Miss Wisconsin
Formation | 1927 |
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Type | Beauty pageant |
Headquarters | New Berlin, Wisconsin |
Membership | Miss America |
Official language | English |
Website | Miss Wisconsin official website |
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).
Mandi Jo Genord of Montello was crowned Miss Wisconsin 2024 on June 22, 2024, in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
On September 17, 2024, the state pageant announced that the Miss Wisconsin pageant (as well as the Miss Wisconsin's Teen pageant) will be held in New Berlin, Wisconsin. This will mark the first time that Waukesha County will host the annual state pageants. Miss Wisconsin moved to Oshkosh in 1963 after four years being held in Kenosha.
Results summary
[edit]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.
Placements
[edit]- Miss Americas: Terry Meeuwsen (1973), Laura Kaeppeler (2012), Grace Stanke (2023)
- 1st runners-up: Mary Alice Fox (1960), Joan Mary Engh (1963), Judith Hieke (1974)
- 2nd runners-up: Barbara Burk Baugh (1968), Tina Marie Sauerhammer (2004)
- 3rd runners-up: N/A
- 4th runners-up: Sharon Singstock (1966)
- Top 8: Christina Thompson (2008)
- Top 10: Keungsuk Kim (1982), Tania Ziegler (1994), Mary-Louise Kurey (2000)
- Top 12: Paula Mae Kuiper (2014)
- Top 15: Clara Ethel Koehler (1924), Betty Miller (1941), Phyllis Ann Kessler (1949), Tianna Vanderhei (2019)
- Top 16: Antoine Lunde (1946)
- Top 18: Marie Marguerite Huebner (1933)
Awards
[edit]Preliminary awards
[edit]- Preliminary Lifestyle and Fitness: Mary Alice Fox (1960), Joan Engh (1963), Terry Meeuwsen (1973), Judy Hieke (1974)
- Preliminary On Stage Interview: Tianna Vanderhei (2019)
- Preliminary Talent: Terry Meeuwsen (1973), Maria Kim (1988), Mary-Louise Kurey (2000), Tina Sauerhammer (2004), Laura Kaeppeler (2012), Grace Stanke (2023)
Non-finalist awards
[edit]- Non-finalist Interview: Nicole Jean Locy (1998)
- Non-finalist Talent: Lynn Byron Holden (1957), Marilyn Sembell (1976), Gail Marie Soller (1983), Maria Kim (1988), Tricia Luedtke (1991), Stephanie Klett (1993), Joya Zamora (2001)
Other awards
[edit]- Miss Congeniality: N/A
- Bernie Wayne Performing Arts Award: Mary-Louise Kurey (2000)
- Dr. David B. Allman Medical Scholarship: Carol Ann Schmitt (1975)
- Quality of Life Award Finalists: Laura Herriot (2002), Molly McGrath (2005)
- Special Education Award: Carol Ann Schmitt (1975)
- Special Scholarship Award: Barbara Jean Bonville (1964)
- STEM Scholarship 2nd runner-up: Jennifer Marie Schmidt (2022)
Winners
[edit]- Declared as winner
- Ended as a runner-up
- Ended as a finalist or semi-finalist
Year | Name | Hometown | Age | Local title | Miss America talent | Placement at Miss America | Special scholarships at Miss America | Notes |
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2024 | Mandi Jo Genord | Beaver Dam | 22 | Miss Northern Lights | Lyrical jazz dance "You Don't Own Me" by Lesley Gore | TBA | TBA | Previously Miss Wisconsin's Outstanding Teen 2018 |
2023 | Lila Hui Szyryj | Madison | 22 | Miss South Central | Classical piano, "Revolutionary Etude" by Frederic Chopin | She is the fifth Asian-American, first Chinese-American, and first Madison native to win Miss Wisconsin. | ||
2022 | Kylene Elizabeth Spanbauer | Fond du Lac | 23 | Miss Harbor Cities | Baton, "Holding Out for a Hero" | Did not compete; originally 1st runner-up, later assumed the title after Stanke won Miss America 2023[1] | ||
Previously Miss Wisconsin's Outstanding Teen 2016 | ||||||||
Grace Stanke | Wausau | 20 | Miss Badgerland | Classical Violin, "The Storm" by Antonio Vivaldi | Winner | Preliminary Talent Award Winner | Previously Miss Wisconsin's Outstanding Teen 2017;[2] first woman to hold both state titles[citation needed] | |
