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Miss America 2025
Miss America 2025 was the 97th edition of the Miss America pageant, held inside the Walt Disney Theater, located at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts in Orlando, Florida, alongside the Miss America's Teen 2025 competition on January 4 and 5, 2025 respectively. Madison Marsh of Colorado crowned Abbie Stockard of Alabama as her successor at the end of the event. Background New eligibility rules allow transgender entrant who have fully completed " sexual reassignment surgery" a year prior to competing. Other usual rules apply to the 2025 part of the Miss America Pageants. Ballroom dancing and cheerleading utilizing "human props" has been added as potential talents. The partner must be dressed in all black and cannot perform any solo parts. The Miss Puerto Rico pageant has also been reinstated after last competing in 2017. Results Placements Preliminary awards Contestants Fifty-two contestants competed for the title. Notes References {{Mis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abbie Stockard
Abbie Stockard (born July 26, 2002) is an American beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss America 2025. Stockard was previously crowned Miss Alabama 2024, making her the fourth woman from Alabama to be crowned Miss America. Early life and education Stockard was born in Birmingham, Alabama, to parents Brad and Kim Stockard, and has two siblings, twin brother Bradley and younger sister Lilly. Stockard attended Vestavia Hills High School in Vestavia Hills, Alabama, graduating in 2021. Prior to winning Miss America, Stockard was a senior at Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama, as a nursing major, a member of Alpha Gamma Delta, and a former member of the Tiger Paws dance team. She is planning to obtain a doctorate in nurse anesthesia, and specialize in pediatric medicine. Pageantry Stockard was named Miss Hoover 2024, qualifying her for the Miss Alabama 2024 pageant which she won on June 29, 2024. Miss America 2025 As Miss Alabama 2024, Stockard was selected to repr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss Tennessee
The Miss Tennessee competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Tennessee in the Miss America Scholarship Competition. Carley Jaymes Vogel of Murfreesboro was crowned Miss Tennessee 2024 on June 22, 2024, at the Martin Center for the Arts in Johnson City, Tennessee. She competed for Miss America in January 2025. She was a preliminary talent winner and was 2nd Runner-Up to Miss America. History The Miss Tennessee pageant was first held in 1938, although the winner, Isobel Carter, was unable to compete at Miss America due to illness and so the 1st runner-up became Miss Tennessee. The following year, two winners were chosen to compete for the Miss America title. In 1940 the pageant suffered a repeat of 1938, with the winner resigning through illness and the 1st runner-up representing the state at the national competition. The routine pageant was held in 1941, but from 1942 to 1946 representatives were appointed without a pageant being held, due to Wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss Maryland
The Miss Maryland competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Maryland in the Miss America pageant. Bridget O'Brien of Frederick was crowned Miss Maryland 2024 in June 2024 at Maryland Theatre in Hagerstown, Maryland. She will go on to compete for the title of Miss America 2025 in the coming months. Past titleholders File:Brooke Poklemba.jpg, Brooke PoklembaMiss Maryland 2009 File:Destiny Clark (cropped).JPG, Destiny ClarkMiss Maryland 2016 File:Caitlynstupi.jpg, Caitlyn StupiMiss Maryland 2019 File:Lydia Sohn Miss Maryland (cropped).jpg, Lydia SohnMiss Maryland 2021 Results summary Results of Miss Maryland titleholders at the national Miss America pageants/competitions. The year in parentheses indicates the year of the national competition, not the year attached to the contestant's state title. * 1st runners-up: Virginia Cha (1990) * 3rd runners-up: Keri L. Schrader (2000), Marina Harrison (2004) * 4th runners-up: Camille Lewis (2003) * Top ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss Arkansas
The Miss Arkansas competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Arkansas in the Miss America pageant. Arkansas has won the Miss America title three times (1964, 1982, 2017). Camille Cathey of Wynne was crowned Miss Arkansas 2024 on June 15, 2024, at Robinson Center Auditorium in Little Rock. She will compete for the title of Miss America 2025. Gallery of past titleholders File:EudoraMoseby.jpg, File:AmberBennett.jpg, File:Miss Arkansas 2009 Singing.jpg, File:Alyse Eady.JPG, File:Savvy Shields (cropped).jpg, Results summary The following is a visual summary of the past results of Miss Arkansas 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: Donna Axum (1964), Elizabeth Ward (1982), Savvy Shields (2017) * 1st runners-up ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss Alabama
The Miss Alabama competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Alabama in the annual Miss America Competition. Alabama has won four Miss America titles: Abbie Stockard in 2025, Deidre Downs in 2005, Heather Whitestone (the first deaf woman to win the Miss America crown) in 1995, and Yolande Betbeze in 1951. Betbeze is also known as the contestant who refused to pose in a swimsuit, causing swimsuit sponsor Catalina Swimwear to pull out and ultimately start the Miss USA pageant. Abbie Stockard of Vestavia Hills was crowned Miss Alabama 2024 on June 29, 2024, at Samford University's Wright Center in Birmingham, Alabama. She competed for the title of Miss America 2025 and later won the title, succeeding Madison Marsh of Colorado. Gallery of past titleholders File:Yolande_Betbeze_NYWTS.jpg, Yolande Betbeze,Miss Alabama 1950 and Miss America 1951 File:Heatherphilippinevisit.jpg, Heather Whitestone,Miss Alabama 1994 and Miss America 1995 File:Deid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss New Hampshire
