Miss Kansas
Winners
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Miss Kansas

Section Title: Winners
Table Section Text: 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

2018	Hannah Klaassen	Arkansas City	19	Miss South Central	Tap Dance, "The Greatest Show" from The Greatest Showman	CMN Miracle Maker Award 1st runner-up

2017	Krystian Fish	Wichita	21	Miss Heart of the Midwest	Vocal, "They Just Keep Moving the Line" from Smash	Quality of Life Award Finalist

2016	Kendall Schoenekase	Overland Park	22	Miss Johnson County	Vocal, "Ain't No Sunshine"	CMN Miracle Maker Award 2nd runner-up Quality of Life Award 1st runner-up STEM Scholarship Award

2015	Hannah Wagner	Wichita	19	Miss Augusta	Ballet en Pointe "Swan Lake"

2014	Amanda Sasek	Moberly, MO	23	Miss Greater Wichita	Vocal "I Don't Know My Own Strength"

2013	Theresa Vail	Manhattan	22	Miss Leavenworth County	Vocal "Nessun Dorma"	Top 10	America's Choice	First Miss America contestant to display tattoos in the swimsuit competition

2012	Sloane Lewis	Norwich	22	Miss Wooded Hills	Self-arranged Piano Medley "River Storm"

2011	Carissa Kelley	Winfield	24	Miss Wooded Hills	Dance "Rolling in the Deep"	Previously Miss Kansas Teen USA 2004

2010	Lauren Werhan	Wichita	20	Miss Southwest	Ballet en Pointe "Asturias"

2009	Becki Ronen	Buhler	20	Miss Flint Hills	Classical Trumpet Solo "Stars in a Velvety Sky"

2008	Emily Deaver	Augusta	19	Miss Augusta	Piano / Vocal "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?"

2007	Alyssa George	Minneapolis	22	Miss Sedgwick County	Classical Piano Solo

2006	Michelle Walthers	Towanda	21	Miss Augusta	Vocal "Shy" from Once Upon a Mattress

2005	Adrienne Rosel	Liberal	23	Miss Wichita	Theatrical Vocal / Dance "America" from West Side Story	Quality of Life Award Finalist (Top 7)

2004	Megan Bushell	Wichita	22	Miss Wheat Capital	Vocal "When You Say You Love Me"	Top 10	Quality of Life Award Finalist

2003	Angelea Busby	Lenexa	21	Miss Cheney Lake	Interpretive Baton Twirling / Dance "Theme from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves"	Non-finalist Talent Award

2002	Jeanne Anne Schroeder	Hutchinson	24	Miss Chisholm Trail	Classical Vocal "Time To Say Goodbye"

2001	Kimberlee Grice	Ulysses	23	Miss Kaw Valley	Vocal "At Last"	Eleanor "Big Mama" Andrews Performing Arts Award

2000	Amy Lea Shaw	Derby	22	Miss Arkansas Valley	Classical Piano "Prelude, Op. 23, No. 5"

1999	Leah Darby	Derby	21	Miss Derby	Vocal "I Dreamed a Dream"

1998	Jennifer Vannatta	Leawood	24	Miss Greater Kansas City	Vocal "Le Jazz Hot" from Victor/Victoria	Co-director of the Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma state pageants for the Miss USA organization

1997	Lesley Moss	Hoxie	24	Miss Greater Kansas City	Vocal "You'll Have to Swing It"

1996	Jennifer Parks	Wichita	Miss Arkansas Valley	N/A	3rd runner-up at Miss Kansas 1996 pageant Assumed title when Holland became Miss America 1997 and other runners-up declined the title

Tara Dawn Holland	Overland Park	23	Miss Flint Hills	Classical Vocal "Où Va la Jeune Hindoue" from Lakmé	Winner	Preliminary Swimsuit Award Quality of Life Award 1st runner-up	Previously crowned National Sweetheart 1995 as Miss Florida