2021 | Jennifer Marie Schmidt[3] | Racine | 25 | Miss Rock River Valley | Jazz Dance | STEM Scholarship 2nd runner-up | ||
2019–20[a] | Alyssa Marie Bohm[6] | Mount Pleasant | 24 | Tap Dance, "Feeling Good" | ||||
2018 | Tianna Marie Vanderhei[7] | Wisconsin Rapids | 25 | Miss Wood Violet | Contemporary Dance, "Lean on Me" by Bill Withers | Top 15[8] | Preliminary On Stage Interview Award[9] | Competed for Miss Wisconsin six times, a state pageant record[citation needed] |
2017 | McKenna Holly Collins[10] | Waunakee | 20 | Miss Madison | Ballet en Pointe, “Habanera” from Carmen | Previously a company member at the Madison Ballet[11] Daughter of Wisconsin's Alice in Dairyland 1992, Kristan Ann Conrad[12] | ||
2016 | Courtney Jean Pelot[13] | Manitowoc | 22 | Miss Green Bay Area | Dance, "Burnin' Up" by Jessie J | |||
2015 | Rosalie Elizabeth Smith[14] | Waukesha | 19 | Miss New Berlin | Lyrical Dance, "Heaven" by Beyoncé | |||
2014 | Raeanna Mary Johnson | Holmen | 24 | Miss Madison | Lyrical Dance, "Hallelujah" | 3rd runner-up at National Sweetheart 2011 pageant[15] First woman to hold the Miss Wisconsin title twice 4th runner-up at Miss Wisconsin USA 2017 pageant[16] | ||
2013 | Paula Mae Kuiper[17] | Mount Pleasant | 19 | Miss Madison | Piano, "Hungarian Rhapsody" | Top 12 | ||
2012 | Kathryn (Kate) Bess Gorman[citation needed] | Onalaska | 23 | Miss La Crosse/Oktoberfest | Vocal, "20th Century Fox Mambo" from Smash | |||
2011 | Raeanna Mary Johnson[18] | Holmen | 21 | Miss Seven Rivers | Lyrical Dance, "Hallelujah" by Alexandra Burke | Did not compete; originally 1st runner-up, later assumed the title after Kaeppeler won Miss America 2012 | ||
Laura Kaeppeler | Kenosha | 23 | Miss Southern Wisconsin | Operatic Vocal, "Il Bacio" by Luigi Arditi | Winner[19] | Preliminary Talent Award | Contestant at National Sweetheart 2010 pageant[citation needed] Married TV producer, Mike Fleiss in 2014[20] | |
2010 | Kimberly Brooke Sawyer | Egg Harbor | 22 | Miss Green Bay Area | Classical Vocal, "Donde lieta uscì" from La bohème | |||
2009 | Kristina Kelly Smaby | Holmen | 22 | Miss Madison | Ballet en Pointe, "River Deep – Mountain High" | |||
2008 | Briana Rose Lipor | Racine | 21 | Miss South Central | Classical Vocal, "Chi Il Bel Sogno di Doretta" from La rondine | |||
2007 | Christina Anna Thompson[21] | Pleasant Prairie | 23 | Miss Madison | Classical Violin, "Praeludium & Allegro" by Fritz Kreisler | Top 8 | ||
2006 | Meghan Marie Coffey | New Berlin | 22 | Miss New Berlin | Baton Twirling, "Stuff Like That There" | Previously Wisconsin's National Teenager 2003 | ||
2005 | Tracy Ann Gest | Menomonee Falls | 20 | Miss New Berlin | Classical Piano, "Morceaux de fantaisie" | Previously Beauties of America Teen 2003[citation needed] | ||
2004 | Molly Jean McGrath | Wisconsin Rapids | 22 | Miss Madison | Theatrical Ballet en Pointe, "All That Jazz" | Quality of Life Award Finalist | ||
2003 | Tina Marie Sauerhammer | Green Bay | 22 | Miss Madison | Classical Cello, "Le cygne" | 2nd runner-up | Preliminary Talent Award | |
2002 | Jayme Michel Dawicki | New Berlin | 22 | Miss Southern Wisconsin | Classical Piano, "Wedding Day at Troldhaugen" | |||
2001 | Laura Margaret Herriot | Princeton | 23 | Miss Berlin | Vocal, "Oh, Lady Be Good!" | Quality of Life Award Finalist | ||
2000 | Joya Josephine Zamora | Kenosha | 23 | Miss Eastern Shore | Vocal, "Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
1999 | Mary-Louise Kurey | Brookfield | 24 | Miss West Allis | Classical Vocal, "Il Bacio" | Top 10 | Bernie Wayne Performing Arts Award Preliminary Talent Award |
