Miss North Carolina World

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Miss North Carolina World
Formation1951
Type Beauty pageant
Headquarters Fayetteville
Location
Membership Miss World America (1951–present)
Official language
English
State Director
Kathy Keefe Jensen
Website Official Website

The Miss North Carolina World competition is a beauty pageant that selects the representative for North Carolina in the Miss World America pageant. [1] [2]

Contents

The current Miss North Carolina World is Tisha Abdul of Concord, North Carolina.

Winners

Color key
YearNameHometownAge
[notes 1]
Placement at Miss World AmericaSpecial awards at Miss World AmericaNotes
2025TBATBATBATBA
2023Tisha AbdulConcord19Beauty With A Purpose Ambassador for the Northeast Region of the United States
2019Peyton Brown [3] Dunn 182nd Runner-Up1st Runner-Up at Miss North Carolina's Outstanding Teen 2018 [4]
Later Miss North Carolina Teen USA 2020.
2018Shivali Patel Raleigh 212nd Runner-Up
Sania Laraib Raleigh 21Top 10
2017Shivali Patel Raleigh 20Top 16
Nicole Owens Lumberton 19
2016 Shivali Patel Raleigh 191st Runner-UpPreviously NAMiss North Carolina Jr. Teen 2011 and 2nd Runner-Up at NAM Jr. Teen 2011.
2015Selena Price [5] Huntersville 19
Miss North Carolina United States 2014
2014 Elizabeth Safrit Kannapolis 22Miss United States 2014/Miss World America 20142nd Runner-Up at Miss World 2014.
Miss North Carolina World
2013No titleholders as Miss World America was designated from 2006 to 2013.
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005No known representatives from North Carolina 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 Michelle Mauney Stanley Top 7Later Miss North Carolina USA 1995 and competed in Miss USA 1995.
1993Vicki Johnson
1992Shanna PhillipsTop 10
Miss North Carolina USA 1981–1991
1991 Pat Arnold Chapel Hill 21Top 6 (5th place)Miss Photogenic
1990 Altman Allen Shelby
1989 Jacqueline Padgette Hobgood
1988 Tammy Tolar Fayetteville
1987 Donna Wilson Davidson
1986 Rhonda Nobles Fayetteville 20Top 10
1985 Kate Kenney Raleigh
1984 Cookie Noak Hickory 23Top 10
1983 Allison Payge Pinson Mooresville
1982 Jeannie 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).
1981 Lisa Swift Southport
Miss North Carolina World
1980 Monica BostonTop 15
1979 Deborah Ann Fountain Bronx, NY Top 8Later Miss New York USA 1981. Later competed in Miss USA 1981, as New York, but was disqualified after being found to have padded her swimsuit. [6]
1978 Debra Jean Freeze Mooresville 20Miss World America 1978Top 15 semi-finalist at Miss World 1978.
1977 Betty Lou Hutchinson
1976 Sharon Denise SmithMiss Congeniality
1975 Tonda Brown
1974 Gail Lynn Hinton
1973 Doris E. Davis
1972 Julia Ann Lane
1971 Terri Lee Horn
1970 Judith Ellen Steed
1969 did not compete
1968
1967 Brenda Carol RayTop 7
1966 Ann Elizabeth Bailey
1965 Jean Parson Pender
1964 Susan HarrillTop 15
1963 did not compete
1962 Louise FurrTop 15
1961 Betsy Medlin
1960 Rita Souther3rd Runner-Up
1959No known representatives from North Carolina in 1958 & 1959.
1958
Miss North Carolina USA 1953–1957
1957 Peggy Dennis Lilesville
1956 Shirley Bagwell Raleigh 18Top 15
1955 Mary Ratliffe Wadesboro
1954 Ann Pickett Charlotte
1953 Libby Walker Wilton
Miss North Carolina World
1952No known representatives from the North Carolina 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 – North Carolina".
  4. "Meet the new Miss North Carolina". Star-News . June 25, 2018. Retrieved November 13, 2019.
  5. "Miss North Carolina World 2015 Selena Price – Pagenat LIVE". www.youtube.com. Retrieved 2020-05-29.
  6. "Headliners; Truth in Packaging". New York Times. 1981-05-24. Retrieved 2010-05-10.