The Miss New Hampshire is the scholarship program that selects the representative for the state of New Hampshire in the Miss America competition. The Miss New Hampshire program was conducted by the '' Union Leader'' newspaper for more than 50 years. In the early years of Miss America, it was city newspapers that sponsored the young women to go to Atlantic City as the Miss America Organization originally allowed city titleholders to compete. The ''Union Leader'' conducted the pageant from 1947 until 2001. The newspaper held the pageant from at least 1985 to 2001 at the Manchester Central High School auditorium. In 2000, a non-profit corporation formed and was granted the license by the Miss America Organization to conduct the state program from 2002 through today. Originally run by former Miss Greater Derry local chapter leaders, the Miss New Hampshire Scholarship Program, Inc. is now a 501(c)(4) civic organization while the Miss New Hampshire Scholarship Foundation, which gra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss Colorado
The Miss Colorado competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Colorado in the Miss America pageant. The Colorado representative has won the Miss America crown on four occasions. Fort Smith, Arkansas native Madison Isabella Marsh of Colorado Springs, Colorado was crowned Miss Colorado 2023 on May 27, 2023, at The PACE Center in Parker, Colorado. She competed for and won the title of Miss America 2024 in Orlando, Florida on January 14, 2024. Gabrielle Gramont of Fort Collins was crowned Miss Colorado 2025 on June 14, 2025. She will compete for the title of Miss America 2026 in September 2025. Results summary The following is a visual summary of the past results of Miss Colorado 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: S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss South Carolina
The Miss South Carolina competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of South Carolina in the Miss America pageant. The pageant was first held in Myrtle Beach and moved to Greenville starting in 1958 and remained in that city until the 1990s. Spartanburg hosted the pageant in a few different venues until new leadership took over the organization and moved the pageant to Columbia, SC in 2011. The pageant was televised since the 1960s until the 1998 pageant. Televising was resumed with the 2000 pageant through 2006. The pageant returned to television in 2014. Two South Carolina women have become Miss America; Marian McKnight of Manning in 1957 and Kimberly Aiken of Columbia in 1994. Six more have been first runner-up at the national competition and another thirteen have placed in the Top Ten. The Miss South Carolina organization is the leading state pageant in the nation in scholarship money raised for young women- surpassing many much larger states. D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss Ohio
The Miss Ohio Scholarship Program selects the representative for the U.S. state of Ohio to compete for the title of Miss America. The pageant is held annually, during the "Miss Ohio Festival" week, at the historic 1,600 seat Ohio Theatre (Mansfield), Renaissance Theatre (originally named the Ohio Theatre) in Mansfield, Ohio, Mansfield. Ohio representatives have won the Miss America pageant six times, joining Miss California, California, and Miss Oklahoma, Oklahoma as the only states with six crowns. New York has the most winners with seven. Ohio is the only state to have a contestant who won the Miss America title twice: * 1922 Mary Katherine Campbell, Columbus, Ohio, Columbus* * 1923 Mary Katherine Campbell, Columbus, Ohio, Columbus* * 1938 Marilyn Meseke, Marion, Ohio, Marion * 1963 Jacquelyn Mayer, Sandusky, Ohio, Sandusky * 1972 Laurie Lea Schaefer, Bexley, Ohio, Bexley * 1978 Susan Perkins, Middletown, Ohio, Middletown ''*'' When city representatives were common at the na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss Wisconsin
The Miss Wisconsin competition is the pageant, held annually in Oshkosh, that selects the representative for the U.S. state of Wisconsin in the annual Miss America pageant. Wisconsin has won the Miss America crown three times (1973, 2012, and 2023). Montello native Mandi Jo Genord, 22, now of Beaver Dam was crowned Miss Wisconsin 2024 on June 22, 2024, in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. She competed in the 2025 Miss America competition on January 5, 2025 in Orlando, Florida and placed among the 11 semi-finalists. On September 17, 2024, the state pageant announced that the Miss Wisconsin pageant (as well as the Miss Wisconsin's Teen pageant) will be held in New Berlin, Wisconsin. This will mark the first time that Waukesha County will host the annual state pageants. Miss Wisconsin moved to Oshkosh in 1963 after four years being held in Kenosha. Miss Racine, Willow Ybre Newell of Racine became the first black woman to be crowned Miss Wisconsin; the first Miss Racine to win Miss Wisc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss Texas
The Miss Texas competition was founded in 1937 as a scholarship contest for young women. The winner represents Texas in the Miss America pageant; three winners have gone on to be crowned Miss America (but none since 1975). To become Miss Texas, a contestant must first win a local competition. A young woman may compete at the local and state level more than once, but may only compete in the national Miss America competition one time. Hundreds of women participate each year in the local pageants, culminating in the selection of local finalists who compete for the Miss Texas title each July. The state pageant was held in Fort Worth for 36 years before relocating to the University of Texas at Arlington's Texas Hall in 2009. In 2012, the pageant moved to the Allen Event Center in suburban Collin County. In 2014 the Miss Texas pageant began being held at the Eisemann Center for Performing Arts in Richardson, Texas. In 2010, Miss Texas celebrated its 75th anniversary, and Rand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss North Dakota
The Miss North Dakota competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of North Dakota in the Miss America pageant. The first Miss North Dakota to compete at Miss America was Kitty Page in 1949. In 2017, Cara Mund became the first North Dakotan to win the Miss America title, when she won the Miss America 2018 pageant. Sophia Richards of Hope was crowned Miss North Dakota 2024 on June 8, 2024, at Bakken Auditorium in Williston, North Dakota. She will compete for Miss America 2025. Gallery of past titleholders File:Roxana_Saberi_headshot.jpeg, File:Annette Olson.jpg, File:Cara Mund 2018.jpg, Results summary The following is a visual summary of the past results of Miss North Dakota 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 America: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
