Laura Kaeppeler, Miss Wisconsin 2011 & Miss America 2012Christina Anna Thompson, Miss Wisconsin 2007Tracy Ann Gest, Miss Wisconsin 2005
The Miss Wisconsin competition is the pageant, held annually in Oshkosh, that selects the representative for the U.S. state of Wisconsin in the annual Miss America pageant.
Wisconsin has won the Miss America crown three times (1973, 2012, and 2023).
Grace Stanke of Wausau was crowned Miss Wisconsin 2022 on June 18, 2022. She represented Wisconsin and won the title of Miss America 2023 on December 16, 2022, in Uncasville, Connecticut. On December 26, 2022, the Miss Wisconsin Organization announced that the 2022 Miss Wisconsin pageant 1st runner-up Kylene Elizabeth Spanbauer of Fond du Lac will assume the title of Miss Wisconsin 2022. She was subsequently officially crowned in January 2023 by Grace Stanke in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The 2023 Miss Wisconsin pageant was held on June 24, 2023, at the Alberta Kimball Civic Auditorium at Oshkosh West High School in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
After placing in the top ten in 2022 as Miss Sugar Maple, Lila Hui Szyryj of Madison competed and won the 2023 Miss Wisconsin title as Miss South Central, a state open title she won in Beloit on January 7, 2023. She was named the Wednesday (June 21, 2023) preliminary talent winner and later bested 24 other women to win the state pageant held on June 24, 2023, at Oshkosh West High School's Alberta Kimball Auditorium, where the state pageant has been held since 1963. This year marked the 60th year anniversary for Oshkosh to host the competition. There was no pageant held in 2020 due to the COVID-19 health pandemic.
Results summary
The following is a visual summary of the past results of Miss Wisconsin 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.
Dixie Ann Sarchet Kuenn married Detroit Tigers baseball player and future Milwaukee Brewers coach and manager Harvey Edward Kuenn on October 29, 1955, in Stevens Point, Wisconsin. She died at 69 on March 12, 2004, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Phyllis Ann Kessler Lynn Sacho died at age 90 on March 7, 2022, in De Pere, Wisconsin. At the time of her passing, she was the oldest and earliest living Miss Wisconsin titleholder.
Gladys Elaine Berkley Stracy died of a brief illness in Madison, Wisconsin at age 38 on September 10, 1965. She remains as the only Miss Wisconsin from Sauk Couunty.
↑ Titleholder extended to a full year in 2020 after state and national pageants postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic[4][5]
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