Miss Kansas
Formation1924
TypeBeauty pageant
HeadquartersPratt
Location
Membership
Miss America
Official language
English
WebsiteOfficial website

The Miss Kansas competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the US state of Kansas in the Miss America pageant. Kansas has won the Miss America crown on three occasions.

Ayanna Hensley of Dodge City was crowned Miss Kansas 2022 on June 11, 2022, at Dennis Lesh Sports Arena at Pratt Community College in Pratt. She competed for the title of Miss America 2023 at the Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Connecticut in December 2022.

Results summary

The following is a visual summary of the past results of Miss Kansas 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: Deborah Irene Bryant (1966), Debra Dene Barnes (1968), Tara Dawn Holland (1997)
  • 2nd runners-up: Michelle Elaine Whitson (1980)
  • 3rd runners-up: Vera June Ralston (1948), Mary Ann McGrew (1957) (tie), Pamela McKelvy (1993)
  • Top 10: Sandy Rings (1972), Cynthia Sikes (1973), Lori Ann Bergen (1979), Robbin Lee Wasson (1992), Trisha Schaffer (1995), Amy Keller (1996), Megan Bushell (2005), Theresa Vail (2014)
  • Top 11: Courtney Wages (2024)
  • Top 15: Shirley Hargiss (1949), Annika Wooton (2020)
  • Top 16: Lucia Benton (1937)

Awards

Preliminary awards

Non-finalist awards

  • Non-finalist Talent: Sharon O'Neal (1960), Karen Raye Schwartz (1964), Karen Diane Smith (1975), Jill Dirks (1978), Laura Lynn Watters (1984), Kimberly Dugger (1991), Angelea Busby (2004), Annika Wooton (2020)

Other awards

Winners

  •   Declared as winner
  •   Ended as a runner-up
  •   Ended as a finalist or semi-finalist
Year Name Hometown Age Local Title Miss America Talent Placement at Miss America Special scholarships at Miss America Notes
2023 Courtney Wages[1] Wichita 25 Miss Southern Kansas Tap Dance Top 11 TBA
2022 Ayanna Hensley[2] Dodge City 21 Miss Kiowa County Dance
2021 Taylor Clark[3] St. John 21 Miss Augusta Drums Previously Miss Kansas' Outstanding Teen 2017[4]
2019–20[lower-alpha 1] Annika Wooton[6] Overland Park 25 Miss Wichita Speed Painting, "Free To Be" Original Poem while painting a portrait of Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg[7] Top 15[8] Social Impact Initiative Scholarship Award[9]

Non-Finalist Talent Award		 Competed for the Miss Kansas title a total of seven times[6]

Served two years due to COVID-19 pandemic[10]
2018 Hannah Klaassen[11] Arkansas City 19 Miss South Central Tap Dance, "The Greatest Show" from The Greatest Showman CMN Miracle Maker Award 1st runner-up
2017 Krystian Fish[12] Wichita 21 Miss Heart of the Midwest Vocal, "They Just Keep Moving the Line" from Smash Quality of Life Award Finalist[13]
2016 Kendall Schoenekase[14] Overland Park 22 Miss Johnson County Vocal, "Ain't No Sunshine" CMN Miracle Maker Award 2nd runner-up[15]

Quality of Life Award 1st runner-up[15]

STEM Scholarship Award[15]		 4th runner-up at Miss Kansas Teen USA 2011 competition[16]
2015 Hannah Wagner Wichita 19 Miss Augusta Ballet en Pointe, Swan Lake
2014 Amanda Sasek Moberly, MO 23 Miss Greater Wichita Vocal, "I Don't Know My Own Strength"
2013 Theresa Vail Manhattan 22 Miss Leavenworth County Vocal, "Nessun Dorma" Top 10 America's Choice First Miss America contestant to display tattoos in the swimsuit competition[17][18]
2012 Sloane Lewis Norwich 22 Miss Wooded Hills Self-arranged Piano, "River Storm"
2011 Carissa Kelley[19] Winfield 24 Dance, "Rolling in the Deep" Previously Miss Kansas Teen USA 2004
2010 Lauren Werhan Wichita 20 Miss Southwest Ballet en Pointe, "Asturias"
2009 Becki Ronen Buhler 20 Miss Flint Hills Classical Trumpet, "Stars in a Velvety Sky"
2008 Emily Deaver Augusta 19 Miss Augusta Piano / Vocal, "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?"
2007 Alyssa George[20] Minneapolis 21 Miss Sedgwick County Classical Piano
2006 Michelle Walthers Towanda 21 Miss Augusta Vocal, "Shy" from Once Upon a Mattress
2005 Adrienne Rosel Liberal 23 Miss Wichita Theatrical Vocal / Dance, "America" from West Side Story Quality of Life Award Finalist
2004 Megan Bushell Wichita 22 Miss Wheat Capital Vocal, "When you Say you Love Me" Top 10 Quality of Life Award Finalist
2003 Angelea Busby Lenexa 21 Miss Cheney Lake Interpretive Baton Twirling / Dance, Theme from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves Non-finalist Talent Award
2002 Jeanne Anne Schroeder Hutchinson 24 Miss Chisholm Trail Classical Vocal, "Time to Say Goodbye"
2001 Kimberlee Grice Ulysses 23 Miss Kaw Valley Vocal, "At Last" Eleanor "Big Mama" Andrews Performing Arts Award
2000 Amy Lea Shaw Derby 22 Miss Arkansas Valley Classical Piano, "Prelude, Op. 23, No. 5" by Rachmaninoff
1999 Leah Darby 21 Miss Derby Vocal "I Dreamed a Dream" from Les Misérables
1998 Jennifer Vannatta Leawood 24 Miss Greater Kansas City Vocal, "Le Jazz Hot" from Victor/Victoria Co-director of the Arkansas, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma state pageants for the Miss USA organization[21]

