Hailey Colborn (born October 10, 2000) is an American beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned

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. She is the second entrant from Kansas to win the title after

Keylee Sue Sanders Keylee Sue Sanders (born July 29, 1977) is an American beauty queen who was Miss Kansas Teen USA and Miss Teen USA 1995. Sanders first won the Miss Kansas Teen USA title in October 1994. In August 1995 she was crowned Miss Teen USA in the nat ...

won

Miss Teen USA 1995 Miss Teen USA 1995, the 13th Miss Teen USA pageant, was televised live from the Century II Convention Center in Wichita, Kansas on 15 August 1995. At the conclusion of the final competition, Keylee Sue Sanders of Kansas was crowned by outgo ...

Life and career

Early life

Colborn was born in

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to parents Kevin and Denise Colborn, and trained in

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for 14 years. While a student, she started the mentorship program SelfPosi, which she uses to travel to middle schools to talk to girls about the importance of self-love. Colborn graduated from

Wichita Northwest High School Wichita Northwest High School, known locally as Northwest High, is a public secondary school in Wichita, Kansas, United States. It is operated by Wichita USD 259 school district and serves 1,320 students in grades 9 to 12. History The school op ...

in 2018, and is attending

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as a

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student. While in high school, she was

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Pageantry

In 2017, Colborn competed in the Miss Kansas Teen USA 2018 competition, representing Greater Wichita. She went on to win the competition, and was crowned Miss Kansas Teen USA 2018 by outgoing titleholder Malerie Moore. She had previously competed in the Miss Kansas' Outstanding Teen 2016 competition, where she was the first runner-up and a finalist in the fitness and talent categories. As Miss Kansas Teen USA 2018, Colborn earned the right to represent Kansas at the

competition in Shreveport, Louisiana. She competed in the final on May 18, 2018 in

Hirsch Memorial Coliseum Hirsch Memorial Coliseum is 10,000-seat multi-purpose arena in Shreveport, Louisiana, designed by the late local architect Edward F. Neild Jr. (1908–1958) who, with his father in 1937, had designed the Louisiana State Exhibit Museum in Shreve ...

, and was crowned the winner, besting first runner-up Kirby Elizabeth Self of

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. She is the second entrant from Kansas to win the crown. Colborn completed her reign on April 28, 2019, after crowning

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as her successor at the

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competition in

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References

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