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1998 | Jill Marie Patzner | Arcadia | 22 | Miss Western Wisconsin | Semi-classical Vocal, "Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again" from The Phantom of the Opera | |||
1997 | Nicole Jean Locy | Glendale | 22 | Miss Western Wisconsin | Vocal, "Someone Else's Story" from Chess | Non-finalist Interview Award | ||
1996 | Jennifer Marie Streblow | Oshkosh | 18 | Miss Oshkosh | Vocal, "Someone Like You" from Jekyll & Hyde | |||
1995 | Pamela Lynn Polk | Berlin | 22 | Miss Southeastern Wisconsin | Vocal, "Operator" | |||
1994 | Laura Jean Voss | Green Bay | 22 | Miss Green Bay | Semi-classical Vocal, West Side Story Medley | |||
1993 | Tania Elizabeth Ziegler | Fond du Lac | 18 | Miss Fond du Lac | Classical Violin, "Bruch's Concerto No. 1 in G Minor" | Top 10 | ||
1992 | Stephanie Klett | Beloit | 25 | Miss Wisconsin Central | Coronet Medley, "Basin Street Blues" & "Ciribiribin" | Non-finalist Talent Award[22] | Later Secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Tourism[22] (2011-2019) | |
1991 | Brenda Jo Haines | Arcadia | 19 | Miss Arcadia | Jazz Clarinet | |||
1990 | Tricia Ann Luedtke | Oostburg | 19 | Miss Oshkosh | Classical Piano, "Polichinelle in F Sharp Minor" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
1989 | Kimberly Jean Totdahl | Racine | 23 | Miss Kenosha | Vocal & Dance, "Being Alive" | Previously Miss Wisconsin T.E.E.N. 1982 Later Miss Wisconsin USA 1991 | ||
1988 | Jeanie Marie Pfeiffer | Franksville | 25 | Miss Milwaukee | Vocal, "Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody" | |||
1987 | Maria Kim | Shorewood | 20 | Miss Madison | Classical Piano, "Fantaisie-Impromptu" | Non-finalist Talent Award Preliminary Talent Award |
Previously Miss Wisconsin National Teenager 1983 Previously Miss Wisconsin Teen USA 1985 | |
1986 | Mara Ann Nesemann | Brookfield | 20 | Miss Waukesha County | Gymnastics Dance Routine, "1980" | |||
1985 | Mary Kay Anderson | St. Francis | 20 | Miss St. Francis | Piano, "Frederik Chopin's Etude, Winter Wind, Op 25, No 11" | Later Miss Wisconsin USA 1988 | ||
1984 | Barbara Marie Mullally | Onalaska | 22 | Miss La Crosse/Oktoberfest | Vocal, "Here I Am" | Toured with Miss America USO Troupe, 1985 | ||
1983 | Wendy Lynn Wagner | Menomonie / Des Plaines, Illinois | 22 | Miss Menomonie | Vocal, "Mira" from Carnival! | |||
1982 | Gail Marie Soller | La Crosse | 24 | Miss La Crosse/Oktoberfest | Classical Vocal, "Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
1981 | Keungsuk Kim | Shorewood | 19 | Miss Milwaukee | Classical Piano, "Kabalevsky's Prelude" | Top 10 | ||
1980 | Dana Lorraine Spychalla | Appleton | 19 | Miss Fond du Lac | Vocal, "The Music and the Mirror" from A Chorus Line | |||
1979 | Kristine Kay Konrad | Oshkosh | 19 | Miss Oshkosh | Vocal, "Starting Here, Starting Now" | |||
1978 | Carin Ann Kizewic | Racine | 24 | Miss Milwaukee | Ballet en Pointe, "The Overture" from Die Fledermaus | |||
1977 | Jennifer Mae Woychik | Arcadia | 19 | Miss Arcadia | Vocal Comedy, "I Love Trash" | |||
1976 | Julie Ann Nowak | Greendale | 19 | Miss West Allis | Popular Vocal, "Do You Know Where You're Going To?" | |||
1975 | Marilyn Jean Sembell | Beloit / St. Louis, Missouri | 25 | Miss Lake Geneva | Classical Piano, "Prelude in G minor" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
1974 | Carol Ann Schmitt | Green Bay | 22 | Miss Milwaukee | Vocal, "Speak Softly Love" | Dr. David B. Allman Medical Scholarship Special Education Award |
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1973 | Judith Hieke | Menomonee Falls | 19 | Miss Milwaukee | Flute Medley including "Cuanto le Gusta" | 1st runner-up | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | |
1972 | Linda Marie Henderson | Elm Grove | 20 | Miss Milwaukee-Summerfest | Ballet[citation needed] | Did not compete; originally 1st runner-up, later assumed the title after Meeuwsen won Miss America 1973 | ||
Terry Meeuwsen | De Pere | 23 | Miss Appleton | Vocal, "He Touched Me" from Drat! The Cat! | Winner | Preliminary Swimsuit Award Preliminary Talent Award |
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1971 | Patricia Ann Jacobs | Wauwatosa | 19 | Miss Stevens Point | Vocal & Dance, "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever" | Toured with Miss America USO Troupe | ||
1970 | Linda Jane Johnson | Milwaukee | 19 | Miss Madison | Piano, "Polonaise" | |||
1969 | Cynthia Ann Morgan | Janesville | 18 | Miss Janesville | Vocal, "Old Devil Moon" | |||
1968 | Marilyn Kay Brahmsteadt | Wisconsin Rapids | 21 | Miss La Crosse | Vocal, "What a Diff'rence a Day Made" | |||
1967 | Barbara Burk Baugh | Brookfield | 20 | Miss Milwaukee | Vocal, "Mira" from Carnival! | 2nd runner-up | Barbara Burk Baugh Waters died at age 55 on October 26, 2002, at home in Brookfield, Wis. after a long battle with cancer. | |
1966 | Candace Gail Hinz | Milwaukee | 19 | Miss West Allis | Piano & Watercolor Painting, "Tara's Theme" from Gone with the Wind | |||
1965 | Sharon Mae Singstock | Oshkosh | 20 | Miss Oshkosh | Vocal, "Rock-a-Bye Your Baby With a Dixie Melody" | 4th runner-up | ||
1964 | Angela Gina Baldi | Glendale | 18 | Miss North Shore | Piano, "On Wisconsin in Three Variations" | |||
1963 | Barbara Jean Bonville | Whitefish Bay | 19 | Miss North Shore | Cello, "Pièce en forme de Habanera" by Maurice Ravel | Special Scholarship Award | ||
1962 | Joan Mary Engh | La Crosse | 21 | Miss La Crosse | Vocal Comedy, "I'll Be Anything You Want Me to Be" | 1st runner-up | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | Served as Wisconsin's Alice in Dairyland in 1960. |
1961 | Diane Margaret Anderson | Eau Claire | 19 | Miss Eau Claire | Violin & Ballet en Pointe, "The Swan" | |||
1960 | Karen Marie Fahrenbach | Racine | 21 | Miss Racine | Classical Ballet en Pointe, "The Sleeping Beauty" | Karen Marie Fahrenbach Thompson died of cancer at age 68 on November 6, 2007, in Racine, Wisconsin. | ||
1959 | Mary Alice Fox | Sheboygan | 20 | Miss Sheboygan | Soft Shoe Comedy Dance | 1st runner-up | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | |
1958 | Kay Joan Ross | West Allis | 24 | Miss West Allis | Art Presentation with Vocal & Dance | |||
1957 | Joan Carol Hentschel | Wauwatosa | 18 | Miss Wauwatosa | Interpretive Ballet, "3:00 in the Morning" | |||
1956 | Lynn Byron Holden | Milwaukee | 19 | Miss Ripon | Piano | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
1955 | Margaret Carolynne Walls | Milwaukee | 18 | Miss Milwaukee | Ballet, "Dying Swan" | |||
1954 | Dixie Ann Sarchet | Stevens Point | 19 | Miss Wisconsin Rapids | Modern Dance, "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" | 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. | ||
1953 | Judith Lee Jacobsen | Wauwatosa | 19 | Miss Milwaukee | Vocal & Dance, "Make Believe" & "Come Back to Sorrento" | |||
1952 | Jeannie Eleanore Huston | La Crosse | 19 | Miss La Crosse | Cello | |||
1951 | Sheila Marie Murphy | Marshfield | 18 | Miss Marshfield | Monologue | |||
1950 | Gloria Betty Lange | Milwaukee | 20 | Miss Milwaukee | Operatic Vocal, "The Donkey Serenade" from The Firefly | |||
1949 | Phyllis Ann Kessler | Green Bay | 18 | Miss Green Bay | Baton Twirling | Top 15 | 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. | |
1948 | Marvene Margaret Fischer | Milwaukee | 19 | Miss Milwaukee | ||||