Married to JC Fisher of The Texas Tenors[21]
1997 Lesley Moss Hoxie 24 Vocal, "You'll Have to Swing It"
1996 Jennifer Parks Wichita Miss Arkansas Valley Did not compete; originally 3rd runner-up, later assumed title after Holland won Miss America 1997 when the other runners-up declined to take the title
Tara Dawn Holland Overland Park 23 Miss Flint Hills Classical Vocal, "Où Va la Jeune Hindoue" from Lakmé Winner Preliminary Swimsuit Award

Quality of Life Award 1st runner-up		 Previously National Sweetheart 1995 as Miss Florida
1995 Amy Keller Great Bend 24 Miss Heartland Classical Vocal, "Quando me'n vo'" Top 10 Preliminary Swimsuit Award
1994 Trisha Schaffer Liberal 22 Miss Southwest Popular Vocal, "Orange Colored Sky" Top 10 Preliminary Talent Award
1993 Lori Minnix Lawrence 24 Miss KU/Lawrence Classical Piano "Piano Concerto No. 1 in B Flat Minor" by Tchaikovsky
1992 Pamela McKelvy Kansas City 24 Miss Greater Kansas City Popular Vocal, "I Am Changing" 3rd runner-up Preliminary Talent Award
1991 Robbin Lee Wasson Lenexa 21 Miss Greater Kansas City Vocal Medley, "How Long Has This Been Going On?" & "It's a Miracle" Top 10
1990 Kimberly Dugger Wichita 22 Miss Wichita Semi-classical Vocal, "Love Is Where you Find It" Non-finalist Talent Award
1989 Jennifer Lyn Hedrick Derby 22 Miss Fort Scott Flute, "Carmen Fantasy" by Georges Bizet and François Borne
1988 Candice Cae Pyle Dodge City 20 Miss Dodge City Vocal, "Blue Moon"
1987 Sherri Lee Mayer Brewster 26 Miss Harvey County Dramatic Interpretation, "Clear Glass Marbles" from Talking With...
1986 Heather Lynn Clark Benton 23 Miss Wichita Vocal & Sign Language, "I'll Never Say Goodbye"
1985 Carolyn Jo Kirgis Salina 25 Miss Blue Stem Vocal, "Our Love Is Here to Stay" Carolyn Jo Kirgis Johnson passed away in Phillipsburg, Kansas of complications with Multiple Sclerosis on July 24, 2022, at age 61.
1984 Nancy Lee Cobb Wichita 20 Miss Lawrence Piano / Vocal, "I Love New Orleans Music"
1983 Laura Lynn Watters[22] Colby 22 Miss Troia-Thomas County Trumpet Medley, "Sugar Blues" & "Wood Chopper's Ball" Non-finalist Talent Award
1982 Lisa Marie Berwick Valley Center 21 Miss Wheatland Vocal, "Battle Hymn of the Republic"
1981 Dawn Holmstrom Wichita 20 Miss Wichita Vocal Medley, "My Man" & "Happy Days Are Here Again"
1980 K. Leann Folsom 21 Miss Center City Piano / Vocal, "Kiss Me in the Rain"
1979 Michelle Elaine Whitson Mission 21 Miss Topeka Harp, "Never on Sunday" 2nd runner-up Previously National Sweetheart 1978
1978 Lori Ann Bergen Salina 20 Miss Salina Violin, "Csárdás" & "Orange Blossom Special" Top 10 Preliminary Talent Award
1977 Jill Dirks Wichita 22 Miss Wichita Vocal, "Open Your Heart" Non-finalist Talent Award
1976 Linda Hall Hill City 21 Miss Frontier Piano, Theme from The Apartment Wife of former United States Senator Tom Daschle
1975 Jana Salmans[23] Hanston 20 Miss Dodge City Vocal, "Follow Me"
1974 Karen Smith Shawnee 18 Miss Shawnee Jazz / Acrobatic Dance, "The Entertainer" Non-finalist Talent Award

