Miss West Virginia
For the state pageant affiliated with Miss USA, see Miss West Virginia USA.
The Miss West Virginia competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of West Virginia in the Miss America pageant.
Winners
| Year | Name | Hometown | Age | Local Title | Miss America Talent | Placement at Miss America | Special scholarships at Miss America | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Morgan Hope Breeden | Charles Town | 21 | Miss Jefferson County | Piano | Miss West Virginia's Outstanding Teen 2012 | ||
| 2015 | Chelsea Malone | Morgantown | 23 | Miss Wheeling | Vocal, "Over You" | Top 15 | ||
| 2014 | Paige Madden[1] | Moundsville | 21 | Miss Southern West Virginia | Vocal "Gravity" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 2013 | Miranda Harrison | Charleston | 19 | Miss Southern West Virginia | Vocal "Feeling Good" | Won Miss West Virginia while attending Marshall University as Miss Southern West Virginia. Previous titles included Miss Kanawha Valley (WV) and Miss Hanover (in Virginia) | ||
| 2012 | Kaitlin Gates | Bridgeport | 20 | Miss Harrison County | Vocal "Since I Fell for You" | Miss West Virginia's Outstanding Teen 2006 | ||
| 2011 | Spenser Wempe | Shepherdstown | 18 | Miss North Eastern | Dance "Hallelujah" | Contestant at National Sweetheart 2010 | ||
| 2010 | Cali Young | Glen Dale | 24 | Miss Northern West Virginia | Jazz Dance "I've Got 'Cha" | |||
| 2009 | Talia Markham | Ripley | 22 | Miss Capital City | Vocal "Take My Hand, Precious Lord" | |||
| 2008 | Kayla Lynam | Short Gap | 21 | Miss Eastern Panhandle | Piano | West Virginia's Junior Miss 2005 | ||
| 2007 | Summer Wyatt | Athens | 21 | Miss Capital City | Vocal "Why Haven't I Heard from You" | |||
| 2006 | Tiffany Lawrence | Shepherdstown | 24 | Miss Jefferson County | Vocal "Black Velvet" | "People's choice" award at Miss West Virginia USA 2006 | ||
| 2005 | Kimberly Goodwin | Morgantown | 21 | Miss Morgantown | Tap Dance | |||
| 2004 | Julia Burton | Petersburg | 22 | Miss Southern West Virginia | Vocal | |||
| 2003 | Allison Williams | Morgantown | 22 | Miss Mountain State | Vocal "Where the Boys Are" | |||
| 2002 | Janna Kerns | Terra Alta | 23 | Miss Morgantown | Vocal "There You'll Be" | |||
| 2001 | Danae DeMasi | Morgantown | 20 | Miss Appalachia | Ballet en Pointe "Ravendhi" | Top 10 | Preliminary Evening Gown Award | |
| 2000 | Jodi Clark | Moundsville | 22 | Miss Point Pleasant | Ballet en Pointe "Who Will Love Me As I Am?" from Side Show | Contestant at National Sweetheart 1999 | ||
| 1999 | Lucy Ours | Petersburg | 22 | Miss Mason County | Vocal "He Grew the Tree" | |||
| 1998 | Amy Townsend | Morgantown | 23 | Miss Marion County Area | Vocal "Hopelessly Devoted to You" | |||
| 1997 | Eisa Krushansky | Westover | 24 | Miss Miss North Central | Tap Dance "Dancin' Fool" from Copacabana | |||
| 1996 | Kari Safford | Point Pleasant | 23 | Miss Ohio Valley | Vocal "God Help the Outcasts" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1995 | Elizabeth McIntyre | Dunbar | 24 | Miss Appalachia | Clogging "Dance" | |||
| 1994 | Jennifer Bopp | Elkins | 22 | Miss South Central | Vocal "Paper Moon" | National Photographer as seen in Seventeen magazine, Glamour magazine, and People magazine; National photographer for the MAO Teen Organization with President Kim Parrish Miss WV 1992 | ||
