Jordyn Colao is an American

beauty pageant A beauty pageant is a competition that has traditionally focused on judging and ranking the Physical attractiveness, physical attributes of the contestants. Pageants have now evolved to include inner beauty, with criteria covering judging of Per ...

titleholder from Millcreek Township, Pennsylvania who was named

Miss Pennsylvania The Miss Pennsylvania competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Pennsylvania in the Miss America pageant. Pennsylvania, including early years' city representatives, has won the Miss America crown on five occasi ...

2012.

Biography

She won the title of Miss Pennsylvania on May 26, 2012, when she received her crown from outgoing titleholder Juliann Sheldon. Colao’s platform, “Heart to Heart – Cardiovascular Disease Prevention” was inspired by her loss of three grandparents to heart disease. Her competition talent was

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. Colao graduated magna cum laude from

Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State or PSU) is a public state-related land-grant research university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsylvania. Founded in 1855 as the Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania, Penn State becam ...

in the spring of 2012 with a degree in bio-behavioral health.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Colao, Jordyn Miss America 2013 delegates Living people People from Erie County, Pennsylvania Pennsylvania State University alumni American beauty pageant winners Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people)