Preliminary Swimsuit Award
1973 Jane Schulte Hays 21 Miss Fort Hays State College Vocal Medley, "Happiest Girl in the Whole USA" & "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face"
1972 Cynthia Sikes Coffeyville 18 Miss Wichita Vocal, "Fame" Top 10 Preliminary Swimsuit Award Starred as Dr. Annie Canavero on St. Elsewhere
1971 Sandy Rings Topeka 20 Miss Topeka Vocal / Ventriloquism, "Toyland" Top 10 Preliminary Talent Award
1970 Linda Susan Edds Manhattan 21 Miss Manhattan Popular Vocal, "The Windmills of Your Mind"
1969 Margo Sue Schroeder Hillsboro 18 Miss Marion County Fair Piano, "Sunny"
1968 Jane Kathryn Bair Parsons 18 Miss Kansas State College of Pittsburg Ballet Interpretation, "My Friend the Sea"
1967 Kandee Kae Klein Tribune Miss Garden City Did not compete; later assumed the title after Barnes won Miss America 1968
Debra Dene Barnes Moran 20 Miss Kansas State College of Pittsburg Piano, "Born Free" Winner Preliminary Swimsuit Award
1966 Betty Louise Fox Emporia 20 Miss Emporia Popular Vocal Medley, "A Foggy Day" & "The Girl from Ipanema"
1965 Mimi Frink Lawrence Miss Eudora Did not compete; later assumed the title after Bryant won Miss America 1966
Deborah Irene Bryant Overland Park 19 Miss Overland Park Dramatic Interpretation, "The Miserable Miserliness of Midas Moneybags" Winner Preliminary Swimsuit Award Previously Miss Kansas World 1963 and Top 7 finalist at Miss USA World 1963.
1964 Catherine Bergstrom Kansas City 21 Miss Lawrence N/A 1st runner-up at Miss Kansas 1964 pageant

Assumed title after Savage was killed in an auto accident
Sharon Margene Savage Florence 20 Miss Marion County Fair Vocal, "Johnny One Note" & "Ritorna Vincitor" from Aida During her reign she was killed in an auto accident near Peabody, Kansas
1963 Karen Raye Schwartz Pratt 20 Miss Wichita Classical Vocal, "Voi la Sapete" from Cavalleria rusticana Non-finalist Talent Award
1962 Beverly June Wood Prairie Village 18 Miss Kansas City Charleston Dance
1961 Carolyn Jane Parkinson Scott City 20 Miss Lawrence Musical Reading, "Hello Kansas"
1960 Gayla Leigh Shoemake El Dorado 19 Miss El Dorado Original Dramatic Interpretation, "Rude Awakening"
1959 Sharon O'Neal Kansas City 18 Miss Kansas City Dramatic Interpretation Non-finalist Talent Award
1958 Sharon Whitacre Mission 18 Accordion, "3rd Movement of Concerto in A" by Pietro Deiro
1957 Georgiana Rundle Axtell 21 Miss Kansas State Vocal, "Habanera" & "Getting to Know You"
1956 Mary Ann McGrew Wellington 19 Miss Lawrence Dramatic Reading, "Understanding Others" 3rd runner-up (tie)
1955 Gail White Arkansas City Piano
1954 Phyllis Danielson Wichita Vocal
1953 Joanne Milnar Hutchinson 23 Water Ballet
1952 Kay Ann Goforth McPherson Vocal / Dance
1951 No Kansas representative at Miss America pageant[24]
1950 Anabel Baker Wichita Dramatic Monologue from Macbeth
1949 Shirley Hargiss Topeka Vocal, "Cecilia On a See-Saw" Top 15
1948 Vera June Ralston Wichita 18 Miss Wichita Oratory 3rd runner-up Preliminary Swimsuit Award Better known as Vera Miles, whose acting career spanned 45 years
1947 Ruth Ellen Richmond Fort Scott Miss Pittsburg Vocal, "Wonderful One"
1946 Joyce Blakemore Liberal
1945
No Kansas representative at Miss America pageant[25]
1944 Grace Louise Pittman Wichita
1943 No Kansas representative at Miss America pageant[26][27][28][29]
1942
1941
1940
1939 Rosemary Winslow Salina
1938 Blanche Webb Humboldt
1937 Lucia Benton Norton Top 16
1936 No Kansas representative at Miss America pageant[30][31]
1935
1934 No national pageant was held[32]
1933 Pauline Sayre 23
1932 No national pageants were held[32]
1931
1930
1929
1928
1927 Mildred Orr Miss Wichita No Miss Kansas

