Miss_Utah_USA

Miss Utah USA

Miss Utah USA

Beauty pageant competition

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

The Miss Utah USA competition is the pageant who selects the representative for the state of Utah in the Miss USA pageant. From 2001 to 2007, the pageant was produced by Red Curtain Productions. Casting Crowns Productions directed the pageant from 2007 to 2018 under the directorship of former Miss Missouri USA Britt Boyse. Smoak Productions became the new director for Miss and Teen pageants in 2019 under executive director and Miss USA 1995 Shanna Moakler.[1]

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Heather Anderson, Miss Utah USA 2007

Utah has been quite successful at Miss USA, with 20 placements as of 2009. Their most consistent period was in the 1950s and 1960s. Utah has produced two Miss USA winners, in 1960 (Linda Bement, who went on to win the Miss Universe 1960 title) and in 2023. Miss Utah USA 1957, Charlotte Sheffield, also won the Miss USA 1957 crown after the original titleholder (Leona Gage of Maryland) was dethroned. Utah has a strong recent record, having placed in four out of five pageants between 2005 and 2009. The most recent placement and win was Venezuelan-American Noelia Voigt in 2023.

Three Miss Utah USAs are former Miss Utah Teen USAs who competed at Miss Teen USA. All three placed at Miss USA, which eclipsed their Teen performances. They are also very similar to the Miss North Carolina USA titleholders who also placed at Miss USA rather than Miss Teen USA. Two also competed in Miss Utah.

The current titleholder is Noelia Voigt of Park City, who later won the Miss USA 2023 pageant.

Results summary

Placements

  • Miss USA: Linda Bement (1960), Noelia Voigt (2023)
  • 1st runners-up: Charlotte Sheffield (1957)[lower-alpha 1]
  • 2nd runners-up: Susan Gasser (1982)
  • 3rd runners-up: Janet Joy Erikson (1964), Laura Chukanov (2009), Marissa Powell (2013)
  • 4th runners-up: Shauna Wood (1953)
  • Top 5/6: Temple Taggert (1997), Melissa Leigh Anderson (1998)
  • Top 10/12: Tracy Kennick (1996), Margo Flynn (1978), Heather Anderson (2007)
  • Top 15/16: Cheryl Brown (1956), Sandra Puch (1958), Janet Marie Hawley (1961), Patricia Profaizer (1962), Janice Sadler (1965), Denice Blair (1966), Marin Poole (2005), Julia Bachison (2008), Jamie Crandall (2011), JessiKate Riley (2021)

Utah holds a record of 23 placements at Miss USA.

Awards

  • Miss Congeniality: Peggy Moore (1972)
  • Miss Photogenic: Marissa Powell (2013)
  • Best State Costume 2nd Place: JessiKate Riley (2021)

Winners

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  •   Declared as Winner
  •   Ended as runner-up
  •   Ended as one of the finalists or semifinalists
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Notes

  1. Charlotte Sheffield was 1st runner-up at Miss USA, but succeeded the title when Mary Leona Gage was dethroned.
  2. Age at the time of the Miss USA pageant

References

  1. [1]
    "Smoak Productions is pleased to welcome @ShannaMoakler as the 2019 #MissUtahUSA & #MissUtahTeenUSA Executive Director! #MissUSA #MissTeenUSA". Miss Utah USA on Twitter. April 7, 2018. Retrieved July 15, 2019.
  2. [2]
    "BYU Senior JessiKate Riley crowned Miss Utah 2017". KSL.com. June 18, 2017. Retrieved August 22, 2021. Riley was crowned Miss Utah's Outstanding Teen — the little sister program to the Miss America Organization — in 2014.
  3. [3]
    "Winners of 2017 Miss Utah". KUTV.com. June 17, 2017. Retrieved August 22, 2021.
  4. [4]
    "KUTV2 News "Person 2 Person": Marissa Powell". October 14, 2013. Retrieved January 28, 2013.
  5. [5]
    "Miss Outstanding Teen chasing national dream".
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