1947 | Gladys Elaine Berkley | Baraboo | 19 | Miss Baraboo | Monologue | 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 County. | ||
1946 | Antoine (Toni) Bernice Lunde | Milwaukee / Westby | 20 | Miss Milwaukee | Top 16 | Antonie Lunde Early died at age 78 on March 9, 2006, at home in Greenwood, South Carolina. | ||
1945 | Eileen Christianson (Christy) | Menomonie | 20 | Miss Menomonie | ||||
1944 | Elsie (Elyse) Sutter | Milwaukee | 20 | Miss Milwaukee | N/A | Did not compete in the Miss America 1944 pageant. She died on September 16, 2019, at 95. | ||
1943 | No Wisconsin representative at Miss America pageant | |||||||
1942 | Charlotte Ruth Lemmer | Milwaukee | 18 | Miss Milwaukee | ||||
1941 | Betty Ann Miller[23] | Milwaukee | 18 | Miss Milwaukee Mid-Summer Festival | Artistic Caricature of President Franklin D. Roosevelt | Top 15 | ||
1940 | No Wisconsin representative at Miss America pageant | |||||||
1939 | ||||||||
1938 | ||||||||
1937 | ||||||||
1936 | Aline Fern Schwartz | Milwaukee | 18 | Miss Milwaukee | ||||
1935 | No Wisconsin representative at Miss America pageant | |||||||
1934 | No pageant was held | |||||||
1933 | Marie Marguerite Huebner | Portage[24] | 20 | Miss Portage | Top 18 | Marie Huebner Raimer died at 93 on February 15, 2007, in Puyallup, Washington after a brief illness. | ||
1932 | No pageants were held | |||||||
1931 | ||||||||
1930 | ||||||||
1929 | ||||||||
1928 | ||||||||
1927 | Marjorie Mae Leffingwell | Madison / Rio, Wisconsin | Miss Madison | Marjorie Mae Leffingwell Grate died at age 83 in Madison, Wisconsin on December 23, 1992. | Multiple Wisconsin representatives Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant | |||
Virginia June Hillyer | Fort Atkinson | 17 | Miss Wisconsin | Virginia June Hillyer Kincaid was the first-ever crowned Miss Wisconsin and later died at 77 of heart complications in Panama City, Florida on November 25, 1986. | ||||
1926 | Dorothy Bernadine Seiler | Madison | Miss Madison | Dorothy Bernadine Seiler Bowley died at age 90 on April 3, 1996, in Augusta, Wisconsin. | Multiple Wisconsin representatives Contestants competed under local title at Miss America pageant | |||
Florence Andrees | Milwaukee | Miss Milwaukee | ||||||
Name not known | Miss Racine | |||||||
1925 | Virginia Sara Armstrong | Milwaukee | Miss Milwaukee | Was later named Miss South Bend (Indiana) 1927. Virginia "Ginny" Sara Armstrong Mahn died in Mount Dora, Florida, on July 16, 2009, at age 99. | No Miss Wisconsin Competed under local title at Miss America pageant | |||
1924 | Clara Ethel Koehler | Milwaukee | 26 | Miss Milwaukee | Top 15 | Clara Ethel Koehler Lord died in Milwaukee at age 86 on June 30, 1984. She was the only contestant from Wisconsin to compete at Miss America who was born in the 19th century (June 1898). | No Miss Wisconsin Competed under local title at Miss America pageant | |
1923 | No Wisconsin representative at Miss America pageant | |||||||
1922 | ||||||||
1921 |
Notes
[edit]- ^ Titleholder extended to a full year in 2020 after state and national pageants postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic[4][5]
References
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- ^ Bauter, Alison (June 22, 2013). "Former Miss Racine the newest Miss Wisconsin". The Journal Times.
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- ^ Oldenburg, Ann (January 14, 2012). "Miss America pageant crowns 2012 winner". USA Today. Gannett.
- ^ "Mike Fleiss Marries Laura Kaeppeler", People Magazine, April 9, 2014
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- ^ "Miss Delaware to Give Atlantic City Beauties Run for U. S. Honors". Wilmington, Delaware: The Morning News. September 4, 1941.
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