Miss North Carolina USA

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Miss North Carolina USA
Formation1952
Type Beauty pageant
Headquarters Aiken
Location
Membership Miss USA
Official language
English
Key people
Janice McDonald
Paula Miles
Website Official website

The Miss North Carolina USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state North Carolina in the Miss USA pageant. This state is part of the RPM Productions group since 1992.

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In 2005, Miss North Carolina USA Chelsea Cooley won the Miss USA crown and placed in the top 10 at Miss Universe. Cooley is the first former Miss North Carolina Teen USA to win the Miss title, although not the first to have competed at Miss Teen USA. The second Miss North Carolina Teen USA to win the Miss title was Erin O'Kelley in 2007. She went on to place in the top 15 at Miss USA 2007. Similar to the Miss Utah USA titleholders, both Cooley and Kelley placed at Miss USA, eclipsing their teen performances. In 2009, Kristen Dalton became the second woman from North Carolina to be crowned Miss USA. In 2019, Cheslie Kryst became the third woman from the state to win Miss USA. In both occasions, they placed top 10 on their respective Miss Universe pageants. The most recent placement was Jordyn McKey placing Top 20 in 2023.

North Carolina is currently third tied with Idaho in number of former teens have competed in this pageant: eight, after Indiana and Virginia, including three competed at Rhode Island, Vermont and Virginia, respectively. In addition, two others have also competed at Miss America.

In 2019 (billed as 2020 pageant), Madeline Delp was the first woman in a wheelchair to win the top 10 finalists in a statewide Miss USA pageant. [1]

McKenzie Hansley of Charlotte was crowned Miss North Carolina USA 2024 on June 15, 2024, at North Charleston Coliseum & Performing Arts Center in North Charleston. She will represent North Carolina at Miss USA 2024.

Results summary

Placements

North Carolina holds a record of 22 placements at Miss USA.