1995	Amy Keller	Great Bend	24	Miss Heartland	Classical Vocal "Quando me'n vo'"	Top 10	Preliminary Swimsuit Award

1994	Trisha Schaffer	Liberal	22	Miss Southwest	Popular Vocal "Orange Colored Sky"	Top 10	Preliminary Talent Award

1993	Lori Minnix	Lawrence	24	Miss KU/Lawrence	Classical Piano "Piano Concerto No. 1 in B Flat Minor"

1992	Pamela McKelvy	Kansas City	24	Miss Greater Kansas City	Popular Vocal "I Am Changing"	3rd runner-up	Preliminary Talent Award

1991	Robbin Lee Wasson	Lenexa	21	Miss Greater Kansas City	Vocal Medley "How Long Has This Been Going On?" & "It's a Miracle"	Top 10

1990	Kimberly Dugger	Wichita	22	Miss Wichita	Semi-classical Vocal "Love Is Where You Find It"	Non-finalist Talent Award

1989	Jennifer Lyn Hedrick	Derby	22	Miss Fort Scott	Flute Solo "Carman Fantasy" Bizet Borne

1988	Candice Cae Pyle	Dodge City	20	Miss Dodge City	Vocal "Blue Moon"

1987	Sherri Lee Mayer	Brewster	26	Miss Harvey County	Dramatic Interpretation "Clear Glass Marbles" from Talking With...

1986	Heather Lynn Clark	Benton	23	Miss Wichita	Vocal & Sign Language "I'll Never Say Goodbye"

1985	Carolyn Jo Kirgis	Salina/Beloit	25	Miss Blue Stem	Vocal "Our Love Is Here to Stay"

1984	Nancy Lee Cobb	Wichita	20	Miss Lawrence	Piano / Vocal "I Love New Orleans Music"

1983	Laura Lynn Watters	Colby	22	Miss Troia-Thomas County	Trumpet Medley "Sugar Blues" & "Wood Chopper's Ball"	Non-finalist Talent Award

1982	Lisa Marie Berwick	Valley Center	21	Miss Wheatland	Vocal "Battle Hymn of the Republic"

1981	Dawn Holmstrom	Wichita	20	Miss Wichita	Vocal Medley "My Man" & "Happy Days Are Here Again"

1980	K. Leann Folsom	Wichita	21	Miss Center City	Piano / Vocal "Kiss Me In the Rain"

1979	Michelle Elaine Whitson	Mission	21	Miss Topeka	Harp Solo "Never on Sunday"	2nd runner-up

1978	Lori Ann Bergen	Salina	20	Miss Salina	Violin Solo "Csárdás" & "Orange Blossom Special"	Top 10	Preliminary Talent Award

1977	Jill Dirks	Wichita	22	Miss Wichita	Vocal "Open Your Heart"	Non-finalist Talent Award

1976	Linda Hall	Hill City	21	Miss Frontier	Piano Solo "Theme from The Apartment"	Wife of former U.S. Senator Tom Daschle

1975	Jana Lynn Salmans	Hanston	20	Miss Dodge City	Vocal "Follow Me"

1974	Karen Dianne Smith	Shawnee	18	Miss Shawnee	Jazz / Acrobatic Dance "The Entertainer"	Non-finalist Talent Award Preliminary Swimsuit Award	Toured with Miss America USO Troupe

1973	Jane Schulte	Hays	21	Miss Fort Hays State College	Vocal Medley "Happiest Girl in the Whole USA" & "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face"

1972	Cynthia Sikes	Coffeyville	18	Miss Wichita	Vocal "Fame"	Top 10	Preliminary Swimsuit Award	Starred as Dr. Annie Canavero on St. Elsewhere Toured with Miss America USO Troupe

1971	Sandy Rings	Topeka	20	Miss Topeka	Vocal / Ventriloquism "Toyland"	Top 10	Preliminary Talent Award

1970	Linda Susan Edds	Manhattan	21	Miss Manhattan	Popular Vocal "The Windmills of Your Mind"

1969	Margo Sue Schroeder	Hillsboro	18	Miss Marion County Fair	Piano Solo "Sunny"

1968	Jane Kathryn Bair	Parsons	18	Miss Kansas State College of Pittsburg	Ballet Interpretation "My Friend the Sea"

1967	Kandee Kae Kline	Tribune	Miss Garden City	N/A	Assumed title when Barnes became Miss America 1968

Debra Dene Barnes	Moran	20	Miss Kansas State College of Pittsburg	Piano Solo "Born Free"	Winner	Preliminary Swimsuit Award

