Miss Arizona USA

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The Miss Arizona USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state Arizona in the Miss USA pageant.

In 2005 the rights to produce the Miss Arizona USA pageant were given to Casting Crown productions. This company is directed by Britt Boyse, Miss Missouri USA 1995.

Arizona has had a comparatively large number of semi-finalists and placings, but has never won the Miss USA crown in its own right. However, in 1980, Jineane Ford was awarded the title after Shawn Weatherly (who won the original pageant) won the Miss Universe pageant.

Three Miss Arizona USAs were former Miss Arizona Teen USAs and two were former Miss America contestants.

1 Results summary
- 1.1 Placements
- 1.2 Awards
2 Winners
3 External links

[edit] Results summary

[edit] Placements

First runner-up: Jineane Ford (1980 - later became Miss USA)
Second runners-up: Jane Nelson (1965), Susanne Pottenger (1971), Diane Martin (1987)
Third runners-up: Ruth Hayes (1969), Sherry Nix (1973)
Top 10: Michelle Ducote (1985), Lee Anne Locken (1989), Stacey Kole (1998)
Top 11/12: Toni Abranovic (1977), Ana Rupert (1979), Maricarroll Verlinde (1991), Dannis Shephard (1992),
Top 15: Maija Bertulson (1956), Jerri Michaelson (1962), Diane McGarry (1963), Roxanne Neeley (1966), Judianne Magnusson (1967), Carlys Peterson (1974), Danielle Demski (2004), Brenna Sakas (2006)

[edit] Awards

Miss Congeniality: Cara Jackson (1999)
Miss Photogenic: Jineane Ford (1980)
Best State Costume: Daria Sparling (1984), Michelle Ducote (1985), Maricarroll Verlinde (1991)

[edit] Winners

Year	Name	Hometown	Age¹	Placement at Miss USA	Special awards at Miss USA	Notes
2008	Kimberly Joiner	Gilbert	22
2007	Courtney Barnas	Mesa	19
2006	Brenna Sakas	Chandler	21	Top 15
2005	Mariana Loya	Gilbert	26			Previously Miss Washington 1998
2004	Danielle Demski	Chandler	22	Top 15		Previously Miss Arizona Teen USA 1999 (4th at Miss Teen USA 1999), NFL Cheerleader
2003	Nafeesa DeFlorias	Phoenix	26
2002	Jennifer Lenz	Mesa	25
2001	Tasha Dixon	Phoenix	19
2000	Heather Keckler	Scottsdale	26			Previously Miss Arizona Teen USA 1992
1999	Cara Jackson	Chandler			Miss Congeniality	Previously Miss Arizona 1995
1998	Stacey Kole	Tempe		Top 10
1997	Jessica Nicely	Gilbert
1996	Christina Novak
1995	Shara Riggs	Oro Valley
1994	Jennifer Tisdale	Mesa
1993	Apryl Hettich	Scottsdale
1992	Dannis Shephard	Mesa		Top 11
1991	Maricarroll Verlinde			Top 11	Best State Costume
1990	Lezlie Leonard
1989	Lee Anne Locken	Apache Junction		Top 10
1988	Kris Keim	Scottsdale				Previously Miss Arizona Teen USA 1983
1987	Diane Martin	Phoenix	24	2nd runner-up		Previously Miss Arizona 1985, semifinalist in Miss Asia Pacific 1987 as USA rep
1986	Jodi Armstrong	Phoenix
1985	Michelle Ducote	Tempe		Top 10	Best State Costume
1984	Daria Sparling	Tucson			Best State Costume
1983	Sindy Hedden	Tucson
1982	Lori Hakola	Tucson
1981	Cassie Hill	Phoenix
1980	Jineane Ford	Gilbert	20	1st runner-up	Miss Photogenic	Became Miss USA 1980 when Shawn Weatherly became Miss Universe
1979	Ana Rupert			Top 12
1978	Jacque Crutchfield
1977	Toni Abranovic			Top 12
1976	Curvey Walters
1975	Sanna Osgood
1974	Carlys Peterson			Top 12
1973	Sherry Nix			3rd runner-up
1972	Marcia Banks			2nd runner-up
1971	Susanne Pottenger			3rd runner-up
1970	Alicia Lein
1969	Ruth Hayes			3rd runner-up
1968	Shirley Sprague
1967	Judianne Magnusson			Top 15
1966	Roxanne Neeley			Top 15
1965	Jane Nelson			1st runner-up
1964	Diane Reutter
1963	Diane McGarry			Top 15
1962	Jerri Michaelson			Top 15
1961	Shyrle Owens
1960	Virginia Crook
1959	Patricia Varga
1958	Shirlee Fox
1956	Maija Bertulson
1955	Patti Marks
1954	Bonnie Jackson
1953	Eleanor Ruth Cross
1952	Charlene Hendricks					Withdrew from competition