Awards

Winners

Color key
YearNameHometownAge [b] Local titlePlacement at Miss USASpecial awards at Miss USANotes
2024 McKenzie Hansley Charlotte 24Miss South ParkTop 20
2023 Jordyn McKey Charlotte 25Miss UptownTop 20
2022 Morgan Romano Concord 23Miss Queen City1st runner-up
2021 Madison Bryant Fayetteville 24Miss MetrolinaTop 8
2020 Jane Axhoj Waxhaw 22Miss Lake Wylie
2019 Laura Little [2] Charlotte 23Miss Mount Hollydid not compete
  • Originally first runner-up, assumed the title when Cheslie Kryst won Miss USA
  • Charlotte Honey Bees dancer
  • Sister of Courtney Little, Miss Teen North Carolina United States 2017
Cheslie Kryst† Charlotte 27Miss MetrolinaMiss USA 2019
2018 Caelynn Miller-Keyes Asheville 22Miss Asheville1st runner-up
2017 Kaitlin "Katie" Coble Charlotte 26Miss Weddington
2016 Devin Gant Charlotte 24Miss HarrisburgOriginally 1st runner-up, assumed the title after Allie Dunn's resignation and competed in Miss USA [3]
Allison "Allie" Dunn Stallings 21Miss Stallingsdid not competeResigned the title a couple of weeks before the Miss USA 2016 pageant due to illness
2015 Julia Dalton Wilmington 23Miss Wilmington
2014 Olivia Olvera Fayetteville 26Miss Fayetteville
2013 Ashley Love-Mills [ citation needed ] Raleigh 24Miss Raleigh DurhamTop 10
2012 Sydney Perry Wilmington 21Miss Wilmington
2011 Brittany York Wilmington 22
2010 Nadia Moffett High Point 24
2009 Kristen Dalton Wilmington 21Miss USA 2009
2008 Andrea Duke Hendersonville 25Contestant at National Sweetheart 2006
2007 Erin O'Kelley Asheville 21Top 15
2006 Samantha Holvey Buies Creek/
Glenville, WV 		20On Oct. 14, 2016 Holvey told CNN that Donald Trump personally inspected each woman prior to the contest [4]
2005 Chelsea Cooley Charlotte 21Miss USA 2005
2004 Ashley Puleo Pinehurst 252nd runner-upSister of Laura Puleo, Miss Virginia USA 2015
2003 Kristen Luneberg Durham 22
2002 Alison English Archdale 22
2001 Monica Palumbo Charlotte 19Miss Congeniality
2000 Portia Johnson Greensboro 24
1999 Joy Hall Sanford 24
1998 Vera Morris Nashville 23Miss Congeniality
1997 Crystal McLaurin-ConeyDurham
1996 Jessica McMinn Tuxedo
1995 Michelle Mauney Stanley
1994 Lynn Jenkins Gastonia 262nd runner-up
1993 Christa Tyson Monroe
1992 Tess Elliott High Point 20Top 11Died in a sky-diving accident only weeks after the conclusion of her reign [5]
1991 Pat Arnold Chapel Hill 21Top 6Miss Photogenic
1990 Altman AllenShelby
1989Jacqueline PadgetteHobgood
1988Tammy TolarFayetteville
1987Donna Wilson Davidson
1986Rhonda Nobles Fayetteville 20Top 10
1985Kate Kenney Raleigh
1984Cookie Noak Hickory 23Top 10
1983Allison Payge Pinson Mooresville
1982Jeannie Boger Sanford Mother of Miss USA 2009 Kristen Dalton (Miss North Carolina USA 2009) and Miss North Carolina Teen USA 2008 Julia Dalton (second runner-up at Miss Teen USA 2008)
1981Lisa Swift Southport
1980Lori Boggs Kannapolis
1979Dianne JamersonAsheville24Top 12
1978Kathryn NormanCharlotte
1977 Vikki Verbyla Lenoir
1976Dianne Bowen Windsor
1975Constance Dorn Kinston 212nd runner-up
1974Marcia Patrice BurtonHickory214th runner-up
1973Vivian CraigStanley
1972Deborah FallsVale21Top 12
1971Mary RudroffWiston-Salem
1970Susan BodsfordRamseur
1969Faye BassDurham19Received United Artist Special Talent Award
1968Kelli MooreRaleigh
1967Patti EffronJacksonville
1966Brenda MoyeFountain
1965Sandra FarmerGreensboro
1964Did not compete
1963Trudy CauthenNewton
1962Brenda SmithCharlotte
1961Marie ClyburnCharlotte
1960Lyndia TarltonWingate193rd runner-up
1959Peggy BrownSunbury
1958Carol EdwardsElizabeth City
1957Peggy DennisLilesville
1956Shirley BagwellRaleigh18Top 15
1955Mary RatliffeWadesboro
1954Ann PickettCharlotte
1953Libby WalkerWilton
1952Doris StanleyGreensboro

Notes

  1. ↑ Morgan Romano was originally 1st runner-up in Miss USA 2022 but assumed title after the winner relinquished her title due to winning Miss Universe 2022.
  2. ↑ Age at the time of the Miss USA pageant

References

  1. ↑ "After surviving a coma, woman in wheelchair makes beauty pageant history". TODAY.com. 13 November 2019. Retrieved 2019-11-14.
  2. ↑ "Miss USA returns to Charlotte, advocates for justice". WSOC. May 13, 2019. Retrieved May 14, 2019.
  3. ↑ Levans, Katie (June 3, 2016). "Illness for Miss North Carolina lands a Charlotte-area runner-up in her place days before the Miss USA Pageant". Charlotte Agenda. Retrieved July 2, 2019.
  4. ↑ Scott Zamost, CNN, October 13, 2016, Ex-contestant: Trump inspected each woman before pageant, Retrieved October 14, 2016, "...He would step in front of each girl and look you over from head to toe like we were just meat ... You know when a gross guy at the bar is checking you out? It's that feeling..." -- Samantha Holvey
  5. ↑ "1992 Miss North Carolina USA Killed in Skydiving Accident". The Associated Press. 1992-09-22.
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