| 1993 | Cynthia Sims | Vienna | 22 | Miss Ohio Valley | Vocal "There! I've Said It Again" | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | ||
| 1992 | Kimberly Parrish | Parkersburg | 22 | Miss Marion County Area | Contemporary Ballet en Pointe "Part of Your World" | Former host on QVC, Currently on Home Shopping Network with the Kim Parrish Collection Clothing Line | ||
| 1991 | Leah Lasker | Bluefield | 23 | Miss Mercer County | Tap Dance "I'm a Brass Band" from Sweet Charity | Non-finalist Interview Award | ||
| 1990 | Melissa Costello | Shenandoah Junction | 20 | Miss Jefferson County | Vocal "Hurt" | |||
| 1989 | Lisa Bittinger | Fairmont | 21 | Miss North Central | Vocal "Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again" from The Phantom of the Opera | |||
| 1988 | Lisa Seagroves | Morgantown | 24 | Miss North Central | Tap Dance "They're Playing Our Song" | Contestant at National Sweetheart 1985 representing Georgia | ||
| 1987 | Saundra Patton | Morgantown | 22 | Miss North Central | Variety Act | |||
| 1986 | Shannon Barill | Charleston | 23 | Miss Charleston Area | Jazz en Pointe | |||
| 1985 | Rebecca Porterfield | Martinsburg | 21 | Miss Martinsburg-Berkeley County | Jazz Dance | |||
| 1984 | Melanne Pennington | Cross Lanes | 24 | Miss Kanawha County | Semi-classical Vocal "One Kiss" from The New Moon | |||
| 1983 | Andrea Lynn Patrick | Morgantown | 23 | Miss West Virginia University | Tap Dance "Malagueña" & "España cañí" | Miss Pennsylvania USA 1980 | ||
| 1982 | Kelly Lea Anderson | Clarksburg | 21 | Miss Harrison County | Stylized Can-Can | Miss West Virginia USA 1984 and 1st runner-up at Miss USA 1984, Miss World USA 1984 and Top 5 finalist at Miss World 1984 | ||
| 1981 | Candy Cohen | Huntington | 24 | Miss Marshall University | Tap Dance "How High the Moon" | |||
| 1980 | Pamela Ellen Paugh | Charleston | 21 | Miss South Charleston | Vocal "Anytime"' | Sister of Miss West Virginia 1977, Aunt of JonBenét Ramsey | ||
| 1979 | Deborah Davis | Huntington | 22 | Miss Southern West Virginia | Vocal Medley "He Touched Me" from Drat! The Cat! & "Maybe This Time" from Cabaret | Top 10 | Miss West Virginia USA 1978 | |
| 1978 | Ivy Meadows | St. Albans | 22 | Miss South Charleston | Interpretive Dance "Brian's Song" | |||
| 1977 | Patricia Paugh (a.k.a. Patsy Ramsey) | Parkersburg | 20 | Miss Parkersburg Area | Original Dramatic Monologue "Deadline" | Non-finalist Talent Award | Sister of Miss West Virginia 1980, Mother of JonBenét Ramsey | |
| 1976 | Teresa Lucas | Elkins | 22 | Miss Fayette County | Gymnastics Routine | Toured with Miss America USO Troupe, West Virginia's Junior Miss 1972 and Semi-finalist at America's Junior Miss | ||
| 1975 | Kristi Wick | South Charleston | 20 | Miss South Charleston | Vocal "Am I Blue?" | |||
| 1974 | Mary Derry | Morgantown | 21 | Miss West Virginia University | Semi-classical Vocal "Cycles" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1973 | Myra Elizabeth "Beth" McVey | Huntington | 20 | Miss Huntington | Classical Vocal "Quando me'n vo'" | Toured with Miss America USO Troupe, Has appeared on Broadway in The Phantom of the Opera and Beauty and the Beast | ||
| 1972 | Lynette Koper | Weirton | 21 | Miss Huntington | Presentation of Original Art Works | |||
| 1971 | Deborah Lambert | Morgantown | 19 | Miss West Virginia University | Piano "What the World Needs Now Is Love" | |||