1966	Betty Louise Fox	Emporia	20	Miss Emporia	Popular Vocal Medley "A Foggy Day" & "The Girl from Ipanema"

1965	Mimi Frink	Lawrence	Miss Eudora	N/A	Assumed title when Bryant became Miss America 1966

Deborah Irene Bryant	Overland Park	19	Miss Overland Park	Dramatic Interpretation "The Miserable Miserliness of Midas Moneybags"	Winner	Preliminary Swimsuit Award

1964	Catherine Bergstrom	Kansas City	21	Miss Lawrence	N/A	1st Runner-up at Miss Kansas 1964 Assumed title after Savage was killed in an auto accident

Sharon Margene Savage	Florence	20	Miss Marion County Fair	Vocal "Johnny One Note" & "Ritorna Vincitor" from Aida	During her reign she was killed in an auto accident near Peabody, Kansas

1963	Karen Raye Schwartz	Pratt	20	Miss Wichita	Classical Vocal "Voi la Sapete" from Cavalleria rusticana	Non-finalist Talent Award	Featured performer at Miss America 1964 telecast

1962	Beverly June Wood	Prairie Village	18	Miss Kansas City	Charleston Dance

1961	Carolyn Jane Parkinson	Scott City	20	Miss Lawrence	Musical Reading "Hello Kansas"

1960	Gayla Leigh Shoemake	El Dorado	19	Miss El Dorado	Original Dramatic Interpretation "Rude Awakening"

1959	Sharon O'Neal	Kansas City	18	Miss Kansas City	Dramatic Interpretation	Non-finalist Talent Award

1958	Sharon Whitacre	Mission	18	Miss Kansas City	Accordion Solo "3rd Movement of Concerto in A" by Pietro Deiro

1957	Georgiana Rundle	Axtell	21	Miss Kansas State	Vocal "Habanera" & "Getting to Know You"

1956	Mary Ann McGrew	Wellington	19	Miss Lawrence	Dramatic Reading "Understanding Others"	3rd runner-up (tie)

1955	Gail White	Arkansas City	Piano

1954	Phyllis Danielson	Wichita	Vocal

1953	Joann Milnar	Hutchinson	Water Ballet

1952	Kay Ann Goforth	McPherson	Vocal / Dance

1951	No Kansas representative at Miss America pageant

1950	Anabel Baker	Wichita	Drama "Lady Macbeth"

1949	Shirley Hargiss	Topeka	Vocal "Cecilia On a See-Saw"	Top 15

1948	Vera June Ralston	Wichita	18	Miss Wichita	Oratory	3rd runner-up	Preliminary Swimsuit Award	Better known as film and television actress Vera Miles, whose career spanned 45 years, from 1950 to 1995

1947	Ruth Ellen Richmond	Fort Scott	Miss Pittsburg	Vocal "My Wonderful One"

1946	Joyce Blakemore	Liberal

1945	No Kansas representative at Miss America pageant

1944	Grace Louise Pittman	Wichita

1943	No Kansas representative at Miss America pageant

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1939	Rosemary Winslow	Salina

1938	Blanche Webb	Humboldt

1937	Lucia Benton	Norton	Top 16

1936	No Kansas representative at Miss America pageant

1935

1934	No pageant was held

1933	Pauline Sayre	23

1932	No pageants were held

1931

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1928

1927	Mildred Orr	Miss Wichita	No Miss Kansas Competed as Miss Wichita at Miss America pageant

1926	Ruth Richardson	Miss Wichita

1925	Wildeana Withers	Miss Wichita

1924	Donna Frye	Miss Wichita

1923	No Kansas representative at Miss America pageant

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Hannah Klaassen of Arkansas City was crowned Miss Kansas 2018.

final_sentence: Hannah Klaassen of Arkansas City was crowned Miss Kansas 2018.