Any Given Pageant Day…

In order to survive as a pageant contestant you must realize one very important truth- discontinuity is the only continuity of pageants! On a different day with just one judge on the panel being different, a different winner would probably emerge from the same group of contestants! Taken from the football movie Any Given Sunday, we jokingly say “any given pageant day…”

So, with this truth in mind, I’ve copied some statistics that someone anonymously posted on a Miss America message board. Here is how the First Runners-up of the 2006 state pageants have done this year:

Indiana: NICOLE RASH – 2007 Miss Indiana
Massachusetts: VALERIE AMARAL – 2007 Miss Massachusetts
Montana: KRISTEN MANTOOTH – 2007 Miss Montana
Nebraska: ASHLEY BAUER – 2007 Miss Nebraska
North Dakota: ASHLEY YOUNG – 2007 Miss North Dakota
Oklahoma: LINDSEY MILLER – Reigning Miss Oklahoma

Colorado: KRYSTAL SPURR – 2007 1st RU
Georgia: KELLY BRADSHAW – 2007 1st RU
Michigan: GINA VALO – 2007 1st RU
Tennessee: AINSLEY REAGAN – 2007 1st RU
Vermont: MAGGIE REVILLA – 2007 1st RU

Louisiana: BLAIR ABENE – 2007 2nd RU
Rhode Island: FRANCESCA SIMONE – 2007 2nd RU
Alabama: KATIE BOYD – 2007 3rd RU
New Hampshire: KRISTIN FINN – 2007 3rd RU
Idaho: ERIN WEBSTER – 2007 4TH RU

Florida: MEGAN CLEMENTI – 2007 Top 10
Kansas: ALEXANDRA BLASI – 2007 Top 10
Missouri: ERIN BELL – 2007 Top 10
Pennsylvania: ALYCIA McCULLOUGH – 2007 Top 10

Illinois: JULIANNE LUCIK – 2007 NonFinalist
Ohio: BECKY MINGER – 2007 NonFinalist
Virginia: LAUREN COLLIER – 2007 NonFinalist

District-of-Columbia: CHELSEA RODGERS – TBA
Kentucky: ASHLEY MILLER – TBA
Nevada: CALECHE MANOR – TBA
Texas: MOLLY HAZLETT – TBA
Washington: ELYSE UMEMOTO – TBA

Did Not Compete:
Alaska: RACHEL WARBELOW
Arizona: DANIELLE LEE
Arkansas: STEPHANIE DeCLERK
California: ANGEL BLUE (Competing in Nevada this year)
Connecticut: KARA MITCHELL
Delaware: AMBER KNIGHT
Hawaii: ANGELA EVERHART
Iowa: ALICIA WHITE
Maine: KATELYN PARKER
Maryland: LAURA KELLY
Minnesota: PAMELA CHAMPAN
Mississippi: LACEY COFIELD
New Jersey: JAMIE MAGLIETTA
New Mexico: MONICA MITCHELL
New York: STEPHANIE QUIMBY
North Carolina: ANDREA DUKE
Oregon: CC BARBER
South Carolina: ANGELA WALKER
South Dakota: KARIE PALLANSCH
Utah: CARLY TOOKE
Virgin Islands: LA'STARR WATLEY
West Virginia: GABRIELLE COLUMBO
Wisconsin: CAITLIN MORRALL (Reigning Miss Wisconsin USA; Top 15 finalist at Miss USA)
Wyoming: KRISTIE SWANSON

Again, this was posted anonymously and I don’t have the time to double check the accuracy. I am fairly confident this list is correct and I find it extremely interesting. It proves you just never know what may happen.

If you can withstand the emotional heartache of “any given pageant” you may eventually come out ahead. For example, Miss Texas USA, Crystal Stewart, was finally crowned this weekend on her SIXTH TRY!