| 1970 | Linda Dianne Barnett | Parkersburg | 19 | Miss Wood County | Modern Jazz Dance "Keem-O-Sabe" | Artist-Painter | ||
| 1969 | Judith Shoup | Gibsonia, Pennsylvania | 22 | Miss West Virginia University | Vocal Medley & French Horn "Days of Wine and Roses", "A Taste of Honey", & "I've Gotta Be Me" | Non-finalist Talent Award | Won Miss West Virginia while attending West Virginia University | |
| 1968 | Charlotte Warwick | Charleston | 22 | Miss Morris-Harvey College | Semi-classical Vocal "The Impossible Dream" | |||
| 1967 | Helen Morgan | Lewisburg | 19 | Miss Beckley | Toe & Acrobatic Dance "Teakwood Nocturne" by Roger Williams | |||
| 1966 | Judith Skunda | Weirton | 18 | Miss Weirton | Dramatic Monologue | |||
| 1965 | Lois Gay Ratcliff | Bluefield | 19 | Miss Greater Bluefield | Dramatic Reading "Lonesome Train" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1964 | Ella Dee Kessel | Ripley | 21 | Miss Morgantown | Piano Solo "Gershwin Prelude" | 2nd runner-up | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | Wife of Governor Gaston Caperton, First lady of West Virginia 1989–90 |
| 1963 | Karen Childers | South Charleston | Miss Marshall University | Dramatic Reading "The Yellow Wallpaper" | Non-finalist Talent Award | |||
| 1962 | Diane Hunter | Arlington, Virginia | 20 | Miss Morgantown | Dance & Dramatic Sketch | Won Miss West Virginia while attending West Virginia University | ||
| 1961 | Carole Johnson | Rivesville | 21 | Miss Morgantown | Vocal & Dance "Hey, Look Me Over" from Wildcat & "You Can't Get a Man with a Gun" | Contestant at Miss Dixie 1962, Mother of Miss Missouri 2004 | ||
| 1960 | Mary Hoback | Bluefield | 18 | Miss Bluefield | Original Dramatic Reading | Contestant at Miss Dixie 1961 | ||
| 1959 | Janet Hill | Nitro | 21 | Dramatic Reading | Contestant at Miss Dixie 1960 | |||
| 1958 | Sandra Boyd | Fairmont | Vocal "Money Honey" | |||||
| 1957 | Janice Sickle | Fairmont | Vocal & Dance | Contestant at Miss Dixie 1958 | ||||
| 1956 | Carolyn Miller | Martinsburg | Drama | Contestant at Miss Dixie 1957 | ||||
| 1955 | Mary Fryman | Madison | Vocal | |||||
| 1954 | Miriam Reep | Clarksburg | Drama | |||||
| 1953 | Patricia Stewart | Pineville | Vocal & Impersonations | |||||
| 1952 | Nancy Rohrbough | Grafton | Dance | |||||
| 1951 | Phyllis Walker | Charleston | Drama | Top 15 | ||||
| 1949 | Georganne Steiss | Barrackville | Piano | |||||
| 1948 | Jane Queen | Huntington | Vocal & Piano | |||||
| 1947 | Joan Estep | Wheeling | Piano "Rhapsody in Blue" | Top 15 | ||||
| 1946 | Norma Salisbury | Parkersburg | Top 16 | |||||
| 1941 | Juanita Wright | Huntington | ||||||
| 1940 | Mary Bowles | Montgomery | ||||||
| Juanita Wright | Huntington | Top 15 | Competed as Miss Huntington | |||||
| 1933 | Mildred Fetty | 20 | Top 18 | |||||
| 1927 | No Miss West Virginia | Lillian Ward, Miss Huntington, placed as a Semi-finalist. Mildred Dorothy Bright competed as Miss Wheeling. | ||||||
| 1926 | No Miss West Virginia | Representing West Virginia were: Olive Davis, Miss Huntington and Cecilail Cresap, Miss Wheeling | ||||||
| 1925 | No Miss West Virginia | Eleanor McCracken competed as Miss Huntington. | ||||||
| 1923 | Neva Toby Jackson | |||||||
| 1922 | No Miss West Virginia | Mary Dange competed as Miss Wheeling. | ||||||
References
- ↑ "About Paige". Miss West Virginia Scholarship Organization. Retrieved June 28, 2015.
External links
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