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Miss Arizona

Type	Beauty pageant
Headquarters	Chandler
Location	Arizona
Membership	Miss America
Official language	English
Key people	Stacey Kole (Executive Director) Cathy Herd (President)
Website	Official website

The Miss Arizona competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Arizona in the Miss America pageant. Arizona has twice won the Miss America title. The first Miss Arizona, Anna Marie Barnett, was crowned in 1938.

Shailey Ringenbach was crowned Miss Arizona 2024 on June 22, 2024, at the Madison Center of the Arts in Phoenix, Arizona. She will compete for the title of Miss America 2025.

Gallery of past titleholders

• Vonda Kay Van Dyke,
  Miss Arizona 1964 and Miss America 1965 in 2008
• Linda Johnson,
  Miss Arizona 1968 in 2016
• Brenda Strong,
  Miss Arizona 1980 in 2006
• Corrie Hill,
  Miss Arizona 2003
• Hilary Griffith,
  Miss Arizona 2006
• Nicole Turner,
  Miss Arizona 2007
• Jennifer Smestad,
  Miss Arizona 2013 in 2015
• Jacqueline Thomas,
  Miss Arizona 2019

Results summary

The following is a visual summary of the past results of Miss Arizona titleholders at the national Miss America pageants/competitions. The year in parentheses indicates the year of the national competition during which a placement and/or award was garnered, not the year attached to the contestant's state title.

Placements

• Miss Americas: Jacque Mercer (1949), Vonda Kay Van Dyke (1965)
• 3rd runners-up: Barbara Hilgenberg (1957) (tie), Stacey Momeyer (1998), Jennifer Sedler (2012)
• 4th runners-up: Patricia Allebrand (1960), Susan Bergstrom (1964), Stacey Peterson (1976)
• Top 10: Beth Andre (1956), Lynn Freyse (1958), Pam Wenzel (1980), Debra Daniels (1983), Kathryn Bulkley (2011)
• Top 15: Anna Marie Barnett (1938), Wanda Law (1947), Laura Lawless (2003)

Awards

Preliminary Awards

• Preliminary Lifestyle & Fitness: Jacque Mercer (1949), Lynn Freyse (1958)
• Preliminary Talent: Jacque Mercer (1949), Pam Wenzel (1980)

Non-finalist Awards

• Non-finalist Talent: Paula Lou Welch (1963), Linda Gail Sirrine (1973), Sarah Tattersall (1982), Lisa Mandel (1989), Tammy Kettunen (1990), Kimberly Hoskins (1991), Stacy Agren (1995), Erin Gingrich (1997), Erin Nurss (2009), Amber Barto (2021)

Other awards

• Miss Congeniality: Vonda Kay Van Dyke (1965)
• Quality of Life Award Winners: Amanda Murray (1994), Stacy Agren (1995)
• Quality of Life Award 1st runners-up: Hilary Griffith (2007)
• Quality of Life Award Finalists: Audrey Sibley (2006)
• Special Scholarship: Donna Riggs (1959)
• Women in Business Scholarship Award Finalists: Jacqueline Thomas (2020)
• Women Who Brand Finalists: Melody Pierce (2023)

Winners

•   Declared as winner
•   Ended as a runner-up
•   Ended as a finalist or semi-finalist

External links

• Official website

References

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13. "Pageant contenders have good showing at state". Parker Pioneer. June 23, 2014.
14. Toren, Nadine. "Meet Miss Arizona 2011: Jennifer Sedler". Arizona Foothills Magazine.
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31. "1926 Candidates". Miss America. 28 June 2018.
32. "1925 Candidates". Miss America. 28 June 2018.
33. "1924 Candidates". Miss America. 28 June 2018.
34. "1923 Candidates". Miss America. 28 June 2018.
35. "1922 Candidates". Miss America. 28 June 2018.
36. "1921 Candidates". Miss America. 28 June 2018.

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