Miss_Massachusetts

Miss Massachusetts

Miss Massachusetts

Beauty pageant competition

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

The Miss Massachusetts competition is a scholarship pageant put on annually by the Miss Massachusetts Scholarship Foundation, Inc. The winner of the pageant receives the title of Miss Massachusetts and represents the state of Massachusetts at the Miss America pageant in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

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Loren Galler-Rabinowitz, Miss Massachusetts 2010, competes in ice dancing at the 2004 Four Continents Championships

Women between the ages of 17 and 24 who meet residency, scholastic and character requirements are eligible to compete in local pageants, the winners of which continue on to the Miss Massachusetts pageant in Worcester each July.

Contestants at the Miss Massachusetts competition are judged in five areas: personal interview, poise and grace in evening gown, lifestyle and fitness in swimsuit, artistic expression, and on stage question. Scholarships are awarded for Miss Massachusetts, first through fourth runners-up, preliminary talent winners, preliminary swimsuit winners, non-finalist talent winner, MAO Academic Award, MAO Service Award, and MAO Children's Miracle Network Award.

Katrina Kincade of Boston was crowned Miss Massachusetts 2022 on July 3, 2022, at Hanover Theatre in Worcester, Massachusetts. 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 Massachusetts 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

  • 1st runners-up: Paulina McKevitt* (1944), Catherine Monroe (1969), Abbie Rabine (2002)
  • 2nd runners-up: Helena Frances Mack* (1943), Deborah O'Brien (1972), Elizabeth Pierre (2022)
  • 3rd runners-up: Polly Connors (1940)
  • 4th runners-up: Lauren Kuhn (2015), Gabriela Taveras (2019)
  • Top 10: Virginia Maffucci (1956), Jewel Smerage (1957), Brenda Crovo (1961), Carol Kennedy (1967), Georgina Hossfeld (1970), Cynthia Carpenter (1976), Margaret O'Brien (1985), Lisa Desroches (1993), Marcia Turner (1996), Melanie Correia (2003)
  • Top 15: Martha E. Hick** (1927), Ethel Beatrice Pierce* (1927), Barbara Laughton (1948), Alissa Musto (2017)
  • Top 16: Claire Nevulis* (1937)
  • Top 18: Elsie Taylor (1933)

Awards

Preliminary awards

Non-finalist awards

  • Non-finalist Talent: Sharon Faught (1960), Maria Lynn Chaffee (1968), Marie Semas (1973), Rena Walmsley (1974), Amy Linder (1981), Holly Mayer (1984), Lisa Kleypas (1986), Aurelie McCarthy (1988), Marissa Laakso (1991), Melissa Bloemker (1992), Sharon Lee (1995), Lori Flick (1997), April Thibeaut (2000), Erika Ebbel (2005), Valerie Amaral (2008), Taylor Kinzler (2013)
  • Non-finalist Interview: Elizabeth Hancock (1999)

Other awards

  • Miss Congeniality: N/A
  • Dr. David B. Allman Medical Scholarship: Susan Sadlier (1975)
  • Charles & Theresa Brown Scholarship: Lauren Kuhn (2015), Alissa Musto (2017)
  • Children's Miracle Network (CMN) Miracle Maker Award Winner: Valerie Amaral (2008), Loren Galler-Rabinowitz (2011)
  • CMN Miracle Maker Award 2nd runners-up: Jillian Zucco (2018)
  • People's Choice Award: Gabriela Taveras (2019)
  • Quality of Life Award Finalists: Valerie Amaral (2008)
  • STEM Scholarship Award Winners: Lauren Kuhn (2015), Jillian Zucco (2018), Gabriela Taveras (2019)
  • STEM Scholarship Award 1st runners-up: Lyndsey Littlefield (2020)
  • Waterford Crystal Award for Business Marketing and Management: Samira Zebian (1998)

* Competed as Miss Boston
** Competed as Miss Pittsfield

Winners

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