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Miss Kansas

Miss Kansas

Beauty pageant competition

For the state pageant affiliated with Miss USA, see Miss Kansas USA.

The Miss Kansas competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the US state of Kansas in the Miss America pageant. Kansas has won the Miss America crown on three occasions.

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Ayanna Hensley of Dodge City was crowned Miss Kansas 2022 on June 11, 2022, at Dennis Lesh Sports Arena at Pratt Community College in Pratt. She competed for the title of Miss America 2023 at the Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Connecticut in December 2022.

Results summary

The following is a visual summary of the past results of Miss Kansas 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.

Placements

  • Miss Americas: Deborah Irene Bryant (1966), Debra Dene Barnes (1968), Tara Dawn Holland (1997)
  • 2nd runners-up: Michelle Elaine Whitson (1980)
  • 3rd runners-up: Vera June Ralston (1948), Mary Ann McGrew (1957) (tie), Pamela McKelvy (1993)
  • Top 10: Sandy Rings (1972), Cynthia Sikes (1973), Lori Ann Bergen (1979), Robbin Lee Wasson (1992), Trisha Schaffer (1995), Amy Keller (1996), Megan Bushell (2005), Theresa Vail (2014)
  • Top 11: Courtney Wages (2024)
  • Top 15: Shirley Hargiss (1949), Annika Wooton (2020)
  • Top 16: Lucia Benton (1937)

Awards

Preliminary awards

Non-finalist awards

  • Non-finalist Talent: Sharon O'Neal (1960), Karen Raye Schwartz (1964), Karen Diane Smith (1975), Jill Dirks (1978), Laura Lynn Watters (1984), Kimberly Dugger (1991), Angelea Busby (2004), Annika Wooton (2020)

Other awards

Winners

  •   Declared as winner
  •   Ended as a runner-up
  •   Ended as a finalist or semi-finalist
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Notes

  1. Titleholder extended to a full year in 2020 after state and national pageants postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[5]

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