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.
On January 21, 2024, state pageant first runner-up Sarah Jean Swift of Castle Pines was announced as the new Miss Colorado 2023. She will assume the state title and serve as the Miss Colorado 2023 titleholder until Miss Colorado 2024 is chosen on July 14, 2024.
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.
First active-duty officer and graduate of a military service academy to win Miss Colorado
First active-duty officer and graduate of a military service academy to win Miss America. It was announced in January 2024, a week after her Miss America victory, that Madison Isabella Marsh and her boyfriend, Air Force pilot trainee Walker Morris, got engaged.
↑ Pageant cancelled after state and national pageants postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic,[2] but duties to be "performed by...women in the Forever Miss Colorado Sisterhood, as needed..."[3]
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