Miss_Alabama_USA

Miss Alabama USA

Miss Alabama USA

Beauty pageant competition

For the state pageant affiliated with Miss America, see Miss Alabama.

Miss Alabama USA, previously known as Miss Alabama Universe,[1] is the beauty pageant that selects the representative for the state of Alabama in the Miss USA pageant, and the name of the title held by its winner. The pageant is directed by RPM Productions.

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Alabama's most successful placement was in 1967, when Sylvia Hitchcock was crowned Miss USA. She later went on to be crowned Miss Universe 1967 as well. Alabama's most recent placement was in 2023, when Sophie Burzynski placed Top 20.

The current Miss Alabama USA is Sophie Burzynski of Auburn, Alabama, who was crowned on January 28, 2022 at Jay & Susie Gogue Performing Arts Center in Auburn. Burzynski represented Alabama at Miss USA 2023 and placed Top 20.

Results summary

Placements in Miss USA

  • Miss USA: Sylvia Hitchcock (Miss Universe 1967)[2]
  • 1st Runners-Up: Pamela Flowers (1975), Candace Michelle Brown (1992), Michelle Arnette (2003), Mary-Margaret McCord (2013)
  • 2nd Runners-Up: Doris Edwards (1953), Judith Carlson (1958), Margaret Gordon (1960), Jina Mitchell (2000), Madeline Mitchell (2011)
  • 3rd Runner-Up: Pamela Rigas (1980)
  • 4th Runner-Up: Suellen Robinson (1961), Kelly Hutchinson (2020)
  • Top 5: Peyton Brown (2016)
  • Top 10/11/12: JoAnne Henderson (1981), Candy Carley (1991), Autumn Smith (1997), Tara Tucker (2002), Tara Darby (2004), Haleigh Stidham (2006), Audrey Moore (2010), Katherine Webb (2012), Madison Guthrie (2015)
  • Top 15/20: Pat Sullivan (1959), Dinah Irene Armstrong (1963), Pamela Jean Borgfeldt (1964), Leigh Sanford (1965), Claudia Robinson (1968), Hitsy Parnell (1969), Jesica Ahlberg (2014), Sophie Burzynski (2023)

Alabama has a record of 31 placements at Miss USA.

Awards

  • Miss Congeniality: Peyton Brown (2016)
  • Miss Photogenic: Pamela Flowers (1975), Rebecca Moore (2007), Audrey Moore (2010)

Titleholders

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  •   Winner
  •   Runner-up
  •   Semi-finalist
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Notes

  1. Age at the time of the crowning

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