Competed as Miss Wichita at Miss America pageant
1926 Ruth Richardson
1925 Wildeana Withers
1924 Donna Frye
1923 No Kansas representative at Miss America pageant[33][34][35]
1922
1921

Notes

  1. ↑ Titleholder extended to a full year in 2020 after state and national pageants postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[5]

References

  1. ↑ KWCH Staff (June 10, 2023). "Wichita woman crowned in Miss Kansas 2023". 12 News. Retrieved June 11, 2023.
  2. ↑ Stultz, Jennifer (June 13, 2022). "Miss Kansas 2022: Hensley credits difficult upbringing, faith in God and helpful connections for success on the 2022 Miss Kansas stage". The Pratt Tribune. Retrieved June 14, 2022.
  3. ↑ KWCH Staff. "4You: Miss Kansas has been crowned, the competition gives out nearly $58,000 in scholarships". www.kwch.com. Retrieved 2021-07-18.
  4. ↑ Rose, Gale. "Taylor Clark is 2017 Miss Kansas Outstanding Teen". Pratt Tribune. Retrieved 2021-07-10.
  5. ↑ Kuperinksy, Amy (May 8, 2020). "Miss America postpones pageant until 2021, N.J. pageant still set for September". Press of Atlantic City.
  6. 1 2 "Miss Wichita crowned the new Miss Kansas". KWCH News. June 8, 2019.
  7. ↑ Painting by Annika Wooton
  8. ↑ "Miss America 2020 Pageant: Top 15 Contestants Revealed LIVE". Heavy.com. December 19, 2019.
  9. ↑ "Miss America 2020 Scholarship Award Winners Announced". Miss America Organization. December 19, 2019.
  10. ↑ "Miss Kansas competitions postponed until 2021". KSN-TV. 2020-05-19. Retrieved 2022-05-27.
  11. ↑ Rose, Gale (June 9, 2018). "Hannah Klaassen of Arkansas City is Miss Kansas 2018". Pratt Tribune.
  12. ↑ "Krystian Fish is Miss Kansas 2017". Pratt Tribune. June 10, 2017.
  13. ↑ Frazier, Terry Cowart (August 31, 2017). "Miss Mississippi's platform recognized at Miss America pageant". The Vicksburg Post.
  14. ↑ Stewart, Adam (June 12, 2016). "Crash prompted Miss Kansas' campaign". The Hutchinson News.
  15. 1 2 3 "The 2017 Academy of Honor, Quality of Life, STEM, & Women in Business Scholarship Recipients Honored On Stage". Miss America Organization. September 11, 2016.
  16. ↑ "Miss Kansas USA & Teen USA pageant results". Pageant Update. Retrieved August 12, 2019.
  17. ↑ Tattooed Kan. Guard sergeant is Miss America contestant
  18. ↑ Miss Kansas Bares Her Tattoos
  19. ↑ "Pageant newcomer earns Miss Kansas title". Pratt Tribune. June 11, 2011. Archived from the original on June 17, 2011.
  20. ↑ Britt, Karrey (June 12, 2007). "New Miss Kansas seeks winning streak". Lawrence Journal-World.
  21. 1 2 "Staff". Vanbros and Associates. Retrieved November 6, 2019.
  22. ↑ "Colby Woman Crowned Miss Kansas, will compete for Miss America Title". Salina Journal. July 17, 1983.
  23. ↑ "Hanston Lass Wins Pageant". Hutchinson News. July 13, 1975.
  24. ↑ "1952 Candidates". Miss America.
  25. ↑ "1945 Candidates". Miss America.
  26. ↑ "1943 Candidates". Miss America.
  27. ↑ "1942 Candidates". Miss America.
  28. ↑ "1941 Candidates". Miss America.
  29. ↑ "1940 Candidates". Miss America.
  30. ↑ "1936 Candidates". Miss America.
  31. ↑ "1935 Candidates". Miss America.
  32. 1 2 "Miss America Timeline: 1901–1950". PBS.
  33. ↑ "1923 Candidates". Miss America.
  34. ↑ "1922 Candidates". Miss America.
  35. ↑ "1921 Candidates". Miss America.
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