss Universe 1968 |
| 1967
| Elizabeth Kellmyer | | | | | |
| 1966
| Sandra Carlile | | Yakima | | | |
| 1960–65
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| 1959
| Leah Robinson | | | | | |
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| 1958 | Rose Nielsen | | | Top 15 | | |
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| 1957 | Diana Schafer | | | Top 15 | | |
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| 1956 | June Svedin | | | Top 15 | | |
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| 1955 | Shirley Jean Givins{{Cite news |date=20 July 1955 |title=JC girls Miss U.S.A. finalist, Miss New Mexico is favorite |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/press-and-sun-bulletin/32446109/ |access-date=5 September 2023 |work=Press and Sun-Bulletin |pages=1 |via=Newspapers.com}} | 20 | Seattle | Top 15 | | |
| 1954
| Darlene Shride | – | – | | | |
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| 1953 | Nancy Petraborg{{Cite news |date=12 July 1953 |title=Untitled |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-troy-messenger-july-12-1953-untit/124249217/ |access-date=8 May 2023 |work=The Troy Messenger |location=Troy, Alabama |pages=6 |via=Newspapers.com}} | 18 | Seattle | 3rd runner-up | | |
| 1952
| Adele Slaybaugh{{Cite news |date=27 June 1952 |title=39 compete tonight for Miss United States |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/58968214/usa1952/ |access-date=12 December 2022 |work=Fort Worth Star-Telegram |pages=26 |language=en |via=Newspapers.com}} | 18 | | | |
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References
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External links
- [http://www.misswashingtonusa.com/ Official website]
{{State pageantry|State=Washington}}
{{Washington pageant winners}}
{{Miss USA state}}
Category:Miss Washington USA winners
Category:Washington (state) culture
Category:Women in Washington (state)
Category:Recurring events established in 1952