Miss Maryland World

Last updated
Miss Maryland World
Formation1951
Type Beauty pageant
Headquarters Essex
Location
Membership Miss World America (1951–present)
Official language
English
State Director
Faith Hassou
Website Official Website

The Miss Maryland World competition is a beauty pageant that selects the representative for Maryland in the Miss World America pageant. [1] [2] The current Miss Maryland World is Meera Victoria Pick

Contents

Winners

Color key
YearNameHometownAge
[notes 1]
Placement at Miss World AmericaSpecial awards at Miss World AmericaNotes
2024 Meera Victoria PickOlney17She is a health advocate, philanthropist, and is a coauthor of Heart Healthy Fun Food with her Aunt Jahnavi.
2020Carissa Wu [3] 20
2019Kenyatta Beazer [4] Baltimore 22Top 25
2018did not compete
2017Mariela Pepin Severn 21Top 10Previously Miss Maryland Teen USA 2014 and unplaced at Miss Teen USA 2014. Later Miss Maryland USA 2019 and Top 10 finalist at Miss USA 2019.
Later Miss Luquillo World 2022 and competed for Miss World Puerto Rico 2022
Chelsea Boone Glenn Dale 26
2016 Christina Denny Baltimore 25Top 12Previously Miss Maryland 2013 and Miss Maryland USA 2016. Top 10 semi-finalist at Miss America 2014 and unplaced at Miss USA 2016.
Sujita Basnet Baltimore 23Top 12
Tarese Taylor Baltimore 25Top 12People's Choice
Ruby Johnson Annapolis 19Previously Miss Earth Maryland 2015 and a finalist at Miss Earth United States 2015.
2015Syanne Centeno [5] Hughesville 23Top 12
Miss Maryland United States 2014
2014 Amanda Ross [6] Baltimore 23
Miss Maryland World
2013No titleholders as Miss World America was designated from 2006 to 2013.
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005No known representatives from Maryland from 2003 to 2005.
2004
2003
2002No titleholders as Miss World America was designated from 1995 to 2002.
2001
2000
1999
1998
1997
1996
1995
1994 Jennifer Kelly
1993Michelle Robert
1992Jeanne Hangliter
Miss Maryland USA 1981-1991
1991 Lisa Marie Lawson Crofton
1990 Julie Stanford Edgewater Previously Miss Maryland Teen USA 1986
1989 Jackie Carroll Gaithersburg
1988 Rowanne Brewer Silver Spring 23Top 10 Miss Photogenic Married rock musician Jani Lane
1987 Michelle Snow Germantown
1986 Kelly Koehler Churchton
1985 Christine Marie Baldwin
1984 Betsy Cook* Bethesda
1983 Shawn Keller Ashton
1982 Angie Boyer Dunkirk 18Top 12
1981 Linda Susan Lambert Baltimore 22Top 12
Miss Maryland World
1980 Lori Estep Washington, D.C. Later Miss District of Columbia USA 1982 and contestant at Miss USA 1982.
1979 Sheri Clineman
1978 Celeste Woschke
1977 Lydia Vuynovich
1976 Amy Whiting
1975 Elizabeth Erinn Pittengee
1974 Deborah Lynn Goode
1973 Bonnie Joy BidlackTop 16
1972 Pia Nancy Canzani Baltimore 23Later Miss American Beauty 1973 (Miss U.S. International 1973). Competed at Miss International 1973 as Miss American Beauty ( USA ).
1971 Gail SomervilleTop 18
1970 Carlotta V. Moore
1969 Paulette Reck Perry Hall 212nd Runner-UpPreviously Miss Maryland USA 1968 and 1st Runner-Up at Miss USA 1968.
1968 Evelyn Everhart
1967 Paula Jean MartinTop 15
1966 Unknown
1965 Sharon Jane Dennis
1964 Laurie MillsCompeted as Maryland
Gloria Mathis Annapolis Competed as Annapolis, Maryland
1963 Kathy Alexander Baltimore Competed as Baltimore, Maryland
  • No official Miss Maryland World titleholder
  • Kathy Alexander was Miss Baltimore, MD World
1962 Betsy Reeves
1961 Diane Dolores White Baltimore 263rd Runner-UpPreviously Miss Maryland USA 1959 and Top 15 semi-finalist at Miss USA 1959.
1960 Carolyn Clark
1959No known representatives from Maryland in 1958 & 1959.
1958
Miss Maryland USA 1953-1957
1957 Mary Leona Gage* Glen Burnie 18Miss USA 1957
  • Dethroned after it was discovered she was married and had two children [7]
1956 Charlene Holt* Annapolis 28Top 15
1955 Gloria Ruth King Baltimore
1954 Barbara Eschenburg Berlin Top 21Later Disqualified (under age)
1953 Diane Gale Durham Silver Spring
Miss Maryland World
1952No known representatives from Maryland in 1951 & 1952.
1951
Notes to table
  1. Age at the time of the Miss World America pageant

References

  1. "Miss World USA Pageant". Archived from the original on 2014-10-21. Retrieved 2014-12-19.
  2. The American representatives to Miss World 1978-1994
  3. "Miss World America Maryland 2020 – Miss World America" . Retrieved 2020-09-03.
  4. "Miss World America - Maryland".
  5. "Miss Maryland World 2015 Syanne Centeno - YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved 2020-08-31.
  6. "Former MSU Cheerleader Crowned Miss Maryland". Morgan State University Athletics. Retrieved 2020-08-31.
  7. Woestendiek, John (10 April 2005). "The long, unhappy pageant of Mary Leona Gage". The Baltimore Sun.